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Hello
my name is Margherita
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This site is an endless, WORK IN PROGRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS website that doesn’t care of standards, order, definitions or clarity!
Sorry!

Here you can expect:
(1) Badly documented, never complete nor up-to-date YET professional work.
(2) Personal work consisting of scribbles, poems, scans...
(3) Lots of sillyness and love.
(1), (2) and (3) are all mixed below in no specific order.

FREE
PALESTINE

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I really like dolphins, especially when they jump

Me aged 6 dressed like Pippi Longstocking.

Enjoy some proper Italian old school romance x

4 EVER & EVER

LOVE

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Notes
O N L O V E
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09 02 26
Dropping bricks around bim bam boom.
Just like that, just like fluff from the hat.
Fucking hell it’s me in February;
Spring palette.
Lighter at every step.
Centre at the centre of the centre.
Smiles, light blues, red flowers huge.
Round the streets the lampposts no ghosts.
Ha! I’m a shimmering flower of gold.
You can kiss my ass, my armour, my swords!

18 12 25
Vita di formaggio
Mi scordo tutto
Lo mordo dal frigo
Schiaccio tutto verso il fondo, nel buio volo.
Occhiali da sole, buchi, parole zitte tutte.
Cuore grosso come il mondo, tanto ho il pugnale del sultano fermo in mano.

5 12 25
Still on my hill — full armour.
Silver quiet,
LOL,
Coke Diet.
Chewing gum,
spitting gum,
Girls just wanna have fun.
Maybe I should but still got no plan.
You,
disturbing my tempo with whisper of flies,
You’re so fucking lento and i don’t trust your eyes.
Shit,
Could’ve been it:
a countryside dream,
hearts on steam,
Serie A team.
/ Salads, walls, microwaves, thorns.
/ Love is a losing game unless you have a jewel dagger in your pocket and a decent aim.

29 07 25
Woodworm. Dot in all corners.
Angles, centimetres; twisted towards;
We have stars in the eyes, sun in the chest and you’re an apricot, a biscuit, a dolphin jumping on loop forever and ever at the centre of my heart.
But too slow is the dance of the snails. I trip on my knots and all over trails.
What why when who?
Toot toot
I speak the tongue of the boot!

20 06 25
Heart.
Stop the war.
Passing minutes well.
Thinking of the world.
My grandparents up in the sky.
Shit and bliss, scrambled.
Help, these pants are on fire! All of East London is covered in smoke!
Kisses of peace.
Frogs, spiders, cockroaches.
An orange sunset.
Damn shit la police.

13 06 25
Dove?
Spariti i tasselli non c’è più niente, nero di tastiera.
Sperare no, parete liscia, non ci si aggrappa.
Scivoli, sei olio tra le mani.
Io vorrei che fossi un sasso.

(Unknwon date)
Memo:
If it feels heavy, difficult, it’s weighing u down, if it’s too stressful, if there’s no joy in it, if it’s not serene, drop it – let it go – move on – turn page – shut the door and grow rich within the room, jump on a train and find yuourself fresh and new once again.

21 04 25
Caro foglio volante,
la vita prende le sue pieghe
--- basta uno strappo e rimanere a guardare
Tutt’attorno scivolare
Rimbalzare, srotolarsi
soffici nelle capriole
finisco tra i tuoi capelli con la mano per un attimo e troppo sotto alla luna a sentirne l’eco
Tutt’attorno alle orecchie in assenza
Quanto dura il tempo,
torna

07 01 25
Circles! squares! diagonals! red! blue! green, pink, yellow! orange! maroon!
Trees and seas and disco nights! and all the animals that escaped from the zoo.

03 04 25
Perdente nell’acqua nera della notte brillano i tuoi occhi ma non sei tu è la luce della gru e buca il petto che non sa

29 12 24
L’altra sera:
Sussurri di cappotto e ricci perfetti, ma c’è troppo rumore e non capisco un piffero.
Zitti gli occhi e le parole si ingarbugliano nell’ordinario
Spirale senza senso ti attorcigli nei giorni molli di tempo
Io sola ho tutto e le tigri sono sempre con me ma per te nel cuore ho le stelle, i tramonti e i delfini. Maledetti cancelli.

