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HELLO
MARGHERITA SABBIONEDA
@margipippi
margipippi@gmail.com
+44(0)7990673259
ABOUT:
I’m a freelance designer and illustration based in London.
I like to think of my work as humane, open-hearted and a bit different.
︎Click here to read my manifesto.
CLIENTS:
Archivist Addendum, Vandullz for BBC Wales, Bine Bach, Setsuko Publishing, Biscuit Filmworks, SoYoung magazine, Young@Heart, Tenderbooks, Dal Chodha, Osart Gallery Milano, Elisabetta Cavalieri Ducati, Tall Trees Productions, University of Arts London, VIDAS, NF Physiotherapy, Alpiq Italia, CHK Design (AD Magazine, Grosvenor Gallery, Cosmic House, The Ecologist, Anna Bauer, Disco Freaks, Simon Townsley) etc.
PUBLICATIONS:
Open Eyes, Open Heart
Written and designed by Margherita Sabbioneda.
Published by SOLD OUT Publishing, 2021.
Available on ︎︎︎Tenderbooks.
EDUCATION:
/2018–2020:
MA VISUAL COMMUNICATION
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
(with distinction)
London
/2014–2017:
BA GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS (UAL)
London
FEATURES:
︎︎︎It’s Nice That (2021):
Margherita Sabbioneda on defining her unconventional design practice.
︎︎︎Fuse Kiwi: Interesting Internet (2022)
︎︎︎Cargo Collective (2021):
Sites in Use.
︎︎︎Disobedient Records (2021):
Liz Melling:10 Favourite Artists.
I’m a freelance designer and illustration based in London.
I like to think of my work as humane, open-hearted and a bit different.
︎Click here to read my manifesto.
CLIENTS:
Archivist Addendum, Vandullz for BBC Wales, Bine Bach, Setsuko Publishing, Biscuit Filmworks, SoYoung magazine, Young@Heart, Tenderbooks, Dal Chodha, Osart Gallery Milano, Elisabetta Cavalieri Ducati, Tall Trees Productions, University of Arts London, VIDAS, NF Physiotherapy, Alpiq Italia, CHK Design (AD Magazine, Grosvenor Gallery, Cosmic House, The Ecologist, Anna Bauer, Disco Freaks, Simon Townsley) etc.
PUBLICATIONS:
Open Eyes, Open Heart
Written and designed by Margherita Sabbioneda.
Published by SOLD OUT Publishing, 2021.
Available on ︎︎︎Tenderbooks.
EDUCATION:
/2018–2020:
MA VISUAL COMMUNICATION
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
(with distinction)
London
/2014–2017:
BA GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS (UAL)
London
FEATURES:
︎︎︎It’s Nice That (2021):
Margherita Sabbioneda on defining her unconventional design practice.
︎︎︎Fuse Kiwi: Interesting Internet (2022)
︎︎︎Cargo Collective (2021):
Sites in Use.
︎︎︎Disobedient Records (2021):
Liz Melling:10 Favourite Artists.
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LIKE A QUEST
(2022)
Made some graphics for Like A Quest, a book published by Setsuko.
In 1987 Nicolas Cage had a chance meeting with Patricia Arquette in Canter’s Deli, Los Angeles. The moon hit his eye like a big pizza pie, it was amore. He proposed on the spot, she told him “you’re crazy”. But he was serious. So he asked her to put him on a quest. At the end of that quest, if he succeeded in bringing her what she asked for, she would have to marry him.
“When she gave me the list I knew even more that this was the right person for me, because it was so inventive and creative. She wanted a black orchid. She wanted J.D. Sallinger’s signature – and everybody who reads knows that he hardly ever signed anything. She wanted a wedding dress from this Lisu tribe in Northern Thailand and one of those Bob’s Big Boy statues. So I set out on my quest”.
Softcover staple-bound book in original burger wrapper, 12pp,
colour postcard insert with two A4 double-sided fold-out posters,
wrapper with colour stickers. 170 x 170 mm
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DALCHODHA.COM
(2021)
WEB DESIGN+CURATION
︎︎︎VIEW THE LIVE SITE !
Site curation and design for Dal Chodha: editor, writer and academic occupying the boundaries of the fashion realm.
On the home page, hand-picked sentences from his articles compose a surreal poem, minuscule images float above the words and distrub the reader, symbols spin endlessly, a hand slowly flicks through a magazine and a tiny ugly shoe flies across the screen. 👽️
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TENDERTOTES
(2021/22)
Two tote bag designs I did for Tenderbooks.
Available at tenderbooks.com
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VANDULLZ : BBC WALES
(2021)
BBC TV SERIES SET GRAPHICS & ILLUSTRATIONS
I’ve designed some graphics for the set of Vandullz, a serie aired on BBC Wales and available on BBC iPlayer. // Scruffy posters that decorate the main set printed on colorful paper, T-shirts, a funny memorial poster.
