Wednesday January 11th at Dal Verme in Rome will take place the presentation of "Dirty Armada", a collection of Italian Heavy Metal logos. I wrote one of the prefaces in the book and I'll be there to support the event spinning records. Expect some hard rock and old Heavy Metal as I like it. Horns up, see ya there.

"Dirty Armada is a book about a lifelong passion. It's a collection of italian metal bands logos edited by Claudio Rocchetti, a gathering started when the author was 12 years old and that it's not yet over.

It's a book full of pure beauty and metal thrill, a visual study of decades of true underground. Thanks to the essays by Marcello Crescenzi and Ezio Sabbotigh we are going to take a further ride into our memories or maybe we'll give a name to the people that helped creating a whole imaginery.

This book counts 256 pages (14cm x 19cm x 2cm) with more than 1500 bands!
Printed by Press-Press with a Risograph GR 3750
and bound by Grafiche Leone."

Howdy pals!

I'll be traveling for a while, I would not be able to use Internet often so we'll see and update properly in December.

Contact me if it's important, i'll try to answer when\if possible.

Bye everyone, ciaone.

M.

I made a shirt for the new tour of BSBE supporting their new record "Do it", check it here and go see them live!

Months ago I started working with the guys at Deepsession Records for their "Groove Discovering" concept. It's a long and ongoing series of 70's sci-fi concept artworks for their releases. it all started with a T-Shirt and it's now taking us on far galaxies we never expected. Many homages to classic Sci-Fi authors i love are obviousiy involved... Start checking the first four releases here

After years of mutual collaborations which became a friendhsip, I have been gladly asked to make the limited poster for my friends at Provider Magazine, a web magazine about style, life and arts. See it here

The new issue of Salad Days Magazine features my illustration and interview with FU Manchu's leader and founder Scott Hill. Check it here

Scandinavian bands Brutus and The Graviators released this powerful split EP on Transubstans Records, the artwork has been a realfun to draw and took a lot of iconographic\historical research, which i always love to do.

Check it here

In the ancient Nero's Thermae is located the underground auditorium of the French Institute which for his restored theatre space celebrates hosting "Trompe l'Oeil", anamorphic works by Chiara Fazi & me.

Vernissage: Saturday 24th September 2011

6.00 pm - 11.00 pm

Institut Francais of Rome, Largo Toniolo (via della Scrofa) 20\22, Rome.

It has been a pleasure to produce an illustration for the canadian band Black Mountain

You can see it here

Tour Poster for the upcoming 2011 Summer European Tour of Danava & Lecherous Gaze.

Check it here and buy it at their shows!

For the big Nike The Chosen action sports' event powered by Snob Production, me and Scarful will perform a 3 days workshop, meeting the people, customizing boards and building a skateable sculture-pipe concept-based on the Zorlac's "Metallica" board's shape.

Come meets us, help us to make it. The 14-15-16 of July, Foro Italico, Roma...  You can also win a pair of Nike iD "Cush Zoom" shoes, customed by us exclusively made for the event.

"MAKE IT"
Un altro progetto targato Snob Production che integra web e territorio, creatività e cultura.
Un progetto curato per Nike, in occasione del grande evento The Chosen che si terrà a Roma, il 14-15-16 luglio nel Nike Actionpark.

Il concept dell'evento parte dalla forma, ispirata dallo "shape" dellla tavola Zorlac che venne realizzata per la band dei Metallica decenni fa, un connubio di forma e musica molto forti e riconoscibili all'interno dello skateboarding.
Su questa forma tipicamente old-school è improntata la scultura, sono sagomate le tavole ed è basata la comunicazione stampata.

Sarà un mini-laboratorio creativo adiacente all'area dell'evento in cui due artisti, un designer\scultore e un fotografo collaboreranno per sviluppare una scultura-skateabile, personalizzando delle tavole, documentando il processo creativo passo dopo passo.
Il pubblico sarà chiamato a partecipare, a dare una mano durante la costruzione, assistendo a tutto il processo giorno per giorno in ogni sua fase.

Disegnando una grafica sul retro flyer, appositamente sagomato con la forma della tavola in questione, consegnandola nei giorni dell'evento, i due partecipanti più talentuosi vinceranno un paio di Nike iD "Zoom Cush", personalizzate da Scarful & Rise Above e realizzate da Nike appositamente per l'evento.

Saranno coinvolti nel progetto:

Alessandro “Scarful” Maida (Artista / Art Director)

Marcello “Rise Above” Crescenzi (Artista / Art Director)

Antonio Dore (Designer / Scultore)

Mirai Pulvirenti (Fotografo)

Il management ed il team creativo di Snob Production

www.chosen-roma.com
www.snobproduction.it
www.scarful.com
www.riseabove.it

l'evento su Facebook

TEL : +39 06 94 51 93 16
MAIL : info@snobproduction.it

"Per la prima edizione di “This Is My Store”, otto eventi di musica, fotografia ed arte, ideati ed organizzati da Snob Production per Carhartt in altrettanti importanti store in giro per l’Italia, Marcello Crescenzi, con il suo progetto Rise Above, ha realizzato una serie di pannelli illustrati per la comunicazione grafica del progetto.

