no.2

in case you missed it - here's my second contribution to the armad'illo advent calendar. happy holidays!

is / was

back from a super-intense (and fun) week in warsaw, and of course i'm ill again. it's becoming a holiday tradition. 

złote pszczoły

woohoo, it's here! the comic anthology I collaborated on in September is finally out! Beautifully designed by Fontarte, with comics drawn by Malwina Konopacka, Agata Nowicka, Olga Wróbel, Joanna Jurczak, Anna Czarnota and myself.
Conceived and written by Monika Powalisz, the anthology is made up of six different stories, and is a great insight into the life of Warsaw Jews in the1920s and 1930s.  

 

The book is a super-limited release, as it won't even be available in bookshops, but i'll post some pages from the comic on my website soon. For any hypothetical Warsaw readers - there's a book release meeting and debate tomorrow, December 16th, at Chłodna 25. 18.30 is the time. Why did I write this last bit in English? This really makes no sense :)

armad'illo advent calendar!

here's my first contribution the the advent calendar studio armad'illo is running throughout december... i hope you like it! (i also hope that all the presents you get this year are great!)

each day, a new image by one of the studio members comes up, so check the page regularly :) 

you can also follow us on facebook! over here.

in other news, it is almost freakishly warm out here this week, i had a nice long walk today and a coffee in the sun... luckily, in a couple of days i'm flying back to warsaw to get my dose of the proper, cold and dark northern winter. phew!

topipittori / studio armad'illo

There's an article about were i work on the Topipittori illustration blog! 

Here's the story: a few months ago, me and 8 other illustrators got together and created a common workspace for illustrators. We all met last year at a postgraduate illustration course (here) and decided to keep working together. We are called Studio Armad'illo (yes, like the animal; it can also stand for Arma d'Illustrazione in Massa, or 'weapon of mass illustration ;). So far it's been great! Here you will find links to the pages of my co-workers: http://www.studioarmadillo.it/

We work in Viale Gorizia, in a vaguely fashion-y area of Milan, so there's a lot of ridiculously good-looking people around.  Here's what waiting for the subway usually looks like for me:

postcards and creatures

well this is some exciting news! you can now send my drawings as postcards through the awesome petite poste site. the site lets you send them out both as online cards and actual physical printed postcards. yay!

apart from that - in october i did some black-and-white illustrations for a little book, to be published soon.. here's a little sneak peek:

catching up

oh no, i'm super behind with posting again.. and i do have quite a bit to share. so, first up - my first Italian magazine cover! it is for a Florence-based literary magazine that focuses on children's literature. this month's topic was death in children's books. i'm still struggling with more conceptual work, but i'm pretty happy with how it came out. (and more than happy to see my work in print! whee!)