I’m incredibly happy to share my latest achievement. Doing a cover for the amazing Washington Post means a lot to me. Especially now, while I’m on chemotherapy and slowly reconnecting myself to my creativity, my enthusiasm and my deep deep optimism. Thank you to AD Christian Font for making this small dream come true, Francesca Riz for helping me out with last touches, Gabriele Rossi, Kisophelia and Annie Hopengarten Mooreville for retrieving me a copy. That’s all folks, stay safe healthy!⁠⠀

New Years spots on the New Yorker Mag.
Happy new years to all of my friends scattered around Europe / Us, to my beloved Italian family and to all the people who I worked with during this weird weird weird 2020! Thank you Sunshtine ( Fuck you Saturn).

Would you let a robot walk your dog? My take on robotics and artificial intelligence on the special innovators issue of the The New Yorker

On the Newyorker mag for a piece by Nahan Heller which is about Virtual Assistant Apps. Virtual PA do things like filing expenses by intercepting email and finding all receipts to file. Basically all the boring things everyone hates to do.

“The first time i looked at a block of code and understood what was happening, I felt like a genius.” (Slide to get through all the tiny details of this and see the messy draft)⁣

⁣Had the pleasure of illustrating Anna Wiener’s excerpt of her upcoming book “Uncanny Valley: A Memoir” for The New Yorker, which was an overwhelming journey of translating on paper what her experience was while working in Silicon Valley for a tech startups. @newyorkermag

⁣Thank you Michaelov Aviva as usual for the thoughtful art direction

Various illustrations for Daily Shouts column on The New Yorker website. Art Direction Kara Haupt.

The article is from Jia Tolentino on The New Yorker, it is a reflection on distraction in the digital age that come from constant and bothersome socials notification. Animated by Lorenzo Fonda. Art direction by Aviva Michaelov.

⁣Glad to be featured again on the The New Yorker! ⁣⁣⁣⁣This one is for Sarah Mancuso piece reviewing Darcey Steinke’s book “Flash Count Diary” offering a new perspective on menopause, a true emancipation for aging women. ⁣⁣⁣⁣Relaxing animation by Lorenzo Fonda.

On the Newyorker mag illustration on The Kitchen Sisters podcast by Radiotopia: the very eclectic podcast gives a voice to so many interesting and unusual stories told by a always different host.

llustration on an article by Jia Tolentino.
It’s clear that the personal essay boom is over.
But first-person essays began to proliferate several years ago and everybody seemed to hate them.
Art Direction Kara Haupt

My cover for Interni Magazine, transforming subway cars on the occasion of the NY Design Week 2019. International issue in English and Italian, you can find it in NY too.

The New York Times asked me to come up with some ideas to illustrate their guide "How to Solve the NYT Crosswords". This Cubical Puzzle City and its habitants are animated by the talented Lorenzo Fonda.Please visit thearticleon the New York Times website to see the animations and the illustration set laid out.

My illustration for the New York Times Website about annoying Facebook Notifications

Illustration for David Abram's piece on The New York Times.

An article about politicians taking advantage of veterans for their own campaigns.

It's been a great pleasure for me to create these illustrations for Jessica Delfino’s "The Parent’s Real Guide To Summer 'Fun'", an article filled with suggestions on how to get the most out of your summer if you have kids. The article is very fun (for non-parents too) and it's online now on Parenting section of The New York Time⁠

Two men rigged a $160,000 pigeon race in China last year by smuggling birds aboard a bullet train during the race.

The NYT Book Review 3

Review by Judith Shulevitz on “Natural Causes” by Barbara Ehrenreich.
The book views excessive health measures (preventive medical screenings, concepts of wellness, mindfulness, dietary fads fitness culture) as overwrought and committed to supplying an ongoing cultural cycle of denial in the wake of the inevitability of death regardless of how healthy we are.

Art Direction Matthew Dorfman

John Grisham is best known for his popular legal thrillers.
But with his “Camino Island”, out on June 2017, he is taking a vacation from writing his usual novels.
Starring a precious Fitzgerald’s manuscript, a shady beachfront book dealer and a writer who's dispatched to find out more about him.
Art Direction Matthew Dorfman

Very simple brief: Coroutines are computations which allow the developers to write more concise, asynchronous code to handle more computationally intensive tasks.
Asynchronous code introduce "sleep" and “delay” in functions of code as they run. A "builder" accepts the suspending functions as parameters which define the coroutine.

