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End:Notes #2

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

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The collective book designed by the 18 students with Leonardo Sonnoli at the Graduate Thesis/Open Research course, RISD –Rhode Island School of Design– http://www.risd.edu/Graphic_Design/

Edited and designed by:
Andy Chen
Justin Chen
Yejin Cho
Catherine Cieslewicz
Minsun Eo
Colin Frazer
Christopher Hamamoto
Anther Kiley
Min Ji Lee
Elisa Maezono
Waël Morcos
Eugene Park
Jiwon Park
Federico Perez Villoro
Ali Qadeer
Amanda Sim
Franziska Stetter
Jonathan Yamakami

End:Notes #1

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

From the 9th to the 20th of January 2013, at the RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, took place the Graduate Thesis/Open Research course.
18 students, guided by Leonardo Sonnoli, developed a project on the main references of their thesis: the notes for the end of the graduate group experience.
Through elevators interviews, private collections of printed envelops, music compilations, Situationist examples, limited editions on demand, silkscreen experiments, and more, it has been designed a collective books, a poster collection and a website.
More later…

Winter holydays decoration

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

The design for the Palazzo Grassi -François Pinault Foundation- greetings card, by Leonardo Sonnoli.
When winter holydays come, also the letters are decorated.

A silent floor

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

The Nuova Consonanza association organized a series of events at the American Academy in the beautiful Villa Aurelia of Rome, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of John Cage.
From the 18th of November to the 14th of Dicember 2012 within the “Festa d’autunno 2012 – CentoCage” event,  
Irene Bacchi, Nicholas Blechman and Leonardo Sonnoli contributed with the installation “Heidelberg Speedmaster”, a series of three posters and a video that filmed the process of posters print in three times, based on the 4′33″ of John Cage. The posters were available to pick up to leave the floor “silent”.

more info www.nuovaconsonanza.it

“Made in Italy” in Italy made

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

Since 9th of November the new website of Internoitaliano is on line (www.internoitaliano.com). It is a new system for the production and sale of designer furnishings, created by Giulio Iacchetti, that brings Contemporary Italian Design with the quality of traditional Italian craftsmanship to the worldwide marketplace with products sold exclusively online.
Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta) designed the identity of Internoitaliano, the website, and the catalogue.
The catalogue/folders holds the contribution of Beppe Finessi and Stefano Micelli that wrote two “Manifestos” for Internoitaliano, Guido Guidi who gave a photographic sequence of an italian domestic space and Max Rommell provided the craftsmen’s photos.

The nonlinear ways of contemporary art/2

Friday, November 16th, 2012

From the 9th to 11th of November in Turin took place the successful edition of Artissima 2012, International Fair of Contemporary Art, directed by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto.
Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi, Igor Bevilacqua and Anny Comello at Tassinari/Vetta studio designed the identity of the fair, the catalogue and the signage.

The nonlinear ways of contemporary art

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

ARTISSIMA – Fair of Contemporary Art – opening on 8th of November in Turin.
Designed by Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi, Igor Bevilacqua, Anny Comello at Tassinari/Vetta.

A copy is a copy is a copy

Sunday, October 21st, 2012

Leonardo Sonnoli designed “Copycat” a book for the installation by the italian architect Cino Zucchi, awarded at the Architectural Biennale of Venice 2012.
The book has been commissioned by the craftsman -the De Castelli company – who realized the project.
It’s presented the research, the concept, the construction and the exhibition.

Photos as poems, poems as pictures

Sunday, October 21st, 2012

In occasion of the poetry festival “Cabudanne de sos poetas 2012” in Seneghe (Sardinia), Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi designed a book with a portrait of the village of Seneghe made by the photographer Guido Guidi and by the poet Mariangela Gualtieri.

Designed by voice

Monday, September 10th, 2012

From the 1st of September opened in Venice the exhibition Voice of images, at the François Pinault Foundation’s centre for Contemporary Art, in the Palazzo Grassi, curated by Caroline Bourgeois.
The Tassinari/Vetta office designed the event communication and the catalogue: art direction by Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi, Igor Bevilacqua and Anny Comello.
The exhibition shows a selection of video works from the François Pinault collection.
The communication is based on few frames of the moving logotype.