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YOUNG@HEART
(2021)
I’ve recently started a collaboration with Young@Heart, a chorus of fierce elderly people based in Massachusetts, USA. They’ve been featured on CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times etc. and have toured around the world.
Here some options I presented for two online concerts. Soon will be working on a new identity for them together with Claire Mouton :-)
Here some options I presented for two online concerts. Soon will be working on a new identity for them together with Claire Mouton :-)
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TOWARD A NEW SPIRITUALITY
(2021)
EXHIBITION IDENTITY + ASSETS
Posters, social media posts & handout booklets for an exhibition in London concerned with a renewal of the spiritual in a world that forgets its existence.
Posters, social media posts & handout booklets for an exhibition in London concerned with a renewal of the spiritual in a world that forgets its existence.
OTHER
designs that weren’t chosen:
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designs that weren’t chosen:
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TOWARD A NEW SPIRITUALITY
(2020)
EXHIBITION IDENTITY + ASSETS
Assets for the first edition of the exhibition that was cancelled due to lockdown.
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Assets for the first edition of the exhibition that was cancelled due to lockdown.
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ARCHIVIST ADDENDUM
(2021)
WEB DESIGN
︎︎︎VIEW THE LIVE SITE
Founded in 2020 by Jane Howard and Dal Chodha, Archivist Addendum is a publishing project free from the confines of a bound periodical. Non-seasonal and multi-format, it occupies the nascent space between standardised fashion editorial and arcane academe.
︎︎︎VIEW THE LIVE SITE
Founded in 2020 by Jane Howard and Dal Chodha, Archivist Addendum is a publishing project free from the confines of a bound periodical. Non-seasonal and multi-format, it occupies the nascent space between standardised fashion editorial and arcane academe.
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ELISABETTA CAVALIERI DUCATI
(2020)
VISUAL IDENTITY + WEB
︎︎︎VIEW THE LIVE SITE!
Elisabetta Cavalieri Ducati is a raku ceramic artist based in Milan.
The visual identity is thought to be extra clean yet poetic. White space and suggested lines for form to take shape.
︎︎︎VIEW THE LIVE SITE!
Elisabetta Cavalieri Ducati is a raku ceramic artist based in Milan.
The visual identity is thought to be extra clean yet poetic. White space and suggested lines for form to take shape.
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OPEN EYES, OPEN HEART
(2020)
PUBLICATION
BUY ON TENDERBOOKS.COM
A book that I wrote and designed concerned with taste and the aesthetic flattening of the design world. Published by SOLD OUT, 2021.
In this book you’ll find a few techniques that I believe could help you, dear designer, to question and expand your sense of taste. Forget rules and habits, loosen up your ego, appreciate new things, be spontaneous and open your little six-column-grid heart. Why shake up your established, insta-popular 'good taste'? Because, if you haven’t noticed, everything looks the BLOODY SAME.
And not only this is boring and sad, it also sucks at a deep societal level, because our brain imitates images (WE BECOME WHAT WE SEE) and because people identify in different aesthetics, so if everything is the same it accounts for one type of viewer only. It’s a sneaky mechanism of control that makes us easy to manage; it erases the different, engenders division and unifies us in mediocrity. Find out more in this manual, which is YOURS so you should do what you wish with it.
It will attempt to open your eyes and heart and give you space to try out my techniques.
It’s not a precious object, so don’t feel precious with it: scribble it, dismantle it, intervene in the discourse, and don’t forget to question it all.
BUY ON TENDERBOOKS.COM
A book that I wrote and designed concerned with taste and the aesthetic flattening of the design world. Published by SOLD OUT, 2021.
In this book you’ll find a few techniques that I believe could help you, dear designer, to question and expand your sense of taste. Forget rules and habits, loosen up your ego, appreciate new things, be spontaneous and open your little six-column-grid heart. Why shake up your established, insta-popular 'good taste'? Because, if you haven’t noticed, everything looks the BLOODY SAME.
And not only this is boring and sad, it also sucks at a deep societal level, because our brain imitates images (WE BECOME WHAT WE SEE) and because people identify in different aesthetics, so if everything is the same it accounts for one type of viewer only. It’s a sneaky mechanism of control that makes us easy to manage; it erases the different, engenders division and unifies us in mediocrity. Find out more in this manual, which is YOURS so you should do what you wish with it.
It will attempt to open your eyes and heart and give you space to try out my techniques.
It’s not a precious object, so don’t feel precious with it: scribble it, dismantle it, intervene in the discourse, and don’t forget to question it all.
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OSART GALLERY
(2021)
EXHIBITION IDENTITY DESIGN
︎︎︎osartgallery.com
A recently started collaboration with OSART, a contemporary art gallery in Milan. Here part of the identity assets developed for their current exhibition of Dan Halter’s work.
︎︎︎osartgallery.com
A recently started collaboration with OSART, a contemporary art gallery in Milan. Here part of the identity assets developed for their current exhibition of Dan Halter’s work.