28 09 24
Today
the curve of the eyelids matches the horizon
I’m the quiet giant of the valley
Thank you universe for sunshine and cheese
In the grass I understand
16 09 24
Fuck la police
I am and the tigers with me
Who what why when
Big and light in the chest
Until hello how are you the theatre is on

05 09 24
I am sweet but i take no shit
Just put those eyes away and let me be
Now i’m truly free
Wow can this be it
(wind)

15 08 24
le cose che diventano elastiche e si allungano ma sono di caucciù e non si spezzano mai, sono vestita in un’ armatura di metalli intarsiati argento oro e rame, fiori e rami antichi, il viso coperto da un elmo, ferma sulla collina, crine bianco in testa ondeggia leggero, ferma, spada a lato, un cavallo sotto ma quello non importa, vieni qui se vuoi e mostrati, io parlo con gli alberi e degli uomini non mi fido, ti ascoltero’ in silenzio.
tetti, il corvo non c’entra niente col cielo, blu leggero, tutto silenzio neanche il tram
sei tu

23 07 24
essenza dentro a tutto non ci sono i puntini, tutto tratti tutto, marrone scuro

08 07 24
Cherries really dark and big and fruit of all sorts
Especially apricots always apricots and the tale of your juice
Filtered whispers and endless layers
Why with all the flavours?
Thief
Of the words I speak that come out from your mouth past a million years

21 05 24
a bit fire a bit frittata
(my life)

08 05 24Leg dancing under the acer tree
Sweet sweet leaves tickle eyelashes and cheeks
Emptied my pockets of heavy eyes on the canal, it’s a sad goodbye
Today up up up I go
Radiating whole towards the sun and in the sky
The brightest fruit salad, bliss in a square container
Spring joy in my heart spirals outside without end
Got a £1 ring with a blue flower at the market
Can I dance until I am just body?
Pink and orange pink and orange pink and orange!

07 04 24
I want to peel you bit by bit
like the tricky tangerines

13 03 24
Body awake before the eyes
Heat, always heat
Train tickets,
Too many cigarettes
– A house
Fingers in empty kitchen rolls;
Train tickets,
Way too many cigarettes,
Easter
– A house
Fingers in empty kitchen rolls;
Train tickets, flight tickets;
Too many cigarettes
– A house
Fingers in empty kitchen rolls;
The fingers;
Hands
– A house

21 12 23 the issue with giving myself time
and space to fill, to feel
everything, nothing
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the wave of the room in silence - tongue
stuck on the roof,
the memory of keys that might be missing,
the elbow at a corner and you’re always one of the two-squared check pattern of the inside tablecloth where everything sits, ready for a nice dinner, messy with paper and unfinished business ;;;

24 12 23Just like that unfolds
Did I call it or is it travelling through space?
Soft your presence,
swifts right round unannounced
Fzzzzz - - - soul tingling particles
Little and soft, steady it grows
Annoyed at my inability to fence it off - absolutely bloody impossible
wind
muffled at the edge of conversations
Fizzy, frizzy
Slow motion opening of a sparkling water bottle that was opened maybe 2-3 times before
completely silent and expanding, material of dreams
Travels in spirals around the ears, on the neck then sits on lips
sometimes with a short leap makes its way to the tip of the tongue
radiates into the mouth and fills it whole
slowly circles round
and round
and round
and round
travels through the body,
hot, melted caramel
all the way
everything else puffff
gone,
white and quiet
I spill soy sauce and it leaks through the drawers down to the floor
Possibilities, pain, becoming new,

26 05 23Plane notes:
Planes are loud
In life vests you’ll drown
Candy crush at 38’000 ft
I once witnessed an elbow fight
Exit C is better than exit A
Not sure what the Alps would make of a Tesco bag
Dad didn’t call (whatever)
Paprika is the best choice of flavour
It’s sad that most men are pigs

This creature is confused but has very good intentions.

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book - Michael Clark, dancing to The Fall, The Everyday Press.-----below book launch invites.
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Don’t care if they don’t like it — them skyscrapers, them online sales, them fake smiles, agencies, capitalists, squares, spreadsheets, grey, boring, parallel people!

Some notes
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studio wall
at some point in 2021
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LOVE
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((ABOVE)) Digital automatic drawing + writing.

Posters about energy (as in the one that connects us all)

Death under the rainbow. It’s sunny outside but you can’t move.

every creation has its counterpart

OKAY

In November 2022 Barbora Bohusova came from Slovakia to spend a month working with me. Together we took turns to draw little things on the staircase of my studio, in response to each other, from ground to 4th floor. We then documented the drawings and made 2 sweet tiny books <3

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Below:
Delaine LeBas: In The Forest of Grief I Grew Into A Shrub of Gold.
Published by Archivist Addendum, 2024.

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identity design for indigo+madder, a london based art gallery
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Loose, funky identity (not the logo) for Max3Min, a very short film festival from Milan. Here some posts examples from templates I made >

And below the poster for this year edition - it’s more of a special print by itself.

