The posters “Zio Enrico” by Irene Bacchi, Leonardo Sonnoli and “Diritti e Doveri” by Leonardo Sonnoli, photo by Albert Watson, are selected to be displayed in the exhibition “Vis-à-vis” that took place on the ground floor of the “Les Silos” in Chaumont from March 29 until May 11 in occasion of the “24th International Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont”. It deals with faces and portraits in contemporary posters.
The exhibition, curated by Étienne Hervy and Éric Aubert, presents fiftyfive posters produced in the last twenty years for the international scene.

One of the eight chapters of the book for the 25th anniversary of Tonelli Design:
Compositions I - XIV
by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta)
Among the many objects of any living space there is most likely to be a bottle of glass cleaner, which proves the widespread use of this siliceous material.
Different bottles of various brands have their own original shape, despite coming all from a similar prototype. These slight variations are clearly captured in these compositions that deliberately refer to the works of Giorgio Morandi and to their intelligent photographic interpretation by Luigi Ghirri. And, as the lesson of the two maestros has taught us, the aim is to search for the beauty hidden in banality.

One of the eight chapters of the book for the 25th anniversary of Tonelli Design:
Chance Methodology
by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta)
The random, beautiful, and unique shapes created by breaking a glass slab are the starting point for the serial production of glass cut using CNC machines. A process that, whilst imitating fortuity– and probably being defeated by it– reflects on the idea of design as the relationship between manual skills and serial production, as well as on the beauty of the impossibility of perfection.

At the Salone del Mobile 2013 in Milan it has been presented a project in eight chapters on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Tonelli design, one of the best italian glass furniture company.
It’s a project curated by Leonardo Sonnoli and Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta), with the texts by Martina Gamboni and the photographs by Massimo Gardone, Bianca Fabbri and Daniele Lisi.

On the 23rd of March 2013 Leonardo Sonnoli has been invited to talk at “Fruit” in Bologna, an art micro-publishers, self-publishers, printers, graphic designers, illustrators and artists exhibition.
His talk was about the wrong idea to consider “indipendent” the little publishers. He invited in his talk two young researcher, Irene Bacchi and Niccolò Mazzoni, to demonstrate that the history teach us to develop our future. The two designers –contemporary Montag and Clarisse (see “Fahrenheit 451)”– talked about two italian publishing houses of the past, Il Saggiatore and La Nuova Foglio.
Sonnoli discussed on independency and experimental publishing through few examples by Sister Corita, the Provo group, Pieter Brattinga and more.

The collective book designed by the 18 students with Leonardo Sonnoli at the Graduate Thesis/Open Research course, RISD –Rhode Island School of Design– http://www.risd.edu/Graphic_Design/

Edited and designed by:
Andy Chen
Justin Chen
Yejin Cho
Catherine Cieslewicz
Minsun Eo
Colin Frazer
Christopher Hamamoto
Anther Kiley
Min Ji Lee
Elisa Maezono
Waël Morcos
Eugene Park
Jiwon Park
Federico Perez Villoro
Ali Qadeer
Amanda Sim
Franziska Stetter
Jonathan Yamakami

From the 9th to the 20th of January 2013, at the RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, took place the Graduate Thesis/Open Research course.
18 students, guided by Leonardo Sonnoli, developed a project on the main references of their thesis: the notes for the end of the graduate group experience.
Through elevators interviews, private collections of printed envelops, music compilations, Situationist examples, limited editions on demand, silkscreen experiments, and more, it has been designed a collective books, a poster collection and a website.
More later…

The design for the Palazzo Grassi -François Pinault Foundation- greetings card, by Leonardo Sonnoli.
When winter holydays come, also the letters are decorated.

The Nuova Consonanza association organized a series of events at the American Academy in the beautiful Villa Aurelia of Rome, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of John Cage.
From the 18th of November to the 14th of Dicember 2012 within the “Festa d’autunno 2012 – CentoCage” event,  
Irene Bacchi, Nicholas Blechman and Leonardo Sonnoli contributed with the installation “Heidelberg Speedmaster”, a series of three posters and a video that filmed the process of posters print in three times, based on the 4′33″ of John Cage. The posters were available to pick up to leave the floor “silent”.

more info www.nuovaconsonanza.it

Since 9th of November the new website of Internoitaliano is on line (www.internoitaliano.com). It is a new system for the production and sale of designer furnishings, created by Giulio Iacchetti, that brings Contemporary Italian Design with the quality of traditional Italian craftsmanship to the worldwide marketplace with products sold exclusively online.
Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi (Tassinari/Vetta) designed the identity of Internoitaliano, the website, and the catalogue.
The catalogue/folders holds the contribution of Beppe Finessi and Stefano Micelli that wrote two “Manifestos” for Internoitaliano, Guido Guidi who gave a photographic sequence of an italian domestic space and Max Rommell provided the craftsmen’s photos.