November 26-28, 2021

Mauro Bubbico was born in Montescaglioso (Matera) where he lives and works as graphic designer since 1986. His favorite field is design for education and environmental sustainability. Along the years his interests and his research on places and inhabitants has brought him to define an incisive and contemporary graphic language capable to narrate and enhance them, favoring their social, economic and cultural development. In his vision graphic design is primarily the ability to build great narrations. He teaches Graphic Design at ISIA Urbino, ad ISIA in Faenza, at Abadir school in Catania and at Free University Bozen-Bolzano. He is member of AIAP, the main graphic designer association Italian, and AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Charles Ferris, Canadian born in Toronto, trumpeter and ethnomusicologist, arrives in Italy as a Fulbright scholar with a research on the traditions and songs of the South. Since he started studying classical music in the United States forty years ago, he has crossed almost every musical genre. As a young student he was honored in New York City as a soloist in the Music Teachers National Association's national competition. At the age of 18, he won The Louisville Orchestra's Young Artist Competition and played as a soloist with the orchestra that made the history of twentieth century American music.
With an Afro-Cuban orchestra he toured all the salsa clubs in San Francisco while during the day he studied jazz and contemporary improvisation with Myra Melford, Fred Frith, Henry Threadgill and Steve Coleman.
He has played in numerous Balkan music projects, rock, jazz, funk, blues, and contemporary impromptu and popular music ensembles. The common thread that unites the different range of genres and musical projects in which he has played is research, originality and a certain aptitude for improvisation.
In Italy since 2006, he has collaborated with hundreds of musicians in numerous bands: Sineterra, Marcello Giannini, Badara Sek, Francesco Forni, E Zezi, and began a long path of study of classical and popular Tunisian music alongside Marzouk Mejri with which he founded, Fanfara Station in 2015, together with the producer and beat-maker Ghiaccioli e Branzini.

Costanza Ciattini is a freelance artist based in Florence. She graduated in design at ISIA Florence, in addition to working as stand and set designer together with Elisabetta Nazzi Atelier, she creates works of art using the three-dimensional collage technique. Over the years she has exhibited her works at the Cartavetra gallery, the Student Hotel and during private events. She has also created illustrations for independent magazines and books.

Irene Manetti is a Visual Designer graduated in Communication Design in Milan, where she lived for five years. Working with a curious mind, she loves essential lines, visual balance and geometry. In her work she often uses a ibrid language between graphic design and illustration. Since 2020, she works with Elisa Basilissi on the creative direction of Calimaia Collettivo.

Calimaia is a collective of florentine Graphic Designers and Illustrators. Calimaia’s mission is
to provide a space for emerging young artists and to promote Visual Design in Florence.
The collective organises various actievities, for example design workshops, exhibitions and
collaborations with artists from Italy.

Gianluca Patti is a creative focused on illustration, storytelling and animation. He was born in Sicily and he's a graduate of ISIA Urbino's MA in Illustration and Animation. Currently based in Florence, he spends his days drawing as Illustrator for Le Cube animation studio and whizzing to the city with his single speed bike.

Juan Huarte is a nomad animator from Argentina who is collecting new experiences around Europe. He is a tireless traveler and he alternates freelance activities with his work as animator for Art&Graft studio in London.

Andrea Rauch has designed posters and exhibitions and illustrated books. He has produced graphics for institutions such as the Venice Biennale, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Union of the Theatres of Europe, Greenpeace and Unicef. Co-founder of the Graphiti visual communication studio (Florence, 1983-1993), between 1975 and 1989 he participated, together with partner Stefano Rovai, in the Italian graphic design movement Grafica di Pubblica Utilità. In his professional career Rauch designed more than 700 posters that are in the collections of the MoMA in New York, the Musée de la Publicité in Paris and the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurigo.He has taught graphic design at the Course in Communication Sciences of the University of Siena and History of Graphic Design at the IED Firenze.

Calimaia is a collective of florentine Graphic Designers and Illustrators. Calimaia’s mission is
to provide a space for emerging young artists and to promote Visual Design in Florence.
The collective organises various actievities, for example design workshops, exhibitions and
collaborations with artists from Italy.

Francesco Ciaponi, graduate in the history of the print and the publishing industry at the University of Pisa with a thesis entitled “Beat World: the rise of underground publishing in Italy”.
In 2010 establishes, together with Andrea Pacini, Italian Poster Rock Art, the italian archive for poster art.
Since 2016 he has been managing the Edizioni del Frisco website, which starting from 2017 became a publishing house specialized in graphics books and independent publishing.
In 2019 he gave birth, teaming with Concretipo Studio, to the Friscospeaks magazine project, a jam session of graphic designers with a clear underground soul.
He published different books, among which: “The Big Lebowski Art Collection” and “Underground: rise and fall of another publishing”.
In 2019 his latest book “Jack: an illustrated biography” was published by Goodfellas; the first biography of the famous actor ever written in Italian.

