The kaleidoscope is the tool used this year to look at the movable world of contemporary art.
“Artissima” the international fair of contemporary art, presents its 2013 edition from the 8th to the 10th of November, in Torino.
For each ads, folder, poster, items of communication, it’s used another picture produced by a digital kaleidoscope, freezing each time a different compositions of the five Artissima’s logo.
Designed at Tassinari/Vetta by Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi; software thanks to Valentina Rachiele.

The 11th edition of the Workshop of Architecture at the University Iuav of Venice -known as W.A.Ve.- is organized between the 1st and the 19th of July 2013.
Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi -at the Tassinari/Vetta office- updated its visual identity and the temporary signages and warning signs.
This year the interpretation of the wings sculpture in front of the Iuav building (designed by Massimo Scolari) suggests a 3dimensional architectonical space changing its shape in the 4th dimension of the time. As in the previous editions of Wave the design is inspired by the visual research of the italian graphic designer Franco Grignani.

The catalogue, poster, invitation cards and guide for the exhibition “Prima Materia” at Punta della Dogana in Venice, the venue of the Pinault Foundation.
Designed at Tassinari/Vetta by Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi, Igor Bevilacqua and Anny Comello. Catalogue published by Electa.

“Percuotere la mente” (beating the mind) is a yearly summer music festival organized in Rimini. Leonardo Sonnoli designed the communication managed by the Relè agency.

Mostly the musicians presented in the festival are influenced by different music, mainly from jazz.
The letters composing the names are all different and “influenced” by fragments of glyphs of the same alphabet grafted into the original letter.
Our references come always with us.

Prima Materia is the title of the exhibition of the Pinault Foundation at the Punta della Dogana in Venice, curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan. Its opening on the 29th of May 2013.
The Art Uroborus is eating its tail and constantly re-creating itself.
Exhibition identity and catalogue designed at Tassinari/Vetta by Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi, Igor Bevilacqua and Anny Comello.

The posters “Zio Enrico” by Irene Bacchi, Leonardo Sonnoli and “Diritti e Doveri” by Leonardo Sonnoli, photo by Albert Watson, are selected to be displayed in the exhibition “Vis-à-vis” that took place on the ground floor of the “Les Silos” in Chaumont from March 29 until May 11 in occasion of the “24th International Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont”. It deals with faces and portraits in contemporary posters.
The exhibition, curated by Étienne Hervy and Éric Aubert, presents fiftyfive posters produced in the last twenty years for the international scene.

One of the eight chapters of the book for the 25th anniversary of Tonelli Design:
Compositions I – XIV
by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta)
Among the many objects of any living space there is most likely to be a bottle of glass cleaner, which proves the widespread use of this siliceous material.
Different bottles of various brands have their own original shape, despite coming all from a similar prototype. These slight variations are clearly captured in these compositions that deliberately refer to the works of Giorgio Morandi and to their intelligent photographic interpretation by Luigi Ghirri. And, as the lesson of the two maestros has taught us, the aim is to search for the beauty hidden in banality.

One of the eight chapters of the book for the 25th anniversary of Tonelli Design:
Chance Methodology
by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta)
The random, beautiful, and unique shapes created by breaking a glass slab are the starting point for the serial production of glass cut using CNC machines. A process that, whilst imitating fortuity– and probably being defeated by it– reflects on the idea of design as the relationship between manual skills and serial production, as well as on the beauty of the impossibility of perfection.

At the Salone del Mobile 2013 in Milan it has been presented a project in eight chapters on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Tonelli design, one of the best italian glass furniture company.
It’s a project curated by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta), with the texts by Martina Gamboni and the photographs by Massimo Gardone, Bianca Fabbri and Daniele Lisi.

On the 23rd of March 2013 Leonardo Sonnoli has been invited to talk at “Fruit” in Bologna, an art micro-publishers, self-publishers, printers, graphic designers, illustrators and artists exhibition.
His talk was about the wrong idea to consider “indipendent” the little publishers. He invited in his talk two young researcher, Irene Bacchi and Niccolò Mazzoni, to demonstrate that the history teach us to develop our future. The two designers –contemporary Montag and Clarisse (see “Fahrenheit 451)”– talked about two italian publishing houses of the past, Il Saggiatore and La Nuova Foglio.
Sonnoli discussed on independency and experimental publishing through few examples by Sister Corita, the Provo group, Pieter Brattinga and more.