He was born in Montescaglioso (MT), where he has lived and worked as a graphic designer since 1986. He graduated from the set design course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He collaborated with Mario Cresci in Matera. From 1999 to 2006, he served as a councillor for Aiap. He is a lecturer at ISIA in Urbino. Since 2017, he has been a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Communication & Marketing Manager, for twenty years she has navigated within (and outside) the broad perimeter of communication: print newspapers, radio, blogs, communities and social media, online advertising, content marketing, strategy, training and public speaking. Always without a precise map, but with a firm compass: doing to understand rather than understanding to do.

Graphic and motion designer and co-founder of GG―OFFICE with a strong focus on typography. After studying at IED in Milan and collaborating with various organisations, including ZERO and Cromazoo, he decided to return to Sicily. In 2019 and 2022, some of his animation work was selected for Demo Festival, an event organised by Studio Dumbar that brings together designers from all over the world in Amsterdam.

He is an Interaction Designer and Frontend Developer. In 2014 he co-founded the Studio Super Santos collective, in 2015 he joined the team at Lava Design in Amsterdam (NL) and since 2016 he has been a freelancer with no fixed base. His personal research is aimed at exploring the Internet as an artistic material, through experiments with code and social media performances.

Curatrice, nella sua pratica indaga il modo in cui le infrastrutture energetiche e le epistemologie estrattive plasmano condizioni diseguali di visibilità, con una ricerca situata tra l’Europa sudorientale e l’Asia orientale. Collabora ai progetti speciali per CURA. I suoi saggi, recensioni e reader sono stati pubblicati in cataloghi museali e riviste come Mousse, Flash Art, e-flux.
Dal 2019 al 2025 ha sviluppato programmi pubblici e simposi per il Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. È Rome Prize Fellow in Curatorial Research presso l’American Academy di Roma.

Giacomo Boffo is a designer based in Bologna, specialising in digital, editorial and branding design for the cultural, art and design sectors. He has collaborated, among others, with the Folch and Apartamento studios (Barcelona) and Blanco (Reggio Emilia). He teaches at IED (Milan), Quasar Institute (Rome) and ABADIR Academy (Catania), where he also holds the role of Coordinator for the First Level Master's Degree in Visual Communication and Art Direction, as well as lecturer in Brand Design.

Mauro Maugeri is a director of commercials and documentaries. In his work, he handles all aspects of production, particularly writing, directing and cinematography. Since 2005, he has been an active member of the Scarti Cultural Association, which has been involved in the production and promotion of short films for years. He won a special mention in the I LOVE GAI section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. Over the years, he has collaborated with Rai, Mediaset, the Vodafone Italia Foundation, and Eni-Snam.

Melani De Luca is a designer, researcher and artist. Her work is a critical reflection on contemporary cultural phenomena and their influence on society. In 2017 she published her first book entitled Post-Butt, The Power of the Image with Onomatopee, Eindhoven. She is currently a PhD candidate in Design Sciences at IUAV, conducting research on labour processes in visual identity projects and their potential expansion through artificial intelligence.

Francesco Scagliarini is a partner at studio FM milano, a practice specialising in graphic design and visual identity creation, exhibition design, signage, exhibitions, installations and digital experiences across diverse fields such as culture, architecture, art, design, institutions and industry. Scagliarini is a designer specialising in editorial design, visual communication and wayfinding design. He teaches at the Politecnico di Milano and the ABADIR Academy in Catania.

Vincenzo Castellana works on projects in architecture, design and communication. He is Director of the Master’s programme in Strategic Design and Creative Direction at Abadir, an adjunct lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano, and has previously taught on the Master’s programme in Design Management at IULM. He received a Compasso d’Oro / Honourable Mention in the Corporate Research category. In 2008, he founded ADI Sicilia alongside Vanni Pasca, with whom he would go on to spend nearly two decades promoting the productive and educational values of design.

Massimo Siragusa is a photographer and Editorial Director at Phaos Edizioni. His photographs feature in the permanent collections of the Vatican Museums, the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the Mart in Rovereto and the Museum of Rome in Trastevere. He has collaborated with numerous public institutions and private foundations on publishing and exhibition projects and, through his corporate work, has captured the identity of many of Italy’s most prestigious companies. He is the author of twelve books and the winner of four World Press Photo Awards and three Sony Awards. He divides his time between Rome and Catania.

Education: architect. Occupation: publisher and editorial graphic designer at LetteraVentidue. Interests: history of architecture, design, science fiction, cooking. He graduated in Syracuse, where he collaborated with the NOWA studio on design competitions and project research, and as an event coordinator with “Erremix”. Since 2016, he has been organising trips exploring architecture, art and design with “NoHoleNoBears”.

Paolo Casicci is a journalist, content curator and lecturer in design. After working for fifteen years at the daily newspaper *La Repubblica*, in 2019 he founded the communications agencies *The Design Cut* and *DigiTale We Share Design*, through which he creates editorial content for some of the leading Italian and international design brands. Through the web magazine Cieloterradesign, founded in 2015, he explores and promotes design culture. He writes for specialist magazines and teaches at Rome’s leading design universities and academies. A member of the ADI Lazio executive committee, he believes in communication not merely as dissemination, but as a form of design in its own right, aimed at constructing new meaning.

Elisea is a Sicilian designer with a background in graphic design and UX/UI design.
From Abadiriana, over the years she has developed a strong passion for technology and innovation, which today leads her to lead the design department of YOMI, the only Web3-specialised company in Sicily.
In April 2024 he founded The Ragusaner together with Virginia Boncoraglio and Sara Cigna, a fictitious magazine that depicts the Ragusa province through art. The project acts as a showcase for local and non-local artists, with the aim of creating connections and activating the local area.

Elisabetta Laviano is a graphic and editorial designer who graduated from ISIA in Urbino and the ABADIR Academy in Catania. Her work focuses on visual communication and editorial design, where research and experimentation intertwine in an ongoing dialogue between analogue and digital languages.

An independent researcher in architecture, society and art, with a PhD in Architecture and Urban Phenomenology from UniBas, he is a co-founder of the Studio++ artists’ collective and coordinates the independent research group Architecture of Shame. He taught at the University of Florence and was a fellow on the programme Art, Culture and Technology from MIT in Boston (USA). She co-curated the exhibitions From 1:100. Gender equality in your life for Farm Cultural Park in Favara (AG) and Basilicata  in New York, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Turin. He writes scientific articles and essays on the relationships between plants, space, society and art. For Letteraventidue he has published: Atlas of Shame. A collective psychoanalytic session for European architecture (2020) e Pop Housing. New imagery for social housing (2022).

Francesco Cusumano (Ragusa, 1978) is a creative director with experience in multidisciplinary design. A graduate in Communication Design from the Politecnico di Milano, he has led visual identity, branding, advertising and exhibition design projects for clients in Italy and Spain. He is creative director of Nomad Studio Publishing as well as having been founder and creative director of the independent magazine Suq. Unconventional Sicily. His research is distinguished by a transversal approach, capable of integrating concept, metaproject and art direction.