ITALY | graphic designer | typographer
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Born in Trieste, 1962, Leonardo Sonnoli is currently a partner of Tassinari/Vetta office with Paolo Tassinari. He is involved with the visual identity of private and public companies, and the communications of cultural events, book design, signage systems and exhibition graphics. Sonnoli is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (2000-), being elected as its Italy President (2003) and is a member of the AGI International Executive Committee. He is teaching Typography at the Faculty of Design and Arts at Iuav University in Venice, and Editorial design at the ISIA - High Institute of Industrial Arts in Urbino, while living and working between Rimini and Trieste. His works have been exhibited in several group exhibitions - 4:3; 50 years of Italian and German Design, Bonn; Black and white, at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Zurich; a solo exhibition, Leonardo Sonnoli and the town of Pesaro, Chaumont; 8 graphic designers, Ningbo, China; HamDast; The 5th Color + Leonardo Sonnoli, Tehran. His posters are in several public and private collections such as the BNF, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Museum of Design in Zurich. Renowned for his powerful and often typographic posters, Leonardo Sonnoli is one of Italy’s most visually expressive graphic designers. “When I’ve nothing to say I write it in bold.”
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L E C T U R E | 0930h | 13.02.09 | view programme
An egg is not a potato
The title of Leonardo Sonnoli’s opening lecture comes from an anecdote of his early professional career. “Not skilled for manual work and illustration, I found the use of types more suitable. The inspiration I got was from a few books in my library – from poems to essays, from literature to design – these books taught me many different ways to think about letters”. Using a chaptered sequence, ‘before/after’, Sonnoli will show these books that inspired him, and his own works that he has made over the course of his career.
FOR MORE >> www.sonnoli.com
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About the posters
S.ex. Sonnoli’s exhibition, 2007, 98 x 68, printed in
offset with one ink (metallic) in one plate and four inks (fluoro and
black) in another plate (graduation made directly in printing without
screen) | Tribute to Gianfranco Grignani, 2001 | 15- fifteen posters in fifteen meters, 2007, Rhode Island School of Design, 98 x 68, printed in offset 4 process colors
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