There are a couple of things about us we think you should know and apparently the “about” section is the proper place for us to tell you.
We are a couple before we are a company and we are a team before we are a couple. Yet we spent most of the day ignoring each other and obsessing over the stuff we do.
We never fight unless we are working on a layout but when we do the final work is better than it was before.
We care about what we do: we don’t think photography and design will change the world or save lives, but we think working with passion changes the world we live in and makes our lives better.
Everything is better with a moustache
We want to work with people who take pride in a job well done and love what they do. We want to be enthusiastic and engaged and we want to feel great about the work we have done.
There are things we can do for you and things we won’t and we think the best thing to find out if we can be a good match for you is to drop us a line and tell us what you need.
"A widowed woman unable to carry on and who only lives in the odd chapters.
A fundamentally optimistic man who lives in the even chapters and is about to find out a terrible truth about his own identity.
These are the premises of Magpies, the graphic novel I’ve been working on and which will be ready, hopefully, in spring 2012.
This is a project that has been going on for years, often neglected for long periods of time, always haunting me in the back of my mind.
I used analogue and digital techiques, in form of photographs, collages, drawings and photomontages; I wanted to break free from restrictions imposed by my work: I didn’t want to spend my time caring about the rules of how a photograph should be made, I don’t like all the fuss around the “digital vs analogue” issue, I don’t care how much post production is put into a single photo. All I wanted was to grab the images I had in mind and spread them onto a piece of paper so that they would stop bugging me.
Using a medium like the graphic novel to tell a story, I was able to explore narrative possibilities which are very different from those granted by a single photograph or even a series of photos.
Combining text and images, I can look at a concept from different points of view simultaneously, creating a bond with the reader, who is to participate more actively in the unfolding of the plot, creating a short circuit between words and pictures.
There are more layers.
The title refers to a traditional nursery rhyme for children that goes:
“One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret Never to Be Told”.
The narrative is divided into seven chapters, which mimic the rhyme and try to shed light on one question: who are we, really? And how do we change when we relate to other people around us?"
[Sara Lando]
