Books

After reading books I love, I redesign their covers—a way of making them permanently mine. I work within strict constraints: minimal visual elements and only the five typefaces Massimo Vignelli championed. Good design, after all, emerges from working within limitations, not despite them.

The Tempest

William Shakespeare, 1611.
The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967.
M: The Son of the Century

Antonio Scurati, 2018.
Circe

Madeline Miller, 2018.
Uno, nessuno e centomilla

Luigi Pirandello, 1926.
Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare, 1599.
Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Youcenar, 1951.
Quo Vadis

Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896.
2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke, 1968.
Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson, 2017.
Fascism, a warning

Madeleine Albright, 2018.
Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man

Barbara Reynolds, 2006.
Damn Good Advice

George Lois, 2012.
All’arme! All’arme! I priori fanno carne!

Alessandro Barbero, 2023.