A live backstage

A hundred years have passed since Gabriele d’Annunzio, at the request of Senatore Borletti, renamed the Bocconi department store Rinascente. The poet, not surprisingly used a verb instead of a noun: rinascente is a past participle whose etymology (from Latin partem capit) literally means “to take part”. This is what la Rinascente is about: a reality that took part in the Italian history, interpreting and changing costumes with its constant search for novelty. A verb that expresses an action that repeats itself over time with a surge of constant change.Text by © Simone Tempia✻ To celebrate 100 years of the art of “being Rinascente” and the exhibition STORIES OF INNOVATION, La Rinascente Magazine asked me to reinterpretate the ten letters of the name as a visual introduction to ten brief texts written ad hoc for the occasion by Simone Tempia. The art direction by Oliviero Piccoli and the careful direction by Diletta Dincao (from CondéNast Italia) who put this little all star team together has been flawless, as usual. Letters behind characters (typo spoiler alert!) are made with the gorgeous Bianco Serif Heavy by Alfatype. 

in this May’s GQ Germany issue you can find the latest piece I’ve made for the COUCH section about Small Talk for Winners. 

Hope you’ll enjoy watching it as much as I’ve enjoyed drawing it. Always thanks to Jana Meier-Roberts for such fun assignments.

Had the pleasure of working with the super careful Lizzie Hart (AD) at this piece for the Wash Post last month and know more about Cameron Mackintosh, the producer behind most of the all time BroadwayBusters Plays of the last couple of decades. 

Illustratore Italiano is a bilingual (ita/eng) magazine made by three talented, committed and full of enthusiasm guys that I like very much. I like very much both, the mag as well as the guys!

Hence I’m very proud to be part -along with a squad of super illustrators- of ILIT #5 with couple of illustrated contributions. See (and read) with your eyes what solid and nice mag it is by ordering a copy through their store here.

Cover is by Marco Goran Romano, and if you still don’t know him hey, here's a link to make amend for it.

Time to take back control on this channel, after almost 2 years of laziness.

Coincidences: In the last couple of months I’ve been commissioned twice by the same magazine, The Washington Post, to make an opening Illustration and a spot one for two different issues/sections of the newspaper. AD were different and I’ve my reason to believe (too long and boring to explain it here) each one of the two art director doesn’t know I’ve worked with the other.

Funny thing is theme were pretty much the same, even if treated from a different point of view each time. First Date was basically the main theme here.

An extra has been a series of three mini line-drawing illustrations depicting the suggested path form the perfect 1st to the 3rd date. 

Bonus track to this post: one of the sketches that didn’t make the cut. I’d would have liked to see it finalized despite the chosen cover thrilled me as well. I’m sure I’ll bring this to the final stage for my own pleasure as soon as I’ve a bit of free time and no deadlines.

ain't scared no more by Winter. On my Behance page a new gallery full of tips on how to stay warm in the coolest season of the year. Hope you'll enjoy it and that you’ll find some of those tips useful. If so please let me know.

The full series (plus couple of extra spots) have been commissioned few months ago by The New Yorker. Being part of the mag has been as usual a thrilling challenge and an honor at the same time.

I recently took part to an exquisite exhibition in Salsomaggiore named after the very same city thanks to Fabio Toninelli, The Man behind Tapirulan - The show will stay on until July the 31st in Palazzo Detraz, Via Bacchelli 9. I'm in such good company with other 19 talents. In this modern map of Salsomaggiore recreated through some of the city's most famous icons I've been so lucky to have been assigned to represent Miss Italia. The giant M above is my contribution.

Below is the cover made for the show by the illustrious ©Guido Scarabottolo

All the detailed infos are here on the official Facebook Page of the Show:

I’m one of the worst person when it comes to keep my webpage up to date. Though sometimes I collect a few of my latests and put together a gallery on Behance. The theme, in this case, is about the pieces I’ve done in the past year or so for editorial clients, which basically means magazines and newspapers.