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A pretty tiny zine about certain feelings of relief in our everyday struggles.

A3 folded sheet of rough paper, 130grs.

English + Italian text.

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Original artworks are ink drawings on cheap paper

First edition: July 2017

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• digital print, color, printed on both sides

• size: A6 (folded), A3 (open)

• folded by hand

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Giorno d’estate

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Un libro da colorare e da disegnare, grande poco meno di un A4, stampato in bianco e nero. I disegni sono morbidi e imperfetti, per non spaventare nessuno, e in ogni pagina c'è un tocco di colore aggiunto a mano con dei timbri preparati appositamente per questa storia.

GIORNO D’ESTATE è un libro per bambini e per tutti, dedicato alla leggerezza dell’estate e delle vacanze - quelle che, quando ero piccola io, ogni giorno era un’avventura e non finivano mai.

20 pagine di disegni e di spazi bianchi, da colorare e da riempire come vi pare. Senza aver paura di sbagliare.

Original artworks are black ink drawings on thin paper.

First printed in May 2017

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• digital print, black and white, on a 160gr high-quality Fedrigoni paper, matte, smooth and uncoated. The cover is printed on a beautiful 300 gr high-quality hammered white paper.

• size: 19 x 24,5 cm (folded), 38 x 24,5 cm (open) // 7.5 x 9.6 inches (folded), 15’’ x 9.6’’ (open)

• binding staple

• printed by hand with hand-carved rubber stamps in each page

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- - - - - - - - - - Corpo Celeste - - - - - - - - - - ☆ Fourth title published with the self-publishing label Red Boots ☆ 'Corpo Celeste' is a 20 pages picture book, written and illustrated by me (Anna Masini aka Ninamasina) and it's a short 'bildungsroman' looking at life through the eyes of a little star from the deep blue sky. I have always been inspired by what's above us: all shades of blue, the night starry sky and then the birds, the constellations, any story about stars and the celestial bodies. Original artworks are juxtapositions of ink paintings on paper and ink drawings on acetate and glass.

First edition: May 2016

Second run: September 2016

- - - - - - - - - - • offset lithographic print in colors on a 120gr high-quality Fedrigoni matte paper • 300gr Fedrigoni matte paper for the cover • cut, folded and stitched by hand by me • ten illustrated pages + cover and endpapers • 12.5 x 17.5 cm  4.9'' x 6.8'' • English translation available

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Souvenir - - - - - - - - - - Third title for Red Boots books, Souvenir is a small collection of memories from infance, when feelings were so strong and sometimes difficult to understand, when joy gave giddiness and loneliness made us feel so cold. I have been inspired by my own recollections and by those that friends and people have told me, by the way, during the years. Original artworks are monotypes. A short text accompanies the illustrations.

First edition: March 2015

Second run: October 2015

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Have a sneakpeak here to know more about the intentions of this project and the process (Italian only)

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Nom de plume

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A book, a bestiary, an accordion, a colouring book...

Non de Plume is a very long accordion book and a collection of portraits of birds as they were some human types: each of them has a little story with his habits, whishes, peculiarities. Each of them has been inspired by some real birds, tha't why the last page of this book is an index with their latin names. On the back side, on a long long branch, you can draw and color and write everything you want!

* size: 9 x 14 cm (closed) and it becomes long more than 2 mt once opened * limited edition of 50, numbered on the back cover * digitally printed on Fedrigoni high quality paper * folded and binded by hand, one by one: that's why each copy could be slightly different

First edition: October 2015

Limited edition of 50 copies, numbered.

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Aria

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Aria is a silent hymn to the beauty of birds and their flight. A tiny picture-book without words, printed black and white, with swallows on one side (4 pages) and the entire flock on the other (1 big page or poster). There's some white space enough in each page to write down some note, draw or to dedicate it.

Original artworks are pencil drawings on a thick cardboard.

First edition: March 2014

Second run: April 2014

Third run: March 2016

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• offset lithographic print, black and white, on a 300gr high-quality Fedrigoni paper, matte, smooth and uncoated

• size: 7,5 x 10,5 cm (folded), 29,7 x 21 cm (open) // 3 x 4 inches (folded), 11.7'' x 8.3'' (open)

• cut and folded by hand by me

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