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in this May’s GQ Germany issue you can find the latest piece I’ve made for the COUCH section about Small Talk for Winners. 

Hope you’ll enjoy watching it as much as I’ve enjoyed drawing it. Always thanks to Jana Meier-Roberts for such fun assignments.

All you see here is under ©  2017 Simone Massoni.

Had the pleasure of working with the super careful Lizzie Hart (AD) at this piece for the Wash Post last month and know more about Cameron Mackintosh, the producer behind most of the all time BroadwayBusters Plays of the last couple of decades. 

© simone massoni february 2017

Time to take back control on this channel, after almost 2 years of laziness.

Let’s start from my late work unveiled no more than a week ago. Selle Royale, a famous saddle brand used my LandXcape artwork to customize one of its product. Original concept is the landscape as a dream you’re trying to reach but you can’t do. Escaping is not for you unless you break the rules of logic.

I recently took part to an exquisite exhibition in Salsomaggiore named after the very same city thanks to Fabio Toninelli, The Man behind Tapirulan
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The show will stay on until July the 31st in Palazzo Detraz, Via Bacchelli 9. I’m in such good company with other 19 talents. In this modern map of Salsomaggiore recreated through some of the city’s most famous icons I’ve been so lucky to have been assigned to represent Miss Italia. The giant M above is my contribution.

Below is the cover made for the show by the illustrious ©Guido Scarabottolo

All the detailed infos are here on the official Facebook Page of the Show:

Plus there’s sweeeeet introduction made by FrizziFrizzi here. Bummer if you’re not an italian reader ‘cause the piece is such a nice read.

I’ve recently taken part at the London’s Fabulous Fund Fair hosted by supermodel friends Natalia Vodianova, and Karlie Kloss which had found a lot of pounds through the Naked Heart Foundation. Very happy to be part of the fund rising thing at the Fendi’s booth, where I was hired to portray fashionish people and get a little drunk eventually (not sure the drunk thing was part of the contract tho).

A huge thanks goes to the dynamic duo Rita & Valentina, aka MACHAS creative Agency who brought me into this and carefully looked after me all the evening long. Not to mention is always a great pleasure come back to London, even for few days.

in this Jan/Feb 2016 issue of the Smithsonian Mag a super fun piece I’ve been recently worked on. thanks to Heather this piece has wonderfully been brought to life in the mag, not just that, it also gave me the chance to read such an interesting article about how the phonograph revolutionized the way of experiencing the music.

I’ve also included few sketches to let the curious of you know how this piece could also have been presented in the mag.

Such an honour being called to illustrate this gorgeous book which collects essays and articles written by Dorothy Parker through a three decades span time.

Not only I was happy and proud to be considered a good fit for such a book, but also I’ve been so lucky to work along with Nora Grosse who conceive this elegant design. It may sound a little predictable to spend nice words on people you worked with, like a due thing after a work is done but this is not the case and I’m not that kind of person.

Colgando de un hilo is in bookstores these days and I’ve just put on line a much comprehensive gallery with more pictures and illustrations here on Behance for the curious ones.

very lucky to have had the chance to collaborate once again with a couple of pieces with The New Yorker.

themes have been challenging, as always, and eventually great source of fun. 

you can read the first piece by Joan Acocella on tap dance -Up From The Hold- here.

here is the second piece titled How To Live An Alternative-Comedy Life Style by Mike O’Brien, in this week issue.

the two columns I was asked to make art for are different for the themes they approach as well as for the general tone the writers use. same goes for the style and the way I draw characters, things and stuff. I don’t have two different styles but I like to use little nuances that drive the viewer into a more mature or slightly humorous mood when they look at them. or at least this would be my intention.

sketches are an extra just to show a little behind the scenes, for those -like me- curious and a bit nerdy when the subject happens to be illustration.

hope you’ll enjoy these. if you’re interested in moe sketches, work in progress and sneak peeks just press here and now! in other words follow me on instagram: @simonemassoni

I’ve been included in the last Rivista Ufficiale NBA roster (today in the newsstands) to be one of the ten illustrator depicting the most influential player of these years. I purposely chose Tim Duncan, probably one of the less loved players around and yet a great champion on the court as well as in life.

The whole piece is about deception and it comes with an intense article by Marco Imarisio.