SILVIA PORTFOLIO RIGHETTI
Hi, I’m Silvia Righetti. I was born and grew up in a town on the Adriatic sea, in Italy. I moved to Bologna to pursue my dream to become an illustrator and comic artist. There, I got both bachelor’s in “Comic and Illustration” and a master’s in “Comic’s Language”. In the meantime, I founded an independent comic label called Brace and discovered a passion for visual design. Between my degrees, I took the chance to make some traineeships abroad, first in Hamburg and then in Berlin. For five years, I’ve worked as a freelance illustrator and visual designer. What I love the most is telling stories behind the drawings I make. I always find a creative solution to communicate in the best way a concept and this is one of the things that I love most about my profession. I love to work with new people and I’m eager to explore every creative field, from digital to analog. I like traveling, reading novels and comics, watching tv-series, eating gelato and stalking dogs.
BIO:
REACH ME:
Name: Silvia Righetti
Date and place of bith: 20th of June 1994 Rimini, Italy
+39 3397619713
silviarighetti94@gmail.com silvia_righetti www.behance.net/silviarighetti www.linkedin.com/in/silviarighetti94
ABOUT ME EXPERIENCES:
SKILLS:
Freelance Illustrator and Visual Designer 2014 - Present
Creativity • Communication • Time management • Editorial design • Digital and analog Illustration • Visual Identity • Printing • Advertising
Intern at Jaja Verlag April 2021 - July 2021 Berlin Content creator for social media, customer service, event management, logistic. Editor and comic artist at BRACE Magazine 2015 - 2019 Bologna Illustrator, editor, visual, social media manager, event manager. Intern at HAW Hamburg April 2017 - July 2017 Hamburg Teaching assistant and research to didactic activities
EDUCATION: Master of Language of Comics Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna 2017 - 2020
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Indesign Adobe After Effects Procreate FontLab Studio
PRIZES and EXHIBITIONS: 2014: • Special mention in Flashfumetto’s contest “Noi e gli altri” 2015: • Founded Brace. • First prize at International contest of Treviso Comic Book festival, IT
Bachelor of Comic and Illustration Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna 2013 - 2017
2016: • Nomads, collective exhibition, Alliance Francaise, IT. • Prize in the contest “La biblioteca come conversazione” at Children’s Book Fair of Bologna.
LENGUAGES:
2017 • Exibition of illustration in HAW Hamburg, DE
Italian - Mothertongue
2019 • Guest at “Piccolo Festival” in Cremona. • Nominee for “Lorenzo Bartoli” Prize at Arf Festival in Rome.
English - C1 German - A1
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ILLUSTRATION Cover of “Il Solitario di Rodriguez”, Risma edizioni
BRANDING Buccia
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ILLUSTRATION Dossier #19 of Brigitte Magazin
COMICBOOK Cage
ANIMATION GIFs and Stickers
COMICBOOK La Rottura
PERSONAL WORK Friends portraits
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COMIC Ruslan Bogaslovs criminal Record, B Music exhibition
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PERSONAL WORK Various illustratio
sky’s Bone
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ILLUSTRATION AND VISUAL IDENTITY “L’Affaire Tintin” podcast
PRINT Dancing Chickens
EDITOR IN CHIEF, LAYOUT AND COMIC Brace magazine
ANIMATION La Cacciata trailer
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DOSSIER #19 LOSLASSEN
Brigitte Magazin, the lead women magazine’s in Germany, contacted me to create five illustrations and the cover for the #19 Dossier for the September issue. The topic, “Loslassen” (Letting go), is investigated through five articles that touch many aspects of the everyday life of each of us. My challenge was to translate the subject into illustration effectively, adding a visual atmosphere. I chose bright colors to express the powerfulness of the messages and catch the eye of the reader.
ILLUSTRATION
Client: Gruner + Jahr Art Director: Holger Geys Tools: Pencil Software: Photoshop, Procreate Published in September 2021, Germany
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IL SOLITARIO DI RODRUGUEZ
ILLUSTRATION Risma is a publishing house specialized in young readers’ literature. They approached me to create a cover for their new release, “Il Solitario di Rodriguez”. I drew the cover for the main publication and a special edition for the customers that purchased the book from Risma’s website. The two illustrations were used to create merchandise for the book release.
Editor: Risma Format: 14,8 x 21 cm Software: Photoshop, Corel Painter Published in Italy
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BUCCIA BY BEATRICE
Buccia is a small independent brand of handmade products and tapestry, founded by the crochet artist Beatrice Petrecca. She approached me to create a brand identity for her products and Instagram account. The logo I drew for her recalls her first launch (Giuditta collection), a funny and playful character that symbolizes Beatrice’s approach to her work. I created the logo font following the same concept. Then, we proceeded to print customized labels and fabric to add to her products. Deliverables included the social media assets. You can find Buccia here .
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BRANDING
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Client: Buccia Software: Illustrator
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L’AFFAIRE TINTIN PODCAST
In March 2021, Alessio Trabacchini, editor and comic-historian, and Fulvio Risuleo, movie director and screenwriter, released their six-episode podcast “L’affaire Tintin”. Each episode navigates the world of one of the most famous comic authors, Herge, and his character, Tintin. The host and sponsor of the project, Stendhal bookshop of Rome, asked me to create a podcast cover and contents for the promotion on social. I decided to draw Alessio and Fulvio in Herge’s style and recreate the title font from the original comics. In the end, I drew some additional illustrations for promotion and decided on the palette (blue and yellow) to use on social media to make the contents visually coherent. You can listen to “L’Affaire Tintin” here .
