Ariel Brandolini
Born in 1979 in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and raised in Alejandro Korn, after graduating in graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, he held a position as assistant professor for Argentina's leading graphic designer, architect Guillermo González Ruiz. In 2002 he began working at Design Associati communication studio in Treviso, Italy, first as a collaborator and then as a partner.
Ariel Brandolini has held several collaborations with Italian institutions and museums, including the Salce Collection National Museum and the Luigi Bailo Museum in Treviso, the Historical Museum & Park of Miramare Castle in Trieste, the Tipoteca Museum of type and printing in Cornuda, the Paff! International Museum of Comic Art in Pordenone.
Parallel to his activity as graphic designer, he has collaborated and published various graphics magazines and books. Since 2021, he has been writing on the topic of alternative lettering in the journal "Contesto” by Frisco Editions.
Over the past few years, his ongoing research in typographic design has led him to held teaching positions at the IUSVE University in Venice and Verona, to collaborate with Tipografia Unione in Vicenza and to develop a series of fonts for R41 Foundry, inspired by the catalogs of Fonderia Nebiolo in Turin, at the time when Aldo Novarese was director of the art studio.
His main influences are futurism, experimental and Italian cinema, and industrial music.