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Some graphics for
Like A Quest, a new publication by Setsuko that’s all about love, otters, black orchids and Nicolas Cage

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Logo for Bunker Basement, made by hand with wooden letters together with Arnaud Desjardin.

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CLICK HERE To Visit
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A fun website I designed for Dal Chodha, a fashion writer, editor, teacher.
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Or watch here:

Or screenshots here:

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(Below) An illustration of the band Porchlight for SoYoung Magazine, in three different versions. Couldn’t make up my mind and still can’t.

++++++++ BELOW: (just) a flower.

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(above) Invoice receipts for book sales and fairs! Bunker Basement + Everyday Press
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BELOW & ABOVE
Graphics for Money Loves Money, an exhibition of artist Dan Halter at Osart Gallery — Milan

Options they didn’t like:

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This DOWN HERE is a blind pastel monoprint.You don’t see the results until you turn over the paper.

And a digital automatic drawing:

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People judge very quickly hey?

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Not much to say here either actually, I just really liked this photograph I found in an archive and not sure why I wrote ‘the’ on it.

Once I was on holidays in Sicily and I was feeling like this (below).

why why why
when the sun is shining high
all i see between its beams
is of us an endless dream

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(below) Open eyes, Open Heart is an exercise book I wrote and designed in 2020.

<3 Postcard for Tenderbooks 202 5.

Open eyes open heart
A book I wrote in 2021. Crazy shit.
Published by Sold Out.
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Lil poster and foldout for How We Live, an initiative of Claire Louise Staunton and Three Rivers Bexley, to empower people who live on Thamesmead council estates to organise and take action against the private landlord 🪧💥

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Open studio modular signage impro with neighbouring friends – one letter each, colours, lots of love.
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TADA! TADA!
A wedding invite for DADA lovers TAlia and DAvid
Riso printed on A2
Background: wedding location
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Sick of the same old wedding invites?
We specialise in one of a kind designs guaranteed to puzzle your uncle
Don’t hesitate to get in touch
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Label design for Details Vol.5, published by The Everyday Press.
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Harry Bennett wrote a lovely article about my work on It’s Nice That. My favourite quote from it is: All this love for the unloved. You can read it >>here<<
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>SEE LIVE!
ABOVE: A website I designed and curated for Archivist Addendum, a non-seasonal and multi-format publishing project that occupies the nascent space between standardised fashion editorial and arcane academe.

Books and e-books for the Government Art Collection – designed in collaboration with Barbara Nassisi. More coming soon!

Ahhhhhh the Sound Seminar! Way too magical to be ruined by language. Hosted by the legendary Jon Wozencroft.

//Above// Some posters and a set of stickers I worked on during my taste-questioning journey, trying to shake up my own judgement.
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A printed (obvious) thought.

Sketches for the website of the Centre for Postmodernism - with CHK Design, 2020.
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some crap
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No thing to say here really.
ha-ha

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(above) 2023
Window vinyl for Tenderbooks with a giant BOOOOOOOKS snake :-P

Strange flowers gloom over my heart.

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Sopra al cuore dentro alle pellicine / Above the heart and inside cuticles. /// Mi piacciono molto gli avverbi di luogo / I really like adverbs of place.
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Post for Offprint Paris - The Everyday Press

Brexit feelings.

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<3 <3
NONNA PHOTOS

A little photoablum of my nonna who was the best nonna ever and I miss her very much <3 <3

A poster made during the first lockdown in April 2020, with a quote of the great Carlo Rovelli that seemed very appropriate at the time.

FLYYYYINNG

hihi hehe huhu haha

baaaaaaaa fkkkzzzzz
meaow meaow rrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Poster for a show in 2024, discarded option.

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Postcards for my mum’s b&b in the countryside - need a holiday?
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In 2020 I graduated from an MA at the Royal College of Art in Visual Communication. I loved it but also complained a lot about my last year there (as you do as a privileged kid) in this last minute little book done in 48hrs that I “exhibited” on the online degree show.
They’ve tried to shut me down but if it’s in a book it’s real, and if it’s in Times New Roman it’s even more real.

>>>VIEW IT HERE STILL LIVE ON THE SITE.

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Together with it, I also founded (and now abandoned to its misery) SUPER REFLECTIVE with Andrea Popyordanova, an online archive of past & present RCA acts of protests by students and academia.
Screenshot below:

& Below our MANIFESTO:

And some visuals I did for the online site:

Botte, sangue e violenza alè alè!
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Goodbye standards, I draw from the soul. A dive into the unconscious. //// Oh so sunny here, and yet is night and all is dark.
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there is some really old shit on this website

(Below) Posters I did for the set of Vandullz, a mini TV series aired on BBC One Wales.

