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Modern, minimal and mostly monochrome work from Italian designer Andrea Guccini

Andrea Guccini is based between Milan, London and Bologna, and makes work that riffs off modernist minimal traditions but in a way that's wryly playful. Working mainly across printed posters and books, Guccini creates work that looks stately and pared back yet injects humour to it all: he describes his superb Dutch Design summer school Open Set posters as "about: my failure in Rotterdam."

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Monochrome poster featuring brutalist architecture with text reading "I have to improve my English during my stay in Rotterdam" and dates 29.7.2015 to 9.8.2015

Other portfolio highlights include his Postr Club work created with Spin, which was on show as part of the group exhibition at Twenty Twenty Two in Manchester around this time last year and a brilliant little film publication which demonstrates a deft way with layout and using found imagery.

Architectural model and printed materials featuring geometric patterns and text about a Dutch Design summer school project by Andrea Guccini
Black and white poster for Dutch Graphic Design summer school Open Set featuring modernist architecture photographs and text about improving English during a stay in Rotterdam, dated 29.7.2015 to 9.8.2015
Four Renaissance paintings labelled to show intimate space (0-0.45m), personal space (0.45-1.2m), social space (1.2-3.5m) and public space (>3.5m)
Black and white photograph on a printed page showing a man in a vest standing next to a figure draped in white fabric in an open field
Open spread from Andrea Guccini's publication showing a table of contents on the left page and a black and white photographic image on the right page
Page from Andrea Guccini's film publication featuring monochrome stills and text layouts for classic cinema films including Il grande dittatore, La grande guerra and Il Dottor Stranamore
Two pages from a book featuring black and white photographs arranged with minimal text, including images of people in interior settings and a formal group scene
Two open pages from a publication showing a grid layout of black and white film stills and one coloured vintage film poster arranged on white backgrounds
Open spread of a minimalist publication with credits and information on the left page and solid black on the right page
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