Category: Book Covers

SPIGA 26: The Two Souls Of The City

8/23/2024

Illustration for the transparent book jacket of Hines' SPIGA 26: The Two Souls Of The City.
It represents the Spiga building in the heart of the fashion district of Milan. Since 2021 it hosts Semina: L'infiorata di via della Spiga, a series of flower carpets made by the Associazione Maestri Infioratori di Noto, who have been inspired by my artworks this year. Thanks to Beyond The Line agency and AD Alessandra Grillo!

Iperborea: Family roots

6/27/2024

Book cover illustration for "Il segreto dei Cardinal" (original title "Twenty-One Cardinals") by Jocelyn Saucier, published in Italy by Iperborea. After not being in the same room for decades, the twenty-one kids from the Cardinal family are congregating to celebrate their father in their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec.
But one of the siblings has gone missing...
Thanks to AD Alessandro Foggetta!

Sonzogno: Plan B

6/11/2024

Plan B: how to escape an unhappy job and change life. Cover illustration for the new book by Valeria Teodonio, published in Italy by Sonzogno. Thanks to AD Ester Mazzoni!

Codice: Book cover of "Quel che non ha nome"

5/10/2024

Book cover illustration for Piedad Bonnett's "Quel che non ha nome" ("That which has no name") published in Italy by Codice Edizioni, an autobiographical novel about the loss of the author's son. Instead of going with some sort of conceptual metaphor, I tried to portray the absence of the son through an everyday object like a student uniform laying on a chair. Thanks to editor Enrico Casadei and graphic designer Silvia Virgillo/Puntuale, as always.

Salani: Book cover for the crime novel "Il gioco degli opposti"

3/28/2024

Book cover illustration for "Il gioco degli opposti" by Françoise Morlupi, a crime novel set in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Published in Italy by Salani Editore. Thanks to AD Stefano Izzo!

Terre di Mezzo: Shoot for the moon

11/30/2023

Book cover illustration of "Se punti alla luna" (If you shoot for the moon) by Marie Vareille, for Italian publisher Terre di Mezzo. The main character is Léa, 16-year-old girl torn between the dream of becoming a professional basketball player and the need to untangle the knot of her life. Thanks to AD Giulia Rizzo!

Codice: Book cover of "Bliss Montage" by Ling Ma

10/25/2023

New book cover illustration for Codice Edizioni: author Ling Ma brings us eight widely different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions. The Italian title “La donna che scompare” (kind of ‘The woman who vanishes’) evokes films by Hitchcock and Antonioni, which also have inspired this illustration. Graphic design by Silvia Virgillo/Puntuale.

Codice: Book cover of "Faune" by Christiane Vadnais

9/22/2023

Latest book cover for Codice Edizioni: "Faune" is a climate fiction set in a near-future world ravaged by climate change. Laura, a biologist, explores a lush and brutal nature, fascinating and terrifying at the same time, which erases the boundaries between humans, animals and the surrounding space.

Mondadori: Book cover for Jef Aerts' novel

8/4/2023

New book cover illustration for Italian publisher Mondadori. Jef Aerts’ "Mio fratello sa volare" (The Blue Wing) tells the adventure of two inseparable brothers torn between being children and having too much responsibility.
Thanks to art director Fernando Ambrosi! Graphic design by Copia & Incolla.

Codice: Book cover of "Dead Souls" by Sam Riviere

6/29/2023

Book cover illustration of "Anime morte" (Dead Souls) by Sam Riviere: a witty, metaphysical novel that depicts a fantastical, alternate-world version of London in which poetry has become the city’s major cultural product. But the capital’s literary scene was racked by scandal: the poet Solomon Wiese has been accused of plagiarism...
Thanks to Enrico Casadei and Silvia Virgillo/Puntuale, as always! https://www.codiceedizioni.it/libri/anime-morte/

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