TAKEAWAY: Massimo Gentile, design director at Italy’s Il Secolo XIX, is not just designing newspaper pages all day. The talented Massimo also tries to do a type illustration a day. Here are some of his most recent ones.
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Illustration by Massimo Gentile/Il Secolo XIX
While most of us look at type catalogs and admire the curvatures, ligatures and overall feeling that a letterform presents to us, Massimo Gentile, design director at Italy’s Il Secolo XIX, takes it all one step further.
“I like to work with type to make statements. Maybe some of these things have been done before, and that is OK, one does not have to be the first, but , for me, this is like daily therapy,” Massimo tells me.
In fact, Massimo made a 2012 resolution: to create one of these type mini posters everyday. So far, we think he is keeping his promise.
Here I post some of Massimo’s creations for you to enjoy.
The week ahead: where is Mario?
It is an interesting week ahead for me, moving across two continents, but engaging in some good programs.
April 17, London—-Monocle Radio: will appear in the morning show, The Globalist, where the hosts review the day’s newspapers. Always look forward to my Monocle encounters, and, although friend Tyler Brulé will not be able to join me (we missed each other by one day, and I could not change my own agenda, but, next time, Tyler!). Will also participate in an interview for the weekly Culture show.
http://www.monocle.com/
April 18, London———judging the D&AD design contest.
I will be part of one of the 25 juries to select the best of design to go into the 50th D&AD Annual.
http://www.dandad.org/
April 20-23, Buenos Aires—catching up with Garcia Media Latinamerica team; plus enjoying one of my top five favorite cities in the world.
http://www.garcia-media.com.ar/
April 25, Santiago de Chile—speaking to the WAN-IFRA America Latina 2012 Congress; my topic: Designing for the 21st century, across platforms.
www.wan-ifra.org
April 27, Rochester, NY—speaking at Digital Reading Symposium at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology). I am honored to be in this gathering which explores the art and science of reading on screens .
http://www.rit.edu/cias/readingdigital/