He deals with lettering and typography in all its aspects, from type design to logo design.
In 2020, he received recognition for typographic excellence from the Type Directors Club of New York and in 2022 from the Type Directors Club of Tokyo.
In addition to his professional activities, he is also involved in research and teaching. He teaches History and typographic culture at CFP Bauer, NABA, the Politecnico and the Scuola Internazionale Comics in Milan.
He founded the editorial collective ‘Tazi Zine’ and curates the digital archive ‘Lettere urbane’.

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS:

May 2024
SIGNS 3 @Graphic Days Torino
SIGNS 3 @Biennale Internazionale Grafica

2023
ADI Design Index

2022
Certificate of Excellent Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo

February 2022 – March 2022
Exhibition ‘Tales from inside_out, the look through’ (collective)

2021
Exhibition ‘Il mestiere di grafico oggi’ @Triennale (collective)

2021
ADI Design Index

2021
Exhibition ‘La Gran Bissa de Milàn’ (curatorship)

2021
Exhibition ‘Oggetto Libro’ (collective)

2021
Exhibition ‘Art.32 - Salute pubblica, bene comune’ (collective)

2021
Exhibition ‘singolare/plurale’ @Torino Graphic days (collective)

2020
Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Type Directors Club New York

2020
‘DAC, Designers Against Coronavirus’ (digital exhibition)

2020
‘Signs for, l’educazione non si ferma’ (digital exhibition)

July 2020 – September 2020
Exhibition ‘Osserva le distanze / esercita il pensiero’ (collective)

October 2019 – February 2020
Exhibition ‘Italian Design’ @Taiwan Design Center Museum (collective)

June 2019
Exhibition ‘Abecedario Meneghino’ (curatorship)

November 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
Sprint Milano (collective)

November 2018
Mostra Aiap Book Community (collettiva)
Mostra Oggetto Libro (collettiva)

October 2018
Exhibition ‘Ubuntu - I am because we are’ (collective)

January 2018
Among the 10 winners of the ‘1938 razzisti per legge’ contest organised by Aiap, Isrec Bergamo and the Comune di Bergamo

TALK:

20 May 2025
‘Fare e collezionare specimen tipografici’ with Claudio Madella @ADI Design Museum

15 July 2024
‘Dig deeper share knowledge’ with Luca Barcellona for CFP Bauer @BASE Milano

7 November 2023
‘Lettere urbane’ @profili seriali

18 May 2023
Type Thursday Milano

3 November 2022
‘Design e tipografia’ @Elgasi podcast

9 September 2022
‘Il senso del carattere’ with CAST foundry @Letterpress workers 

10 June 2022
‘Tazi Zine’ @Spazio eufemia

7 April 2022
‘Milano Graphic Festival’ @Future Brand

17 February 2022
‘Italian Graffiti’ with James Clough @ Associazione Calligrafica Italiana

25 March 2021
Type Thursday Firenze

11 April 2019
Ready steady Go – Unlimited design talks

TEACHING:

2024
Graphic design serale @CFP Bauer

15 September 2024
Workshop ‘Gruppo tipografico’ @Gomma Festival

13 April 2024
Workshop ‘Modular type’ @Scuola Internazionale Comics

February 2024 – today
History and typographic culture @Scuola Internazionale Comics

30 September 2023
Workshop ‘Extreme typography’ @CAVE Modena

10 July 2023
Workshop ‘Tipografia Balneare’ @La Barca Ortigia

March 2023 – May 2023
Laboratorio tipografico @CFP Bauer

February 2023 – May 2023
Digital print – poster design @CFP Bauer

November 2022 – oggi
History and typographic culture master @NABA

November 2022 – oggi
History and typographic culture co-teacher @Politecnico di Milano

June 2022
Workshop ‘Tipografia collettiva’ @Spazio eufemia

March 2022
Workshop ‘Modular type’ @NABA

March 2022
Workshop ‘First think second print’ @Milano Graphic Festival

November 2021
Workshop ‘Grid with type’ @NABA

September 2021
Workshop ‘Tipografia sul Naviglio’ @Cernusco Design Week

October 2020 – oggi
History and typographic culture co-teacher @CFP Bauer

PUBLICATIONS:

2025
Support indipendent type 2 - Slanted Publishers

2024
Typodarium 2025

2023
Typodarium 2024
Catalogue ‘ADI Design Index’

2022
Typodarium 2023
Catalogue ‘TDC 33 (Tokyo Type Directors Club)’

2021
Typodarium 2022
Catalogue ‘Oggetto Libro’
Catalogue ‘ADI Design Index’

2020
Catalogue ‘TDC 41 (New York Type Directors Club)’
Catalogue ‘DAC (Designers Against Coronavirus)’
Catalogue ‘Osserva le distanze / esercita il pensiero’

2018
Catalogue ‘Oggetto Libro’

© Fabrizio Falcone 2020 - Credits