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:: CHK DESIGN ::
BRANDING, EDITORIAL, WEB
chkdesign.com
CHK Design is a design studio based in London.
I’ve worked with them from October 17 to April 21 as a graphic designer and illustrator on various branding, editorial and web projects.
OCT 17–OCT 18
Full-time junior designer
OCT 18–APR 21
Part-time designer
chkdesign.com
CHK Design is a design studio based in London.
I’ve worked with them from October 17 to April 21 as a graphic designer and illustrator on various branding, editorial and web projects.
OCT 17–OCT 18
Full-time junior designer
OCT 18–APR 21
Part-time designer
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CHK DESIGN : SIMON TOWNSLEY
(2019)
simontownsley.com
Assets developement following the brand identity designed by CHK Design and the creative direction of Christian Küsters, for photographer Simon Townsley.
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CHK DESIGN : THE ECOLOGIST
(2019)
EDITORIAL DESIGN
Proposals for an upcoming magazine that focuses on the natural world and pressing issues of climate change, but wants to keep its presence positive, young and active.
Proposals for an upcoming magazine that focuses on the natural world and pressing issues of climate change, but wants to keep its presence positive, young and active.
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CHK DESIGN : THE COSMIC HOUSE
+ CENTRE FOR POST-MODERNISM
(2021)
BRAND IDENTITY + ASSETS
Brand identity, web design and identity assets for The Cosmic House, a soon to be museum of the infulential architect and tehorist Charles Jencks, father of Postmodern Classicism.
Creative direction by Christian Küsters.
Brand identity, web design and identity assets for The Cosmic House, a soon to be museum of the infulential architect and tehorist Charles Jencks, father of Postmodern Classicism.
Creative direction by Christian Küsters.
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CHK DESIGN : AD MAGAZINE
(2018–2021)
EDITORIAL DESIGN
AD (Architectural Design) Magazine is a historical British magazine at the forefront of architectural design and theory.
During these years at CHK Design I’ve worked on many issues of AD magazine, designing and preparing for print. Here a few spreads I’ve designed and some covers I worked on with the CHK Design team.
Editor: Helen Castle
Creative direction: CHK Design
Publisher: Wiley
AD (Architectural Design) Magazine is a historical British magazine at the forefront of architectural design and theory.
During these years at CHK Design I’ve worked on many issues of AD magazine, designing and preparing for print. Here a few spreads I’ve designed and some covers I worked on with the CHK Design team.
Editor: Helen Castle
Creative direction: CHK Design
Publisher: Wiley
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CHK DESIGN : ANNA BAUER
(2021)
IDENTITY + WEB DESIGN
︎︎︎annabauer.com
Flexible logo design, identity development and website for German composer Anna Bauer.
Creative direction by Christian Küsters.
︎︎︎annabauer.com
Flexible logo design, identity development and website for German composer Anna Bauer.
Creative direction by Christian Küsters.
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CHK DESIGN : GROSVENOR GALLERY
(2020)
POSTER DESIGNS
Posters proposals for London-based Grosvenor Gallery, an old time client of CHK Design.
Posters proposals for London-based Grosvenor Gallery, an old time client of CHK Design.
50th anniversary proposals
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CHK DESIGN : DISCO FREAKS
POSTERS
Proposals for Disco DJ duo DISCO FREAKS.
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DEAR PAUL AND RCA SENIOR MANAGEMENT
(2020)
BOOK / RCA MA DEGREE SHOW
︎︎︎View the whole project on RCA2020.
This is a last minute book of anger and sadness.
My form of protest against the Royal College of Art, developed with Super Reflective, its digital counterpart that hosts other voices. Below the manifesto of Super Reflective, written with Andrea Popyordanova.
︎︎︎View the whole project on RCA2020.
This is a last minute book of anger and sadness.
My form of protest against the Royal College of Art, developed with Super Reflective, its digital counterpart that hosts other voices. Below the manifesto of Super Reflective, written with Andrea Popyordanova.
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SOUND SEMINAR
(2020)
IDENTITY + ASSETS
Logo and loose identity for Soundseminar, a series of immersive sound events hosted by the great Jon Wozencroft. The events got interrupted by covid last year. I’ve also kind of look after the social media accounts.
Logo and loose identity for Soundseminar, a series of immersive sound events hosted by the great Jon Wozencroft. The events got interrupted by covid last year. I’ve also kind of look after the social media accounts.
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FOCUS : LOGOS
VARIOUS
(more coming soon)
Super Reflective, The Mind Fit Coach, Pantytex, NF Physiotherapy, A Borgo!, Mathaf 10th Anniversary (with CHK Design), Inevitech (with CHK Design).
Super Reflective, The Mind Fit Coach, Pantytex, NF Physiotherapy, A Borgo!, Mathaf 10th Anniversary (with CHK Design), Inevitech (with CHK Design).
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