new website
my new and improved website is up with lots of new content! including a preview of my new book Crescendo, which i'll share more of soon.
View ArticleCrescendo, a new book
I finally have some time to share my new book with you! It's a story written by my dear friend Susanna, based on an idea for a book that i had started working on about 5 years ago. I'd come up with an...
View Articlethe jewish ghetto of venice: animations
here is a teaser of the animations I worked on with Amopix and Tangram film as part of the documentary: "500 years of the Ghetto of Venice". The documentary tells the story of the history of the first...
View Articlegood food for corriere della sera
three illustrations I did for last friday's Corriere della Sera. they publicize the foodie event cibo a regola d'arte which tool place last weekend in Milan.
View Articleanimation backgrounds
just a few of the hundreds of drawings i made as backgrounds for a series of animations made as a collaboration with mosaic films before christmas. more about that soon.
View Articlesketchbook
playing with pencils, watercolours and straight inks. also practicing hiragana, just for fun.
View Articlea book, a book fair.
a little sneakpeek of an illustration from my new book with Zoolibri, coming out this year. I can't wait to show you more, it was a beautifully simple, poetic text and a real wonder to illustrate. I'm...
View Articlea little preview of the next book
a little preview of the work behind the book I made last year for Kids Can Press. It's about political activist and freer of child workers Mother Jones. It comes out in September!
View Articlenew work
here's the first of a new series of paintings and illustrations i am preparing for an exhibition later this year. very weird but nice to be painting on big spaces again after a long time. will keep...
View Articledontshare animation
a couple of still frames from the animated paper cut video Gianluca and I made for the recently launched Dontshare, a life deposit box where you can leave a piece of yourself before you leave for...
View Articlemother jones, a book.
last year I worked on a historical book about mother jones and the march for working children's rights. Written by Monica Kulling, It has recently come out with Kids Can Press. Here are some spreads...
View Articlea girl and a lizard
a little peek into what i'm working on at the moment! this book still has a long journey to make til it sees the light of day. it's been interesting working out of my comfort zone with all these...
View Articlewalk in the woods
back from two months spent in australia seeing family, basking in the sun and wind, not wanting to leave. back to my desk in rome, planning the next two books or maybe three, thankful for the cold...
View Articlegrandpa's white hair, a book.
the wait is over! finally, my book with Mauro Scarpa published by Zoolibri is out. It's my first Italian picture book. When the publisher sent me this story i knew immediately that i wanted to...
View ArticleI don't draw, a book.
My latest book came out last week, written by Adam Lehrhaupt, published by Simon & Shuster. I'd like to tell you a little bit about the making of this book! The whole project came about when my...
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