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Spot Illustrations for Monocle Magazine, special issue on the famous furniture fair Salone del Mobile 2019, Milan.

ForMonocle Winter Issue. I also wrote some thumbnails to explain this a bit :)
1) This Christmas treat yourself well and revisit one of the television classics.
2) In the UK Christmas businesses used to close down for twelve days during 1500 and Puritans thought that this was both a waste and a sin and they banned Christmas for a decade.
3) Forget summer. Be a responsible tourist and visit in winter for an undiluted Athenian experience. It’s cheaper and cooler but it’s also far more charming
4) Forget glitzy chalets, it’s the family-owned Alpine stopovers that hit the highest heights
5) “Heise” Japan’s imperial era means “realizationof peace” and Emperor Akihito was the ruler of it. he represents compassion, honesty and kindness; he has become the symbol of the nation. But he is due to abdicate at the end of April 2019. Peace!
6) What means “Fog of war” during the Era of Social Media.

Monthly Column for Raven Smith’s articles on The Soho House Magazine.. various funny topics..

Some oldies but goodies!⁠
Last year MAKE IT WORK column for Soho House⁠ on how brands found solutions to cope with the struggle of pandemic.
Featuring: ⁠Marbleous Boxes⁠, The Grounds⁠, Art Founders Forum⁠.

Le Monde commemorates the anniversary of Charlie Hebdo's attack with a special issue on IS.

These are my visual representations of "Dix mots pour comprendre l’Etat Islamique / Ten words to understand IS".

Buzzfeed denounces cases of sexual harassment in France and in the french show business.

Illustration for Spring edition of Spiegel Magazine.⁣ This comes together with the review of the discussed novel "Motherhood" by Sheila Het. The book is about deciding whether to have a child or not.

Did this for a National Geographic Magazine article back in NY last year, and I found it here in Italy at a newsstand. Funny to see how these little guys move around. BTW one of the paragraphs is about "Tours of the future" and if I'd be in NYC (and could go out) I would be surely joining tours made by Frieda Vizel inside the Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.⁠⠀

Artificial Intelligence in Fashion. Machines can analyse all kind of data and tell/create for you clothes/accessories that you will want to buy :)

Published on Wallpaper Magazine February 2019 Issue. Aiming to explore what design can do to alleviate the devastating damage caused by the human race to the environment and society since the Industrial revolution, ‘Broken nature’ at La Triennale di Milano is curated by Italy-born Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at new York’s MoMA.

Illustration on Drop Culture, hype about it on social media, crazy releases and what makes us want to shop a Drop.#dropculture

For New York Magazine. In New York, monstera-plant-adorned places are very common and they are usually design-oriented stores or cool membership coworking spaces. Now the trend is also spreading through medical startups or practices. In these natural-filled-light places can get your full-body physical, facial treatments on cool Hay armchairs, cryotherapy, acupuncture IV or simply freeze your eggs while drinking a matcha tea surrounded by fiddle-leaf figs.

OnEsquire, first issue of the Italian magazine. ForPhilip Di Salvo’ s piece about how Facebook influenced the outcome of the american elections.

Mr. Thumb Up is my imaginary candidate.

Any resemblance to real events and/or to real persons is purely coincidental.

A series of illustrations on modern pornography.

"Stop lying about your life on social media"
Article by Michael Arceneaux on NBC. Art direction byKara Haupt

Are you flying Economy like I do? What about experiencing BASIC Economic? Article by Michael Arceneaux on NBC. Art direction by Kara Haupt

Quick and small drawings for Die Zeit articles about foreign language teachers with no experience abroad but only theoretical knowledges and Germany groupies in Arab countries.

Illustrations for Die Zeit about german schools: apparently primary schools infrastructures are not that good and some german children still struggle with reading.

2019, the golden year for Women's football / soccer. My illustrations for Les Echos Weekend's analysis of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Art direction by Alice Lagarde

Nowadays you can rent absolutely everything (jewelry, dresses, tools, kitchen utensils…) and this hopefully will change our consumption habits and make our wardrobes and houses more sustainable.

Germany, history and funny facts about this country.
Some small and random details of the latest illustration made for Les Ecos Weekend

Illustrations for an interview with Amy Chua: her regrets and self-critism on Les Échos Weekend. Her book "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" races the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme and strict parenting.

