Hi, this is Mari!

My name is Mariachiara, I'm a graphic designer, born, raised and currently based (ah-ah, that's a rhyme!) in Italy, and this is my temporary website. I recently graduated at ISIA U, MA in Graphic Design and Communication for Publishing. The works I've been involved in so far focus on publishing and visual identities. I like to think that graphic design can be a tool to understand our world, to which extent I don't know, yet. I like to interpolate with other fields and build huge mind-connections. I guess that's why I like to reasearch and pursue my questions, trying to find one of the many answers, because it gives me the illusion I'm getting to know truths, reasons and sense of this world! Check the Curriculum Vitae/About section to know a little bit more about me!

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Graphic design for CARTOLINE, Suoni e vinili da tutto il mondo, for MAT Laboratorio Urbano and Musa Storie d’Aperitivo.

Applications included: digital cards, facebook banner event, instagram stories.

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Graphic design for Sunny Days events, for MAT Laboratorio Urbano.

Applications included: digital cards for artists, musicians and talks, facebook banner events, instagram stories.

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Applications design for Apulia Music Farm, for MAT Laboratorio Urbano. Graphic design concept by Nicola Sportoso, music by Stefano Palmieri.

Applications included: digital cards for musicians, instagram stories, facebook banner events, animated transitions, animated instagram stories, animation for adv posts.

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Graphic design for Apulian Views VR Experience, for MAT Laboratorio Urbano.

Applications included: digital cards for visual artists, musicians, facebook banner events, website banner, instagram stories, animation for adv posts.

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Set of illustrated postcards for http://www.ujazz.it/

Ink and digital colour

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Crowned King Illustration for Giardini Immaginari festival (31.07.21) Ecoline and colored pencils

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Set of instagram posts for Inferno5 open call - FIAMME #4, yearly zine.

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The Proverbial Cat of Publishing Research about Distaff, first and ever New Orleans’s feminist magazine. It is part of Feminist Findings, collective research edited and curated by Futuress.  L.i.P. Collective workshop initiated by le Signe, the NationalCenter for Graphics in Chaumont, France in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and led by Corin Gisel and Nina Paim (common-interest) and journalist Madeleine Morley.

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FIAMME#3 - World Wide Web

The third issue of Fiamme deals with the theme of the internet, now a sheer presence in our lives. What relationships do we establish with this fascinating world? We tried to explore it from diverse points of view, with illustrations and articles collected with an open call. The zine features two exclusive interviews that address the internet related to music, e-learning, and publishing.

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SOMA, SPAZIO E AZIONE - Tentativo di esaurimento di un’escursione somatica in uno spazio It’s my MA thesis project, for which I’ve designed a website (my first ever, from scratch!) that collects my reasearch and the outcome. It investigates our body as a mean to be aware of places and our relationship with them, but also as a design process (a tool), producing somatic and aesthetic excursions in the space through walking and active perception. The outcome represent both the body and the walked space in a specific time and psycho-physical conditions, in a relationship of mutual determination.

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Megamacchina Starting from the analysis of Sovietskiy Soyuz, one of the leading magazines of the period, we analyzed the historical and political context of the publication and the Soviet propaganda led during the Stalinist period until USSR’s dissolution. By comparing it with similar russian magazines of the time, we understood the systematic nature, the themes and the representation of the propaganda, the way it was spread and also how the anticommunist propaganda led by UK and USA in the 50ies tried to neutralize the Soviet one. Collab with Valeria Santamaria History and culture of graphic design, supervised by Silvia Sfligiotti, ISIA, Urbino, 2019/2020 

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Discreetly personal + Matter of Art exhibition In 2020 Santarcangelo Festival will celebrate its 50th edition, an important event full of history. During its fifty years the Festival has collected not only a story to tell, but also a story composed of visual texts. From the beginning our interest has been to better understand the relationship between the Festival itself, the city of Santarcangelo and its citizens. We became the protagonists of our own project: documenting our journey and our research. In addition to reporting our experience in a logbook, during our journey we investigated and asked to the audience some questions related to freedom, art and freedom in art, aiming to identify the relationships / reactions of the individual to themes connected to the theater and its expressive forms. The series of posters presented at the Baldini Municipal Library (Santarcangelo di Romagna) on 6 July 2019 as a conclusion to our journey are a general data visualization of the collected answers, one for each question. Following the modus operandi carried on along throughout the investigation, as a final gesture we invited visitors to answer a last question with a sticker: Would you like to be an artist ? Collab with Joanna Pellizer and Salvatore Santarsiero Project’s methodology, supervised by Marco Tortoioli Ricci, ISIA, Urbino, 2018/2019 more on Behance

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DIS — NESSI The project aimed to raise funds for the Civil Protection of the Apulian Region, helping with Covid-19 emergency. Inspired by the famous game cadavre exquis,  20 Apulian designers have combined pencils, markers and papers with 20 other colleagues who are located in other parts of the world. The couples (separated by the long distance and unaware of each other's work) created a drawing. The drawings made have been assembled and become a single inseparable one. Illustrated with Joanna Pellizer(up)

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Scatola Enne box n. 4 Illustration for Nicole Depergola, music photographer, and her project Scatola Enne. Box n.4, Levante

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INTERWEAVING AND PUBLIC SPACES, a spontaneous aggregation ​​​​​​​ We decided to appropriate a space and carry out a collective activity open to anyone who wants to join. We have thus decided to develop a series of days dedicated to the weaving of a series of small elements, then joined all together to form what will be the concretization of this appropriation of a public place. Action and participation are two key words of the project. When those activities that are usually performed on their own and in private places are transported to unusual places and carried out collectively, they inevitably establish relationships and dynamics within the place and those who are part of it every day. Everything that happens inside a place is absorbed and intertwined to form the spirit of the place as we know it.  Collab with Joanna Pellizer, Claudia Dagostino and Francesca Tebaldini Communication design, supervised by Patrick Lacey, ISIA, Urbino, 2018/2019 more on Behance

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Fiamme #2 - FUORISEDE The second issue of Fiamme, the collective zine published by Inferno 5. The second issue explores the imaginary of the “off-site”, not only in university terms but also in a more generic way.The imaginary is made of personal archive photos, illustrations, collages, graphic elaborations and texts, all accompanied by a special attachment by Altalena Fanzine and the classic irony of Inferno5. The material collected was paginated, printed and bound by the team. Given its nature, the rights of the zine belong to all the collaborators.

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La Controra Animation for La Controra and its coworking space. Realized with Claudia Dagostino and Valeria Santamaria for TUTTE Collective.  Stormi - IOSONOUNCANE (Soundtrack)