emilio macchia

EMILIO MACCHIA
me(at)emiliomacchia(dot)com
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YOU'RE A SKUNK - BOOK
A documentary booklet about a process.
THE LAST SUPPER
Created in collaboration with VosBrenner, The Last Supper explores the process of the project in a series of informal conversations on location at five specific sites in The Netherlands between 13.01–31.01.10. This publication was produced specifically for the Wildeweten Wilde Boek Markt.
CITY TALKINGS POSTER
a poster for an exhibition of letterpress posters collected from urbino curated by me,
in occasion of the summerschool 2009, Werkplaats Typografie - ISIA
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
an interactive-typographic installation inspired by the song Across the Universe by John Lennon (launch the application). Made at ISIA Urbino with Müge Yilmaz and Justin Windle.
PARTY !
LEKTON
Open-source Monospaced Typeface made during a typedesign class at ISIA Urbino for a typographical installation at the Archivio storico Olivetti of Ivrea. Download lekton, and see all the contributors.
ASS CULT STRATIVARI
Visual and language identity for a cultural association.
Launch website.
YOUR MESSAGE HERE
I asked to a very old letterpress print-shop to “non-design” and print a 50-70 cm poster for me. I gave them just a text, explaining what I wanted to comunicate in terms of hierarchy.
The purpose of this project was to investigate how a non designer understands a hierarchical information system and how he reacts through the use of the typography.
AMPA AMPA BOAMPA BANANA FANNA FO-FAMPA FEE-FY-MO MAMPA AMPA
A hand-made flyer for a b-day party in rotterdam. The concept is based on the name game song by Shirley Allis.
Green + red HEMA marker; green HEMA ink roller pen on HEMA kladblok recycled grey paper
CITY TALKINGS BOOK
a poster for an exhibition of letterpress posters collected from urbino curated by me,
in occasion of the summerschool 2009, Werkplaats Typografie - ISIA
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - BOOK
a booklet about an interactive-typographic installation inspired by the song Across the Universe by John Lennon.
ITALIA - PIZZA - SPAGHETTI - MAFIA - MANDOLINO - BERLUSCONI - BAFFI
A poster made in occasion of the summerschool 2009, Werkplaats Typografie - ISIA Urbino.
SECESSION, SECESSION!
Glitch typography experiments. Dot ink matrix printer.
YOU'RE A SKUNK!!
A self iniciated project in collaboration with Mouch. A series of modular hand painted posters about the coding process. Each poster is pasted up in different spots in the city and is connected to the others by a 2D semacode that refers to a fixed point in google maps.
TRACKING ROTTERDAM
An interdisciplinary interactive performance-installation created by composer and computer artist Michal Osowski composed of electronic music, paintings. Michal asked me to design a logo and I proposed him to develope a generative system to design automatically the logo, combining a static typography and a kinetic diagram.
ME @ IED BARCELONA
My friends Luca Bendandi and Matteo Cossu (SHS) teachers at IED Barcelona, invited me to give a workshop to 1st year lettering course students. We produced a celebratory hand-pulled silkscreen poster in a limited edition of 23 copies
100•000•000 URBAN SONNETS
A self iniciated project inspired by cent milles milliard de poémes by Raimond Queneau..
GRIGNANI
A tribute poster for Franco Grignani.
PRESS TO ATTACK - POCKET
Press to attack google language tools pocket version.
PRESS TO ATTACK
A self iniciated research book about the clandestine publishing in the netherlands during the second world war 1940-1945. Made in collaboration with Leonardo Sonnoli as school final project.
24 STROKES
A handmade illustrated book to try the 24 tools I have in my special derwent case.
RECICLABLE MERRY XMAS
A merry christmas recyclable poster, 10x.
INTO THE WILD
Into the wild booklet. made at ERG, Bruxelles..
CASABELLA 769
Cover design. A project by Tassinari/Vetta (Paolo Tassinari, Leonardo Sonnoli), Trieste.