Italy — VISUALOUNGE

Tipi di Bologna

Tipi di Bologna is a limited-edition book of illustrated stories about Bologna's typographers and engravers, printed and bound by hand.

Italian artist Millo paints site-specific street murals in black and white with touches of red and green. His latest is In Bloom in Milan.

Marco Oggian's Quote(s) of the week: STAY TRUE stacked in black glyphs on white, and ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE SPECIAL in white on black.

Rome illustrator Andrea Chronopoulos crams his scenes with detail and jokes — thick black outlines, saturated colour and circular insets doing the…

Mirko Camia's Alphamix turns letters into objects: a candle A with a lit wick, a glass B filled with faceted orange shapes.

Andrea Bianchi designs the Grand Budapest Hotel's stationery as 1930s paperwork, in cream on pink.

Moss-wrapped laurel trees and a rock peak, then a hillside village glowing orange in night mist: the Canary Islands by Lukas Furlan.

Blu's Italian mural spirals from hunter-gatherers and dinosaurs down to a single white cell, under a scroll of pyramids, factories and falling ruins.

Claudio Parentela cuts photographs of faces into collages, covering them with patterned paper, black wheels, leopard spots and pink scribbles.

Officemilano's Write Sketch & Super! notebooks come in four sets of two A6 books, pairing a plain colour cover with a geometric one.

La Tigre's four Manerba office system catalogues: one colour, paper and finishing per system, staged as objects on a white pegboard.

UK designer and illustrator Daniele Simonelli builds his imagery from texture and colour.

Felicita Sala draws recipes as labelled diagrams, each ingredient painted by hand in watercolour and ink.

Giuseppe Randazzo arranges hundreds of stones into circular fields, a monumental image produced by a computational process.