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ILLUSTRATION VISUAL IDENTITY
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BRACE MAGAZINE
BRACE is an Italian comic magazine founded in 2015 by Silvia Righetti, Kalina Muhova, Francesco Saresin, Ettore Mazza and Nicola Pezzato, as a shared space for experimentation with comics and storytelling. The main focus is on the short story, with some openings in illustration. The activity of BRACE includes participation in various fairs and festivals, as well as organizing various workshops and exhibitions. In 2017 the magazine was awarded the “Carlo Boscarato” prize at Treviso Comic Bookfair and in 2018 with the “Best Zine” prize at Lucca Comics and Games.
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EDITOR IN CHIEF LAYOUT AND COMIC
80 pages, black and white and colours Format: 20 x 28 cm Authors: Ettore Mazza, Francesco Saresin, Kalina Muhova (cover), Eliana Albertini, Miguel Vila, Ritardo, Silvia Righetti Italian text with English translation Published in 2018, Italy
128 pages, black and white, Format: 17 x 24cm Authors: Ettore Mazza (cover), Federica Bellomi, Francesco Saresin, Kalina Muhova, Nicola Pezzato, Roberta Scomparsa, Silvia Righetti Italian text with English translation Published: 2017, Italy
72 pages, black and white Format: 16,5 x 23 cm
Authors: Ettore Mazza, Francesco Saresin (cover), Kalina Muhova, Nicola Pezzato, Silvia Righetti Italian text with English translation Published in 2016, Italy
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CAGE
COMICBOOK Cage is a comic book about overcoming the boundaries that prevent people from changing a life they don’t fit into anymore. It started as a personal project that I wrote and drew. After I had the finished comic pages, I curated the layout of the book and hand-lettered the texts to fit the drawing style.
152 pages, colors Format: 14,8 x 21 cm Tools: Procreate, Indesign Text: English
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LA ROTTURA
COMICBOOK La Rottura is a short cominbook written by Valeria Benincasa and drawn by me. The story is about overcoming the pain of getting out of a toxic relationship and a rough breakup. Starting from the story Valeria wrote, I took care of the character design and translated the novel into comic form. The book was self-produced and printed in 600 pieces, now sold-out. My tasks were also designing the book, customer care, and delivery.
42 pages, colors Format: 17 x 24 cm Written by Valeria Benincasa Illustrated by Silvia Righetti Book design: Silvia Righetti Text: Italian Published in Italy
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BONE MUSIC EXHIBITION
Buero-Doering, Berlin-based communication, and event-planning agency, asked me to create a comic page for the catalog of the Bone Music exhibition at Villa Heike. The story narrates the last moments of the music bootlegger Ruslan Bogoslowski before he was arrested by KGB. Bone Music exhibition opened on 13th of August and finished on 5th of September 2021.
COMIC
Client: Buero-Doering Tools: Black Crayon Software: Photoshop Published in August 2021 Berlin
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DANCING CHICKENS
In June 2021, I decided to learn more printing techniques, so I asked the Berlin-based risograph studio, Melomelo print, to help me achieve this goal. I created a two-color print inspired by a scene from Werner Herzog’s movie Stroszek. I printed a limited edition of 50 pieces, which now are sold out.
format: 29,7 x 42 cm two colors risograph print in fluorescent pink and medium blue limited edition of 50 pieces
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LA CACCIATA TRAILER
La Cacciata was an assignment to create a fake trailer of a story I wrote. It narrates a relationship between mother and daughter while in the background aliens landed on Earth. I started from a storyboard and animated the pictures mixing the technique of rotoscope and After Effects. Then I edited the video, polishing it and adding sounds.
CLICK ON THE BOX TO WATCH THE VIDEO. Software: Photoshop, Premier, After Effects Written, directed and animated by: Silvia Righetti Editing and sound by: Silvia Righetti
ANIMATION
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GIFs AND STICKERS
I have always been interested in the creation of small GIFs for fun and for my friends. I feel that a moving an illustration makes it more entertaining in a context like Instagram. I make them in my free time or on request. I like to experiment with various software to achieve the best outcome. Some of them have been featured in newspaper and publishing house’s Instagram stories as Il Sole 24 Ore and E/O.
ANIMATION
Software: Procreate, Photoshop, RoughAnimator
CHECK HERE MY GIPHY PROFILE!
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FRIENDS RITRATTINI
I love to challenge myself by making quick portraits of my friends when they’re not looking. Some years have passed since this series, but I still enjoy the freshness and playfulness of those 2 minutes drawings.
Software: Procreate
PERSONAL WORK
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VARIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS
Since I was little, illustration has always been a way to express my feelings and vision of the world. This brief selection shows some illustrations I have done in the past years in my free time. I love experimenting with new techniques and software, jumping from digital to analogic, or mixing them both.
PERSONAL WORK
Sofware: Photoshop, Corel Painter, Procreate. Tools: Pencil, loose graphite
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