Tommaso Bovo deals with graphics, packaging, and typography. He was a graphic designer and art director for the Cisotti Laube, Archea Associati, and Studio Doni & Associati studios. He worked for magazines such as Area, Materia and d’Architettura. He founded Tommaso Bovo – Graphics studio in 2015. He has lectured at the University of Florence Faculty of Architecture, has taught at the University of the Republic of San Marino, the Faculty of Design, and is currently a professor at the European Institute of Design – IED in the courses of Graphic Design and Methodology of the project. He writes for Domus, Frizzifrizzi, INTERNI, Artribune, Klat Magazine: he deals with graphics, communication, and product design criticism. He won the Treccani Web Award in 2016 dedicated to the best articles selected by the Treccani editorial staff for “quality and innovation”.

ierfilippo Ariano is a Digital Art Director who works at Be.Family, an agency based in Venice and Florence. With over 10 years of experience in creating digital products, his work is a blend of different disciplines: Product Design, Editorial Design, UX Design.
Since 2019 he is Sketch Advocate for Italy and professor of UI / UX Design at IUSVE - University of communication design in Venice and Verona.

Simone Massoni is an artist dealing with everything he finds visually stimulating.
After starting his career as a children's book illustrator, he moved his interests to be aligned more with visual design and arts. You can find his latest explorations in books, magazines, advertising commercials and shows, mainly in the US and Europe. He is currently living and working in Florence, Italy.
Clients include among others: Ferragamo, Facebook, Kiehl's, Net-A-Porter, The New Yorker, The New York Times.

Maria Chiara is a designer and lettering artist based in Florence, where she lives and works. Her elegant and intricate creations are deeply influenced by her love for the history of art: in particular she loves to look at the refinement of the Florentine Renaissance and the decorative works of the designers of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Laura Moretti is the owner of the graphic design studio that bears her name. She has also been an educator since 2004 and teaches at IED Firenze since 2009. She has curated exhibitions and organized workshops on graphic design and traditional printing. Experimentation, research and innovation are the values that determine her design choices. She is the creator and co-curator of the international AIAP Women in Design Award (AWDA). Her brand identity for AWDA was selected to compete for the Compasso d'Oro 2018 award.

Camilla Pieri deals with events, culture and communication, constantly looking for everything that she likes to define "highly improbable", she gets lost in brochures, fonts and meanings, a lover of constant search for meaning and with a strong attachment to the social. In 2019 she founded, together with Claudia Pasquini and Olivia Balestrino, Collettivo Loredana, a collective that deals with promoting talent, creativity and the network between women who make art.

Gionatan Fiondella is an Illustrator and activist, who grew up in Latina. During his studies of Illustration, he approaches political militancy, first in his local territory then in Rome. Through the Queer Fest in Latina he met the "Conigli Bianchi" (White Rabbits), a collective of artivists who use art to disseminate themes related to safer sex with a focus on HIV and stigma.
In the collective, which has become his political house, he immediately dealt mainly with communication and design having the pleasure of working with many Italian associations, participating in the organization of events and communication campaigns, including: Anlaids, Lila, Circolo of homosexual culture Mario Mieli, Arcigay, Asa, Milano checkpoint, SWIPE, Ombrerosse and others.

Nicola Giorgio is a a freelance illustrator based in Florence and part of Muttnik collective

Daniele Tabellini works with his wife Erika Gabbani in the communication and art studio nasonero.studio, and involved in an art research practice tellerk.com. From 2013 to 2020 he was art director of Lcd in Florence, where his work in 2015 received an Honorable Mention at the Compasso d 'Oro International Award. He was the promoter and member of the Steering Committee for the Design Guidelines for the PA Websites. Since October 2020 he has been appointed as an expert UI / UX designer at the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Since 2013 he has held advanced interaction design laboratories for the master's degree at UNIRSM Design, University of the Republic of San Marino.

The Linocut workshop is organized by the Il Bisonte Foundation, a historic Florentine atelier and school that since 1959 deals with printmaking; it offers a wide variety of practical courses; hosts artists in residence; organizes exhibitions and events; has a library with over three thousand volumes and holds a searchable collection of more than five thousand prints.

Debora Manetti, together with Francesco Canovaro and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, is founder and creative director of Ligature Srl and Studio Kmzero. Both brands focus, in different ways, on the culture of branding and typography, for the international market and for Italian companies.