Smile Please, Say Cheese

I am an italian illustrator and designer. I love to draw and I believe that a smile is the cheapest way to be happy, that's why I am always trying to capture the more comical side of life and make it a simple but funny and rememberable work. I take my inspiration from my quiet life, the sweet Giusy, our pugs Ozzy and Nena and Cyrus the Bullmastiff, the Kiss music, vintage Playboy magazines, Seymour Chwast, Raymond Savignac, Ryohei Yanagihara, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti and every funny thing I come across. In 2004 I founded Mutado, a creative studio, in Milan. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. A surly group of of typographers, designers and illustrators were given a simple instruction; celebrate their favorite cuss word, dirty phrase, or filthy mantra through art and type.