Cover design for GenerAzioni, a Storytel original by Luca de Santis
Luca de Santis is a screenwriter, writer and scholar. He wrote many graphic novels - Leda, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ariston, In Italia sono tutti maschi - honored with a numer of awards. His writing has a personal tone thank mixes different codes, pop culture and academic references, rigorous research, his own experience in activism and a solid sense of humour. When Storytel asked me to draw the cover art for his upcoming podcast, I was quick to say yes.
First draft of the design for cover
The six episod podcast is called GenerAzioni (we can roughly translate it as "GenerActions") to reflect what it means to grow up as a queer persons in different generation and decades, what's changed, how to relate to the history of the queer community and more to the point, the history of the Italian LGBTQ+ community. We started with the concept of the suitcase, as a metaphor for the journey, both in time and space,than we opted for something a little bit like Doctor Who's Tardi: bigger on the inside.
30 second video of the making of
Every episode is called with one of the letters that create the Lgbtq+ acronym, and it's a mix of autobiography, interviews with activist from the queer community from different generations and different experiences.
GenerAzioni was published in June, in time for the beginning of Pride Month.
For the launch of the podcast Storytel hosted an event in Porta Venezia, a queer-friendly neighbourhood in Milan and informal center of the queer community of the city.
