Paris vous aime & Légende | No Truce

no truce

paris vous aime &
Légende mag

For the 2024 Paris Olympics, Légende magazine invited me to illustrate a beautiful article by Laurent Gaudé.

“No Truce” is the title of the piece, in which Gaudé reflects on the significance of the Olympic truce during the ancient Greek games.

This truce extended not only to the Olympics but also to other competitions. Such events were so important that they brought “age-old enemies” and “open disputes” to a halt, creating neutral and peaceful ground. Gaudé also explores the absence of such truces in our modern world.

My illustrations, unified by a golden yellow color palette, aim to highlight the value of dedicating space and attention to collective events. These moments bring humanity closer together, fostering a shared sense of unity—something that sadly happens less and less today.

Both artworks are inspired by the aesthetics of ancient Greek paintings.

In the first illustration, located at the top right, I reimagined the concept of Ιερή Εκεχειρία—the Sacred Truce. A winged figure in my piece symbolizes this idea, welcoming both athletes and spectators.

As published in Paris vous aime and Légende magazine.

Courrier International | Mother Earth

MOTHER Earth

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd.

The image below is a tribute to our planet, highlighting the importance of cherishing and preserving it.

Displayed here are the original digital artwork and two simulated posters featuring handwritten fonts.

In 2024, Courrier International featured this piece as a complement to an article on Ayurvedic cosmetics. They were particularly impressed by the image’s freshness.

Here is the link to the article.

Hystrio | Literary characters

literary
characters
on stage

Hystrio

Theater and novel.

Here’s a revised version of your text with some adjustments for clarity and flow:

“A primary source of inspiration for prose theater, opera, musicals, and dance, due to the density of its plots, the complexity of its characters, and the stratification of its languages, the novel in Italy has often been reinterpreted by adapters, dramaturgs, and directors. These adaptations have led to performances that are either illustrative, celebratory, or, conversely, innovative. The key distinction lies in the authors’ ability to shuffle the cards, adapting the forms of literary tradition to their own personal artistic exploration.”

as published in Hystrio mag

Internazionale | Simple melodies

simple melodies

Internazionale

Successful melodies are becoming increasingly simpler.

A study reveals that the compositional complexity of the most popular songs has decreased over the past 70 years.

By Francisco Doménech

Here is the article in italian, as published in Internazionale.

SUMMER People

summer activities

people

This is a present for you! Download the material at this link to play with your creativity. It’s a gift from SMALL ACADEMIA.

My drawing and imagination school project.

UNION IP – Protecting Ideas

tote bags

Union-IP

BEHIND THE SCENE

Union-IP, the Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property, approached me to create an illustration representing their core mission.

For their June 2024 meeting, Union-IP decided to produce tote bags as gifts for their members.

MY IDEA

The drafts began with an exploration of a character. The illustration aimed to capture two key themes: protection and creativity.

The client requested a design that was simple, flat, and visually striking—an image so appealing that members would enjoy using the tote bag even in their free time.

In this project, I focused heavily on the expressiveness of the main character, ensuring that the design remained as simple as possible.

The illustration had to be printed using the two institutional colors of UNION-IP.

I felt particularly connected to this work, given the discussions about rights and intellectual property in the context of emerging AI technologies. Yet, human creativity follows a different path from the technological processes of artificial intelligence.

With this in mind, I aimed to represent the love involved in creation and, naturally, in protection. A sense of care—this was the essence of my work.

Below, you’ll find some sketches, color studies, the final illustration, and the tote bags.

For this project, I worked entirely in vector.

Internazionale – Languages and AI

Languages

Internazionale

Why AI needs to learn new languages. Efforts are under way to make AI fluent in more than just English.

Here is the article in italian.

As published in Internazionale

Le Monde – Temps Réel

Temps Réel

LE monde

BEHIND THE SCENE

The creative editorial team at Le Monde reached out to me to provide a commentary, accompanied by one of my drawings, on the release of Temps Réel, a collection of poems by the French-speaking poet Jean-Christophe Bailly, published by Editions du Seuil.

Here is the article by Fabrice Gabriel

MY IDEA

At first, I envisioned a more classical interpretation of the Muse, as described in Gabriel’s article, who encounters the poet. However, Bailly’s work revolves around the idea that poetry, with its unconventional nature, is an ongoing journey.
His verses unfold one after another, much like the landscape passing by outside a train window.

Thus, his poetic language becomes an autonomous, evolving organism.

I aimed to convey this idea of a succession of events, landscapes, and emotions, while still offering a slightly didactic and classical interpretation of the ‘poet’ and of poetry itself.

Internazionale – Notes of Loneliness

Notes on Loneliness

Internazionale

Notes on Loneliness in the Age of Social Media

Lovink observes that despite 5.2 billion users being online, the Internet doesn’t feel crowded. Paradoxically, social media fosters a semblance of social connection that often manifests as isolation and loneliness.

This brings forth the idea of ‘interpassive’ users—individuals who contribute data while remaining largely passive in their engagement.

And this is interpassivity introduced by Slavoj Žižek.

Here the original article by Geert Lovink, as published in Internazionale.

Internazionale | Chemicals in plastics

plastic chemicals

Internazionale

Scientists funded by the Norwegian Research Council have compiled a list of more than 16,000 “plastic chemicals”: compounds found in or used in plastic, including raw ingredients, stabilizers and colorants. The report recommends that companies be more transparent about what’s in their plastic, for everyone’s health.

Here the original article by Nicola Jones

As published in Internazionale

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