How to help parents to interest their kids into books and make them explore a whole new world.

Series of maps made for La Parisienne Magazine.
Best places to grab a drink, enjoy openairs or sink into gaming in Paris.

Semaphore is a company that is hired under very extreme circumstances to remove the general partner of a financial fund. Art Direction Kymberly Lum.

World’s most interesting and adventurous dishes on Mr. Porter Magazine listed as below:

Blowfish, Japan

Rabbit brains, China

Casu marzu, Italy

Fermented shark, Iceland

Deep-fried tarantula, Cambodia

Stuffed moose heart, Canada

Balut (literally real chicks in egg), Philippines

An Exhaustive (And Ridiculous) Field Guide To Zoom Users.⁣
⁣Featuring:⁣
⁣THE PERSON WHO CAN’T-QUITE-ANGLE-THE-WEBCAM
THE HAPPY LOAFER
THE HOME-GYMER
THE PANDEMIC PICASSO
THE STRIVER
THE SOCIALITE
THE PERSON WHO KNOWS THEIR LIGHTING⁣

Melancholic fountain pen and hyper-active lens forInstitutional Investor website. The article "Confessions of a Content Marketer" is about how the figure of writers/copywriters has morphed into the content marketers. The writer has lost his crown referring to the concept of “content is the king” by Bill Gates. The lens instead stands for new kind of content marketer. He is always in a hurry to research and create new contents that must be always measurable and produce a return on investments.

Illustrations for the Escape Issue of California Sunday Magazine. Four personal stories on how to escape daily routine, family, duties and reality.

Illustration for Social Paper Magazine, brand new Shanghai-based publication exploring designers' journeys from their original vision to the final presentation of a collection. This about questions from a designer to a CEO. Art direction by MMBP.

My cover design for a feminist collective comic book about the woman body, published by Feltrinelli Comics. Curated by Elisabetta Sedda and with a wonderful introduction by Michela Murgia. Comics inside are by Cristina Portolano, Fumettibrutti, Sara Menetti, Margherita Morotti, Alice Socal, Silvia Rocchi, Alice Milani, La Tram and Sara Pavan, some of the most influential female Italian cartoonists.

Is color forecasting a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Who listens to who? Is the research of the decision makers really fundamental for brands and businesses?

Cheerful illustrations for a sad topic: 20 pages of articles and interviews about ending an adult relationship. These are my illustrations for, I still love them even if it’s an old project.

Small illustrations made for Re:porter, which is a travel and lifestyle magazine for Canadian Porter Airlines.

Digital software companies are increasing there presence and are improving the way offices are run and changing the office environment.

Art direction by Winkreative agency.

John Devore’s short story on comfort foods.
The story takes place at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino, before it closed in 2014. Woolly it’s a magazine about food published by McSweeneys’s.
Art direction Sunra Thompson

Series of spot illustrations of suggested fashion items.

Dash Magazine UK, Janury Issue 2014.

Pet therapy, giant slides, yoga classes, spa, swimming pools, dental office, golf courses and wedding chapels are what now big airports offer to their bored or either stressed out passengers. OnIcon Magazine.

On going collaboration with Icon Magazine, monthly column running since 2016. Posted here only a small selection of them.
Art Direction Silvia Carollo / Davies Costacurta.

A selection of a serie of illustrations made for a special issue of Icon Design on the occasion of the Milan Design Fair.
Art Direction Davies Costacurta

Frank Zappa said
"I don't give a fuck if they remember me at all"

But we'll always do.
Illustration for 24 IL Magazine, article about 'Dance Me This,'
the final album recorded by Frank Zappa
before his death in 1993 and his 100th official LP.

Art direction: Francesco Franchi

Who's Don Draper for real?

How this restless character is developed

throughout all the Mad Mens seasons?

Some illustrations for IL, monthly magazine of Sole 24 Ore.

Art direction: Francesco Franchi

Ultimo Uomo is a wise web-project about sport and contemporary pop culture. These are my illustrations for their guide to the NBA.

I’ve been working with Rivista Studio for different enquires. This is a collection of some of the illustrations I did for them in the past two years. Art direction Tommaso Garner

Illustration for Il Tascabile on holidays reading tips.

Do some in-depth reading wherever you are.

Ongoing collaboration with

Rules for women of a successful business lunch.

On Flair Magazine. Art direction SM