about
hello!
fede, nice to meet you.
Freelance.
Designer.
Illustrator.
Front-end.
I was drawing long before I called it work.
The rest came along so I could understand better what I was drawing.
The path
Every project teaches me to look harder at the next one.
Drawing was the starting point. Then came publishing, graphic design and the web.
Now I use all of it at once, without worrying much about the labels.
Drawing
Everything starts there.
Publishing
It taught me rhythm.
Front-end
It taught me structure.
Illustration
It taught me concision.
outside the studio
The things that interest me end up in the work sooner or later.
I went to a classics-based secondary school in Florence, then studied Communication and Fine Arts in Bologna.
I have lived in Germany and travelled in Asia, and I read a lot of comics.
Drawing is still the most direct way I know of understanding things.
collaborations
I like working with people who put love into what they do.
Andrea Castelletti / Matteo Cuppone / Mirror Production / Fabiana Bonucci Studio / Agenzia Lama / La Pivot / Giuls Design / Altrevelocità / Scribing.it / Eta Florence
exhibitions and awards
Now and then the work leaves the studio.
Poster Heroes. A Poster for Integration, Torino Graphic Days Festival, Turin, 2019
Sabotage, Cheap Festival, Bologna, 2019
10×10=21, Officine Fotografiche Milano, Milan, 2017
Graphic News, Circolo Arci Porco Rosso, Palermo, 2017
Crescere nell’Assurdo, Sala Tassinari – Comune di Bologna, Bologna, 2016
Under(c)over, 10×10, Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna, 2016
Komikazen 99%, MAR, Ravenna, 2013
Nuova Storia d’Italia a fumetti, MAR, Ravenna, 2012
Galileo Galilei, Galileo Galilei Institute, Chongqing, 2012
BITTA RE/generation, Elektrica, Pančevo, 2012
Hanging Art for the Taharir, Sixth Street Community Center, New York City, 2011
Komikazen, Associazione Mirada, Ravenna, 2011
Pentiment, HAW, Hamburg, 2010
Tratti di storia, Sala Partecipanza – Comune di Cento, Cento (FE), 2010
BESTIARIUM MMX, Alliance Française di Bologna, Bologna, 2010
Immagini al di là dell’illustrazione, Blogos, Casalecchio di Reno (BO), 2010
Burp! DeliriGraficoIntestinali, Eureka!, Bologna, 2010
Hi,Q!, Alliance Française di Bologna, Bologna, 2009
Inondarti Vol.II, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Bologna, 2009
Land/Territorio, Galleria Capodilucca, Bologna, 2009
other projects
Not everything I do is called effeemmezeta.
Some work has taken a different route. Collectives, publishing projects, collaborations built around a shared idea. They were not detours: I consider them part of the same path.
If you have a project, tell me about it.
We’ll work out together what shape it could take.