For the same series / Poster for the memorial of a dead Welsh old man / The crew and actors loved it so much that apparently it became iconic and they all took pictures with it LOL

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Me and the amazing Claire Mouton did some graphics for Young@Heart, a chorus of fierce elderly people in Massachusetts USA.
Below a couple of digital posters for their two latest events.

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Never mind, the usual rubbish.

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mini poster for an exhibition at RCA

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Here an article about my work on It’s Nice That:

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/margherita-sabbioneda-graphic-design-illustration-141021
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(a b o v e)
I scroll, I scroll, I scroll, I swipe, I swipe, I swipe. It’s so boring in the sun, this is much more fun.
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There are stars in my heart. Written age 7. Still true!

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I was pissed off here
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I was drawing an ‘A’, it turned out to be alive.
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I Am One: Journey of A Liberated Soul is a lil video piece I made in 2019 at the RCA that you can watch on YouTube HERE only if you are over 18, because there is the amazing Natasha Sturgis dancing in an orange bodysuit and YouTube thinks she’s naked. I’ve tried to argue with the algorithm but it just wouldn’t listen.

An illustration for the short movie ‘I AM’. Produced by Candid Broad Productions.

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Bibliographic Performances &Surrogate Readings by Janelle Rebel. Published by The Everyday Press, 2024.

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2 tote bags I did for Tenderbooks. Angel and devil kinda vibes.
You can buy them on their website HERE & HERE.

La la laaaaa

Dancing to the sun :-)
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Cockroach!
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A crazy poster for The Everyday Press that we loaded with more or less subtle political comments.
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Website design for film director Bine Bach (not yet developed)
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Above: Yes, you can design a logo in half hour.
Short Culture logo for a special section in Rolling Stone magazine curated by Max3Min.
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A book launch invite for The Everyday Press. Had to redo it (was too mad for audience), see below:

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bits of a treatment layout for advertising director Bine Bach (Old Spice)

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Newsletter n.1 for The Everyday Press + Bunker Basement at Offrprint London 2022,

Website for C.M.M., a project that unfortunately died
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Fundraiser for a book of Stuart Croft’s work – The Everyday Press
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Coming soon: BUONGIORNO
A collab with Barbara Nassisi collecting ‘Buongiorno’ images sent by Italian ladies on Whattsapp. It appears to be a social movement. If you know someone who is involved please get in touch.
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Identity for the second edition of a group exhibition concerned with a ‘new’ spiritual.
((Not that there was ever a first one - it was cancelled due to Covid - but since i did make the graphics for it I’ll fake like there were 2 editions).
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& not chosen proposals:
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previous posters from Toward A New Spirituality from 2020, printed with Risograph:

And other proposals from 2020:

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2023–2025 Wednesdays
I worked part time as in-house designer for The Everyday Press, a small London publishing house focused on artist books

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Invites for a show of Ansuya Blom’s work at Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, Hamburg.

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Poster for Studio S3
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Look, i designed something normal! It’s a book of Sigune Hamann’s work published by The Everyday Press
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We are what we see, we see what we are.
With my ex bf ‘s eye in it. He’s a difficult dude, but he has the sweetest, most beautiful eyes on the planet! What a deadly combo.
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Identity for Tiipoi, a sustainable homewear brand working between India and the UK. *TACABANDA project* with Barbara Nassisi

Business cards for Arnaud Desjardin
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Poo Poo Books
(will make more soon) + some work on the floor. The two things are linked but is not that interesting so I won’t bore you.
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I’M MIKE AND THIS IS THE SHARP SERVICE
for a lil publication by the amazing Georgia Kate O’Brien coming soon. Get some of her work HERE!
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Posters for Disco Freaks – CHK Design.
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In 2017/18 I’ve worked full time, and then part-time untill March 2021, for CHK Design, a small design studio based in London.
Above a selection of some of the craziest proposals I designed. .
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And this is a book collecting experiments and thoughts (WIP).

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This ladybird is really upset with a limo polluting her hill. Understandable to be honest.

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A recorded conversation between me and the online Tate Archive website. Done while at RCA in collab with Tate and probably quite pointless.

Just cats.

Lockdown feelings.

Digital crap creeping everywhere these days.

Bah

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A poem in red, on green.

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A fictional band called The Syphilis. I did this a few years ago and honestly I don’t know what I was thinking.

