The Hand of the Graphic Designer opened on Friday, April 8th 2011, an exhibition organized by FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano and alterstudio partners. On display there are a total of 367 signed drawings and sketches, generously donated to FAI, realized by 108 leading italian and international graphic designers.

There are also some of bastard’s friends, like Olimpia Zagnoli and Leftloft, among other graphic designers, in a breath taking location, Villa Necchi Campiglio.

More info on lamanodelgrafico.it

…meaning what Olimpia Zagnoli has in her mind.

Olimpia, well known illustrator here and overseas for her vintage graphic aestethics and her nice color palettes, in this recent interview narrates about a more or less recent past, the present in constant turmoil and about an all creative near future.

Just for this season available for him and her…  :)

In this video that resumes her recent lecture at AIGA/NY she talks about herself, her inspiration sources and her work in New York.

Here below the customized shades by Olimpia Zagnoli, Scarful and Cento Canesio for the Art Shade Expo at bastard store.

Olimpia brings her colorful universe, overpainting every corner of her BPM shade, including lenses.

Scarful worked on the surface, drilling and digging a pair of Detroit with a Dremel and other sharp tools.

Cento Canesio gave birth to a bicolor version of the Hardknox, applying his iconography on it through a thin black marker on gray spraypaint.

On Thursday June 10th, 6pm to 9pm, Electric presents Art Shade Expo at the bastard store in Milano.

Pick three artists, give’em a pair of Electric shades each and wait for their own custumize version.

The artists we picked for the italian edition are Olimpia Zagnoli, Scarful and Cento Canesio.

Olimpia Zagnoli was born in Reggio Emilia in 1984.
She moves to Milano where she graduates at IED school. Soon after she starts working for several magazines in Italy and abroad. Her clients include the New York Times, the New Yorker, il Corriere della Sera, Feltrinelli, Io Donna.

Alessandro Maida a.k.a. Scarful was born in 1968 and he’s a Rome based artist and designer. After his artistic and university studies in Architecture and Design, he became interested in all things pertaining to graphics/illustration and lettering and began working as a graphic artist, creating the Hateful Graphic Vandals collective (1995) together with other writers/artists from the Roman scene. This brought about his first graphic creations under the name of Scarful. He is a member of the WHY STYLE group, together with artists Joe, Nico, Pane and Stand, with whom he has taken part in exhibitions and events since 2003.

Cento Canesio, artist from Veneto born in 1974.
Since 1989 he started being influenced by the skateboarding, writing and the music scene that came along.
He’s already collaborated with: Lobster, Vans, Strange skateboards and bastard.

bastard store – via Scipio Slataper, 19 – Milano [here the Google map].