TAKEAWAY: Massimo Gentile, design director at Italy’s Il Secolo XIX, is not just designing newspaper pages all day. The talented Massimo also tries to do a type illustration a day. Here are some of his most recent ones.
While most of us look at type catalogs and admire the curvatures, ligatures and overall feeling that a letterform presents to us, Massimo Gentile, design director at Italy’s Il Secolo XIX, takes it all one step further.
“I like to work with type to make statements. Maybe some of these things have been done before, and that is OK, one does not have to be the first, but , for me, this is like daily therapy,“ Massimo tells me.
In fact, Massimo made a 2012 resolution: to create one of these type mini posters everyday. So far, we think he is keeping his promise.
Here I post some of Massimo’s creations for you to enjoy.