Graphic &
Visual Designer

Branding, art direction
& fashion communication.

Selected work / 2023–2026

Selected works

Brand Identity · Art Direction · Fashion Communication

2024–2026

Independent fashion brand · Founder & Creative Director

Collection 002 — Photography: Luca Trelancia · Styling: Mirko Basile · Models: Ana Dumitrescu / Du Yating · Make-up & hair: Tania Rosa / Andrea Palazzo

CD Artwork · Concept Project

2026

Poster Design · Motion · Concept Project

2026

AI-assisted Image · Motion · Art Direction

2026

Selected experiments in image, motion and art direction.

Typography · Art Direction · Visual Experiments

2026

Independent series · Four studies in language, image and material.

Concept Project · Logo Design · Motion

2026

Motion development assisted by AI.

Brand Identity · Art Direction · Typography

2026

Self-initiated project · Festival visual identity · Print & digital design

Posters · Typography · Visual Experiments

2024–2025

An exploration of type, composition and visual language.

Brand Identity · Visual Systems · Editorial Design

2022–2023

Academic redesign · NABA Milano · Logo, brand manual, posters & stationery

Team: Francesco Marano, Laura Pizzo, Michela Salvini, Carlotta Parrinello · Lecturer: Stefano Cardini

Editorial Design · Art Direction · Typography

2023–2024

Academic project · NABA Milano · Magazine layout, identity, art direction & cover

Authors: Francesco Marano, Francesco Ferro, Alessandro Milia, Matteo Fenu, Chiara Gallo, Laura Pizzo

Jewelry Design · 3D Modeling · Rendering

2024–2025

Season 01 · Independent project · Selected jewelry pieces

Product Design · 3D Modeling · Buckle Design

2025

Vintage fur belt buckle, designed and developed in steel in collaboration with Filippo Scarpa.

01 / Services

Brand Identity

Logo Design · Visual Systems · Brand Guidelines · Applications

Art Direction

Concept · Visual Direction · Campaign / Lookbook Direction

Graphic & Digital Design

Social Design · Editorial · Digital Content · Campaign Assets

Fashion & Brand Communication

Lookbooks · Launch Assets · E-commerce Visuals · Brand Communication

02 / About

Francesco Marano

I’m a Graphic & Visual Designer based in Milan.
I work across visual identities, art direction, editorial systems, graphic and fashion communication.

My practice moves between print, digital formats, spatial applications and objects, balancing commissioned work with independent research.

Founder & Creative Director of Darxy Studios.

Darxy Studios / 2024–2026

Independent fashion brand · Milan

Founder · Creative Director
Graphic & Visual Designer

Visual identity and creative direction, from concept and communication to product development and e-commerce.

darxystudios.com ↗︎Instagram ↗︎

Darxy Studios — Selected work
SYNTHETIC / 2026

Poster design · Motion · Concept project

Poster and motion study for an electronic music festival.

01

Festival poster

Typography, digital material and motion.

Synthetic electronic music festival poster
Synthetic poster detail
02

Motion system

Animated poster and spatial application.

SYNTHETIC — Concept project
AI Visual Research / 2026

AI-assisted image · Motion · Art direction

Selected experiments
2026

An evolving collection of AI-assisted visual studies around fashion image, movement, material and graphic intervention.

AI fashion study with a stocking-clad leg emerging from a concrete wall
AI fashion campaign detail photographed against a breaking wave
AI fashion campaign image with a handbag beside a burning car
AI fashion campaign image with black boots and a motocross bike
AI Visual Research — Ongoing study
Type Conditions / 2026

Typography · Art direction · Visual experiments

Independent series
2026

Type Conditions is an independent series exploring typography as image, surface and spatial form. Four visual experiments where language shifts between reading, material and movement.

POSTER 03 Language Leaves a Trace
POSTER 01

Language Leaves
a Trace

An experimental artist-book cover where damaged text and graphic marks turn language into image.

Language Leaves a Trace poster displayed in a steel structure
POSTER 04 Out of Register
POSTER 02

Out of
Register

A fashion-editorial campaign built from misprint, movement and accidental form.

Out of Register poster in an urban display
POSTER 01 Counterform
POSTER 03

Counterform

A typographic exhibition identity where letters become shapes and reading becomes spatial.

Counterform poster in a concrete exhibition display
POSTER 02 Veil 01
POSTER 04

Veil 01

An editorial object about partial visibility, material surfaces and letters in motion.