Come di consueto nel suo lavoro, ha ricercato il “concept” nel passato, nella pietra, nella storia di ogni città: il risultato è stata la produzione di una serie di otto grandi ritratti di leoni, presi da monumenti e musei del luogo, uno per ogni città\tappa\store.

Il Leone come arcaico simbolo di fierezza, a rappresentare l’orgoglio per il proprio lavoro , concetto alla base della rassegna This Is My Store , e declinato nei volti  secolari degli elementi scultorei ritratti. Realizzati per essere esposti separatamente in ognuna delle città, vengono per la prima volta riuniti tutti assieme in una mostra realizzata nell’headquarter Snob Production\Carhartt.”

Dalle 19 in poi presso:

Carhartt Square Roma

Vicolo del Cedro 10, Trastevere

My studio is hosted inside the new Carhartt\Snob Production Headquarter which after a massive restyle is opening the 25th of May

Plus the 26th is my birthday so there's a double celebration to cheer at!

Come at Vicolo del Cedro 10, the 25th of May from 6.30 pm for a beer, a cheer and to see the new space!

"The Carhartt Square in Vicolo del Cedro 10, Rome, is a unique project that expresses the Carhartt spirit into the Snob Production Head Quarter just re-styled by Arch. Andrea Caputo. Snob Production is an Italian creative agency that plans, creates and promotes new cultural routes. After several years of effective collaborations, the bright and creative union between Carhartt and Snob Production gave birth to this uncommon concept place."

Carhartt Square Rome
Vicolo del Cedro 10
Roma

I'll be part of the first Italian Poster Art exhibition with ten works.

It will take place from the 30th of April until the 22th of May at Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce sull'Arno - Pisa.

Unluckily I can't be there but if you're around go check it, a lot of italian illustrators' work is displayed.

Seems that the guys in Graveyard are fans of my works as much as i'm of their albums.

Also for this record they called me to draw something for their merchandise whichj I gladly did so here it comes the 2011 Tour shirt!

You can buy it at their shows now.

With the Rome's lion -which depicts a 300 a.c. lion hosted at Rome's Musei Capitolini the oldest museum in the world- my first run of artworks for Carhartt is finally done. It consists of eight 28"x 40" (70x100cm) portraits of monumental lions from eight cities and for eight different Carhartt stores's events. This project took 4 months of work and has been a nice partnership with Slam Jam and Snob Production.

This will become an exhibition somewhere around June 2011 so stay tuned for more news.

Today in Rome there is the last Carhartt event, in via Mantova 3, starting at 6.00pm. I'll be there so if you're around just drop by for a beer and some talk.

After a while from being drawn, my new deck for Warriors Skateboards is finally available! Check it out here.

Is a wide 8.3" deck for concrete shredding fun.

Dazed Magazine staff interviewed me for a brief spotlight of my work featured on their new webiste "Satelite Voices".

You can read it here. Thanks to F. for being so nice to interview me.

This week i did the new logo for Public Broadcast Radio2's program "Moby Dick".

You can see it here!

I'm developing a series of panels for the This is My Store campaign for Carhartt along with Slam Jam. You can see the first four of the eight panels here!

I gladly developed the artwork and promotional images for the new record for Quintorigo on Edel Records... See it here!

Every month i will customize WOK, the monthly mail-webzine of my friends here at Snob Production. The first is this February's issue with an allegory of the sunny end of winter we are experiencing here in Rome, where the life is slowly coming back after months of cold.

Click on the image above!

... I'm also pretty moved by the  surprise "Rise Above-inspiderd" soundtrack they put on it, i've been very happy to discover it!

Rumore, one of the major musical magazines in Italy, features a column about me and my work in this month's issue. Thanks at Marco Pecorari for the kind words!

In January i moved my studio activities in Trastevere, one of the Rome's most historical areas, hosted by the friends at Snob Production agency. If you're around here, drp by and I'll be happy to have a cup of coffee together!

Me and Scarful are very happy to announce that, due to the enthusiasm and positive reception, the exhibition "Iconologia" holds over until the 31st of January.

At Profile Expo, Piazza di Spagna 51, Rome.

On: Mon-Wed-Fri-Sat from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm

Meanwhile here's a photo recap of the opening

From the 23d of December 2010 to the 10th of January 2011

At Profile Expo - Piazza di Spagna, 51 - Roma

In collaboration with Profile Expo & Grab Magazine 

Opening:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, from 10.00 am till 7.00 pm.

A small concept\exhibition about the 1600 book "Iconologia" from Cesare Ripa, developed by me and Alessandro "Scarful" Maida.

Hope to see you there.

"Me and the Devil
was walkin' side by side
Me and the Devil, ooh
was walkin' side by side
And I'm goin' to beat my woman
until I get satisfied" (R. Johnson: "Me & The Devil", 1937)

Poster artwork for the blues duo "The Black Friday" added, here

This winter comes the third collaboration between me and Lobster, this time for a warm old-school hooded sweater. Check it out here

The guys at Deep Session chose me for their 2010 shirts, go there for more