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...When it’s purely spontaneous, when it comes from the soul, from eyes that are closed, and doesn’t matter what form and shape it takes. When it made its way from so deep within or so far out that it’s almost alien, but not really because you feel cosy looking at it, with a special kind of umbelical tingle.

Poster for Ketchup, exhibition at Hidde van Seggelen gallery in Hamburg, 2025.
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Product cards for Tiipoi.
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(UP)Vinyl cover for A Forest Dub – The Everyday Press (coming soon)
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Dr Pickle was real
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It’s a gradient, and like glitter. A vibration. Dzzzz. Shhhh. It moves upwards up up up, never rests never quivers, even if it’s slippery. I blink, is there, I blink, is gone, but the ceiling echos of it. Ssss. You need to focus.
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Badges for Offprint 2022 x Bunker Basement
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A strip I did about Barbara for BranD magazine. They asked ‘what makes you feel most relaxed when you work’.

I did my BA in Graphic Communication Design (Pathway: Illustration) at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
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Below From Africa to Como Lake, my favourite project from back then. It reports the conversations I’ve had with African migrants and refugees at Abbazia dell’Acquafredda, a shelter on Como Lake, Italy.

A photo of the Abbazia

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2 spreads from a book where I collaged social media posts of 8,9,10 yrs olds + things they said when interviewd about their social media usage. Very creepy stuff.

I really like dolphins, especially when they jump.

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(Below)An abstract print part of my One page, One Minute book which is too big to even try to photograph so I never had the energy.
Basically I set these rules for myself:
Illustrator.
One minute,
one page.
Tools: line, circle, square, brush.
Colours: primary.
Writing: yes.
Font: program default.
Deleting never allowed.
Duration: 1h30min.

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Again some avverbi di luogo (adverbs of place): qui, qua, dentro fuori, sopra, sotto, lí, là, lontanto, vicino, dovunque, laggiù.
// I mean these are the nicest words ever and also isn’t it much nicer when we’re there rather than here, and we let outside what’s inside but also bring the outside inside and we’re far but not further and basically when everything is everywhere?

An old proposal for Belle Scar, musician and artist. She didn’t like it though.

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A cheesy skin poem I wrote many years ago and pasted on my friend’s neck. We’re not friend anymore so now this feels weird.

/ 2019: visual identity and assets or Elisabetta Cavalieri Ducati, an amazing raku ceramic artist from Milan.
I’ve also designed her website. Check it out HERE
She’s also my mother.

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IMPORTANT THINGS

TYPOS

LOVE

from the counter of a bar all the way until the morning

DEFENCE

The Topkaki Dagger
An emerald-studded curved dagger, known as a jambiya, created in 1746 by Ottoman craftsmen to be given as a gift to the Shah of Persia.

XENA
The Princess Warrior

BIDET

In every Italian bathroom you can find this thing called ’bidet’. It’s very useful and igenic and I’ve been trying to promote its use in the UK for many years. Above in the bathroom of my mum’s friend, where you can see some classic 80s Italian brown tiles, very typical in bathrooms of those days, and one of the most common delicate bidet soaps, chamomile scented.
You should also wonder, is that why Italians are such good lovers, because we keep things v clean?
Is this also the secret to our cookig abilities? Or maybe that’s cause we like sex so much? It could all be down to the bidet.
Bidets are also great for cooling down when it’s hot, washing your feet, or pretending you’re giant sitting on a normal sized tub.
They’re also fascinating design objects.

If you too feel passionate about bidets and think they should be in every home, contact me and let’s discuss a bidet progaganda project together.

In the meantime, some fun facts about bidets from Wikipedia:

Etymology
Bidet is a French word for "pony", and in Old French, bider meant "to trot". This etymology comes from the notion that one "rides" or straddles a bidet much like a pony is ridden. The word "bidet" was used in 15th century France to refer to the pet ponies that French royalty kept.

Eighteenth-century bidet in use.

APRICOTS

Apricots are my favourite fruit. In italian albicocca, which is such a beautiful word.

Almost had an apricot tree once. I think about it at times. And every spring i express a wish with my first apricot of the season. Sadly in the UK is very rare to find a good apricot. But if you look hard, you will find one.

A good apricot is distinguihed by these characteristics:

Colour: it’s a deep vibrant orange, yet earthy (not like the one pictured above, that apricot is so not ready. was ready for a sexy pic though hey?), even better if there is a bit of a reddish shading to it.
Consistency: it’s soft and soggy, almost squishy, and quite heavy. This means the Sun has done its job of kissing it well and for the right amount of time.
Smell: if you smell it from close, it has a subtle scent of dreams of peace.

all work and no play make pippi a dull girl