Veil 01 as a plastic-wrapped editorial object
Type Conditions — Independent series
Egoist. / 2026

CD artwork · Concept project

A CD artwork study exploring typography and graphic marks.

01

CD artwork

Artwork, packaging and details.

Egoist CD and case artwork
Egoist CD artwork
Detail of the Egoist CD artwork
Egoist. — Concept project
VAERNOX / 2026

Visual identity · Logo design · Motion

Concept project
2026

VAERNOX is a conceptual identity exploring typography, geometry and motion through a flexible logo system and animated graphic elements for a fictional adaptive-garments brand.

Motion development assisted by AI.

01

Logo construction

Geometry, proportion and a flexible mark system.

VAERNOX logo construction grid
VAERNOX logo scale system
02

Motion system

Animated graphic sequences extending the identity in time.

03

Identity applications

Contrast, texture and material presence across digital and physical surfaces.

VAERNOX campaign image with identity overlay
VAERNOX distorted logo treatment
VAERNOX black embossed label
VAERNOX — Concept project
Selected Graphic Works

Posters · Typography · Visual Experiments

Graphic Design · Visual Research

An exploration of type, composition and visual language.

After Hours — poster typographic black and red on white
Unstable Bodies
We move through spaces
Darxy Studios — graphic composition
Afterlife — graphic composition
I need chaos around me
Where have all the flowers gone?
IA and tattoo visual experiment
Selected Graphic Works — Francesco Marano
Signal Matter / 2026

Brand identity · Art direction · Typography · Print & digital design

Festival visual identity
Self-initiated project · 2026

A visual system for an electronic music and live arts festival, translating sound into a marked typographic language, modular frames and moving graphic signals.

01

Visual system

Typography, colour, signal code and event information.

Signal Matter visual system and colour palette
Signal Matter typography and signal code studies
02

Applications

Posters, public-space media, access materials and digital content.

Signal Matter posters in an industrial setting
Signal Matter poster at a bus shelter
Signal Matter three-day pass ticket
Signal Matter poster in an industrial metro setting
Signal Matter social media and digital poster mockup
Signal Matter all-access pass and wristband
Signal Matter — Selected work
Teatro Carcano / 2022–2023

Brand identity · Visual systems · Editorial design

Academic redesign
NABA Milano

A renewed visual identity for Teatro Carcano, spanning logo, brand manual, posters and stationery.

02

Brand manual

Selected pages from the brand manual.

Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 1
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 2
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 3
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 4
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 5
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 6
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 7
Teatro Carcano brand manual — page 8

Team: Francesco Marano, Laura Pizzo, Michela Salvini, Carlotta Parrinello
Lecturer: Stefano Cardini

Teatro Carcano — Selected work
PARTI Magazine / 2023–2024

Editorial design · Art direction · Typography

Academic project
NABA Milano

An editorial project built around interviews, art, music and contemporary visual culture.

01

Selected pages

Selected pages from the magazine.

PARTI Magazine spread featuring Luca Trevisani
PARTI Magazine artwork interview spread
PARTI Magazine spread featuring Francesco Aprili
PARTI Magazine spread featuring Alfredo Pirri
PARTI Magazine Balenciaga editorial spread
PARTI Magazine music interview spread

Authors: Francesco Marano, Francesco Ferro, Alessandro Milia, Matteo Fenu, Chiara Gallo, Laura Pizzo

PARTI Magazine — Selected work
Zyma Studio / 2024–2025

Jewelry design · 3D modeling · Rendering

Season 01
Independent project co-founded with Francesco Ferro.

Selected pieces, studio images and worn jewelry from the collection.

Instagram ↗︎

01

Selected pieces

Details, studio images and worn pieces from the collection.

Zyma Studio rings worn on hand
Zyma Studio jewelry worn in editorial image
Zyma Studio jewelry detail
Zyma Studio earring detail
Zyma Studio sculptural earring
Zyma Studio jewelry editorial image
Zyma Studio jewelry design
Zyma Studio jewelry image
Zyma Studio jewelry detail
Zyma Studio product image
Zyma Studio selected piece
Zyma Studio — Selected work
Buckle 01 / 2025

Product design · 3D modeling · Buckle design

Vintage fur belt
2025

Vintage fur belt buckle, designed and developed in steel in collaboration with Filippo Scarpa.

01

Development

3D studies, components and material research.

Buckle 01 3D component study
Buckle 01 3D belt study
Buckle 01 polished steel buckle development
02

Final pieces

Steel buckle elements on vintage fur belts.

Buckle 01 belt detail
Buckle 01 final belt pieces
Buckle 01 — Selected work