To the moon: How start-up CFOs turn ambitions into reality
This magazine article gathers the experiences of senior CFOs embarking on new adventures as they begin working with young startups, highlighting both the benefits and challenges. In my drafts, I focused on two aspects: the youthful work environment and the resulting need for adaptation, and the iconic imagery of startups as launchpads. I envisioned the CFOs’ journey as that of astronauts. The first image represents the first day on the job, with the CFO heading toward the startup. The second depicts the effort and weightlessness of the role, and the third was a direction proposed by the agency. Proposal Drafts
LLC’S Website
I created these images for LLC (Labour Law Community), a web platform for labor law professionals. The client was open to experimentation, and the human-centered nature of labor law allowed me to explore visually rich, metaphorical concepts. For the HOME image, I depicted a large community atop a tree, nurturing the world below—a metaphor for humanity and labor law. I enjoyed portraying these professionals with a fresh, dynamic feel. “The Landing” was a second HOME concept, based on the client’s idea of a journey: I imagined the platform as an island where they arrived safely to build something meaningful. Home Home (version2) About Us Interviews Research Pathways News Teaching Horizons Reviews Proposal Drafts
Migrantes
For this illustration, I was given complete creative freedom to interpret the theme of travel and rootlessness. I took a poetic route, inspired by migratory birds, and fell in love with grey storks. I portrayed their journey, placing them low over the water to play with reflections and evoke a glimpse of Provence, as the client is French.
Making a comeback
“Amid Hong Kong launching its global promotion campaign after three years of strict COVID-19 restrictions, Nicky Burridge talks to Institute members working in the tourism sector about how organizations are positioning themselves for the rebound, and the role CPAs play in helping the sector take advantage of the tourism revival.”
How do Civil Society Actors in Italy and Sweden address the needs of migrant women with precarious legal status experiencing GBV?
Starting from the analysis of the written report, I created a series of illustrations that visually interpret the complex journey of migrant women with precarious legal status. The images evoke their condition of invisibility, vulnerability, and resilience, while highlighting the role of civil society actors involved in providing support and protection. Using a visual language that balances metaphor and realism, I aimed to represent not only the factual dimensions but also the underlying tensions, connections, and possibilities. Each illustration corresponds to a thematic section of the report, transforming legal and social concepts into symbolic forms that invite reflection, empathy, and critical engagement.
Ettore The Great
The Puglieser is one of many imaginary magazines inspired by The New Yorker covers, showcasing various illustrators. This issue focused on themes from Puglia, my home region. I was assigned the “Disfida di Barletta.” After studying the historical duel and creating several sketches, I chose a side view composition—as if watching from the edge of the field. I gave the piece a protagonist: Ettore Fieramosca, the Italian knight who led the troops. I affectionately called him “Ettorone” a nickname that means ‘Ettore the Great’, throughout the process. I researched heraldry and armor, applying emblems to the knights based on their regions, imagining them approaching from the left. My goal was a visual style balanced between cartoon and painting—ironic yet full of character. The composition also allowed for a glimpse of the countryside. I had fun working on the battlefield textures, aiming for a camouflage blend of dry soil and wild grass to reflect the land of Puglia.
The Talent Challenge
“The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the foundations of what it means to be happily employed. Beyond having a better salary or a corner office with the best view, employees now have other requirements – and companies are struggling to keep up.”
Scherzi di Anton Čechov
This series of posters, created for Scherzi — a theatrical staging of Anton Chekhov’s one-act comedies (The Bear, A Marriage Proposal, and A Tragic Role) — explores the tragicomic essence of everyday life through irony and subtle visual cues.Rather than focusing on the protagonists’ overt drama, the illustrations highlight secondary elements — the caged canary, the indifferent dogs, the portrait of the deceased husband — which quietly upstage the human characters. These details, absurd yet tender, become symbolic anchors that both diminish and illuminate the human struggle, echoing Chekhov’s vision of fragile individuals entangled in trivial conflicts.The result is a visual narrative that blends humor with melancholy, borrowing from theatrical lighting and composition to achieve immediacy, while inviting viewers to notice layers of irony and meaning at a closer look. In these images, life’s chaos is not resolved, but gently mocked — just as Chekhov himself might have intended.
(This is not) Protect Ya Neck – Wu Tang Clan
Tinals is an independent project that transforms VHS and tape boxes into illustrated art pieces inspired by songs and films. Their catalog lacked a rap and hip hop section—genres I love. I chose to illustrate one of the most iconic and cross-generational tracks, Wu-Tang Clan’s “Protect Ya Neck.” I created a horizontal storytelling layout that visually narrates the legendary intro and the explosive impact of the track upon release, without forgetting the martial arts and Eastern references that define the group’s identity.
La tua più bella estate italiana
Marinobus Summer campain illustrations. I took inspiration from the travel agency posters of the 1920s to 1950s, capturing that nostalgic vibe. The star of the posters is none other than the company’s very first bus.