Half Full Brewing Co is a fictional brewery created by graphic design graduate Freddie Hall. The concept for the brand emerges from the incredibly high suicide rate among men in the UK: in order to raise awareness about mental health issues, Hall played on the usual sentences that can be heard in pubs, where people can relax and often find a sense of relief after a hard day. Even though alcohol regarding mental health issues is not to be considered a solution because of the risks of alcoholism, the young designer thought of it as a way to normalize opening up about one's own struggling. In a society where gender roles are still strong and the ideal of masculinity represses any demonstration of weakness, the way to free speech about depression is still long.

The identity created for the brewery combines three fonts. Signal Compressed from Production Type is used to set the logotype and some of the typical phrases you can hear at the bar, along with Tobias from Displaay Type Foundry. The technical info is set in Object Sans from Pangram Pangram. This trio ends up in a playful identity where types can switch and appear in speech bubbles, bringing the pun even closer to the reader and reinforcing the effect of phrases picked up from around the table.

The O.T.W. zine is a promotional publication distributed in Vans stores throughout Brazil. It aims to reaffirm the cultural bases of the brand through interviews, articles, and images related to the three main pillars of the Vans universe: action sports (skate, surf and BMX), music, and art.

In 19×25.4 cm format, containing 100 pages printed in offset on Couché Fosco 150g and Offset 90g papers, the publication comes in a silkscreened plastic packaging, and includes three stickers.

Domande a distanza 1971—2021 was born in late 2019 as a research project on museum didactics, aimed to examine the variety of approaches and methodologies applied in this extensive and multifaceted area. In the 2020, following the health emergency, the project turned into a proper opportunity to investigate the crisis situation of cultural venues, aggravated by the forced closure of all, apparently, non-essential activities. What is the role of culture in this context? How to determine what is a primary good? Is technology truly capable of filling the gaps created by social distancing? After this period, what will happen to the laboratory like activities? These and many other questions were addressed to Italian educators, curators, museologists, philosophers, art historians, architects and designers willing to reflect on the past, present and future of this discipline and to portray the several shapes of museum didactics in this specific time.

The book consists of three parts: the historical texts that led the research, a second part with specific questions on the different professions debating on education, museums and culture. Lastly, a chapter that collects and compares the experiences of designers focusing on workshop activities. This edition collects, in total, fifteen unpublished conversations conducted between December 2020 and February 2021. Sixteen illustrations support the essays.

The title, Domande a distanza 1971—2021 (“Remote questions 1971—2021”) summarizes the different aspects that characterized this project: the concept of museum as a interrogative space, the interviews (how the fifteen essays were collected), the physical distance that identifies this period of time and the distance in time between the historical texts and the release date.

The aim is to continue fueling the debate concerning these issues, whose strength and value seems to have been underestimated, especially during these distinctive times.

Academic project developed at ISIA Urbino, MA in Communication and Design for Publishing
Supervision: Mauro Bubbico

The Open Day at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht is a yearly event where people interested in the schools programme can get information on courses and meet students and lecturers alike. The 2020 version was held online and advertised with a campaign of posters, OOH advertisements and social media posts.

Designed by Studio Airport, it features portraits of different students showcasing them and their works. The typographic layer relies on the use of Mabry by Colophon Foundry paired with G2 Ciao by Gruppo Due.