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Peace to the world

This year, I would like to share a message of peace for Christmas with Agency Rush. 

This illustration is a quiet reminder of what our world would be like if we shared a common desire for peace.  

🌟 "Every act of kindness is a small step towards changing the world." 🌟

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Polka Dot House - Life Magazine - April 14, 1952

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I'm in love with December and with Copenhagen too, do you? 💖☃️

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Maps are one of my favorite things to use, collect, and design!

I'm so happy that two of my projects have been included in Get Lost, a new book from Victionary Books – an anthology of the best contemporary illustrated maps 🧭😍

#hikimi #illustration #map illustration #illustrated maps #travel and illustration #drawing #victionarybooks #get lost

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Dreaming, drawing, and growing up through playful poetry! 🌈

Just shared my latest illustration for "Disegnare di-sognare" at Corals Art Gallery in Milan, curated by the wonderful HubArt.

Calling all creative souls – Let's connect through the magic of dreams! ✨

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Play Meets Ink in Roy Scholten’s Ongoing LEGO Letterpress Bird Series

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Artwork Copyright © Tyler Spangler

Buy Prints: shoptylerspangler.com

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A mood 🐈‍⬛

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Mixed feelings

Recently, I have mixed feelings about any topic. ⛅️ As soon as I think I have a clear idea, a new detail emerges and brings up further doubts. Yet everyone online seems to be so confident about everything. Do you feel the same? 

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Checkmate 🌈

Play and protest, two worlds that usually do not meet, but can be brought together through art. This is the idea behind the ScaQueer art installation, a project by the ArtistsForPride association, which brought these oversized chess pieces, decorated by many artists, to Milan last June.

In my pieces I tried to ironically represent my way of being queer, focusing on pride but also love and lightness.

Here is a little bit of the creation process...

From initial sketches and color tests:

To the finals, painted with acrylics:

If you want to see more, I also made a reel about this project.

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Let it bloom – avere quarant'anni

Lo scorso anno ho compiuto quarant’anni.

Ci ho messo un anno per capire cosa abbia significato per me. Pensandoci, è stato come fiorire, in un modo spontaneo e irrefrenabile.

Superate le aspettative (ovviamente "disattese") dei trenta ho capito che in realtà potevo liberarmi da un sacco di costrizioni, generalmente auto-imposte, e lasciare andare. Lasciare sbocciare idee, sensazioni, colori e parti di me che non avevo mai nemmeno immaginato – eppure erano lì, ad aspettarmi.

Ho analizzato i miei meccanismi mentali, capito i pensieri irrazionali e le trappole in cui a volte cado, e finalmente ho un rapporto sano con il mio corpo, che vedo per quello che è: un corpo forte e flessibile, anche attraente, in equilibrio con la testa a cui è attaccato, che mi sostiene e in cui mi piace stare. Vorrei avere avuto questa consapevolezza prima 🌼✨

Questa carta, illustrata con ritagli di fogli colorati, fa parte di Scala Quaranta – un progetto per raccontare come cambia la vita delle persone tra i 40 e i 49 ani di età – quando si hanno altri tempi, altre possibilità e punti di vista.

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Welcome autumn 💛

#hikimi #illustration #drawing #sketchbook #flowers #yellow #graphic illustration #doodling

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Nice light today in the studio

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I've made a new children's book 🎈

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Jungle vibes in the studio 💚

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Beautifully diverse

I'm proud to be an ambassador for this edition of Poster Heroes, which focuses on disability and inclusion. 

For my poster, I focused on all those situations where disability can be invisible.  I wanted to show, abstractly and imaginatively, what the inner world of each of us can be - with its positive or negative thoughts and brilliant stories ready to blossom or disappear. These inner worlds deserve to be shown to enrich the people around us. 

We are all so beautifully different!

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New editorial illustration for Futura Corriere on a witty and ironic article by Emanuele Altissimo about Tourette's syndrome and shame (usually that of people observing it from the outside).

For Italian readers: Futura

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