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Giovanni Benetello is a graphic designer and multi-disciplinary artist based between NL and IT. His artistic practice explores material-dissective approaches to further the rhetoric of signs and traces, through the (re)creation of artifacts and visual languages.

Fields of interest: editorial design, identities, installation work, design-artistic research.

STUDIES
⁕2019-2023, Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam, NL) -
Graphic Design BA.

EXPERIENCE
⁕2022-2023, Studio Nul (Rotterdam, NL)
⁕2024-CURRENT, Metaprog (Milan, IT)

EXHIBITIONS
⁕2023, Roodkapje, Pavimento Collective (Rotterdam, NL).
⁕2023, WDKA Graduation Show (Rotterdam, NL)
🡪Drempelprijs Award 2023, Autonomous Practices.
⁕2022, Weelde Club, Collaborative Visual Installation w/ Winta Ghebre (Rotterdam, NL).
⁕2022, ACU, Collaborative VJ Set w/ Winta Ghebre (Utrecht, NL).
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"New Arborglyphs".
CNC-milled Rigid Polyurethane Foam.
Exhibited during the 'Mud and Sticky Band: An Awakening' Finissage at Roodkapje (Rotterdam, NL).
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☺2023

Pavimento & Elastiek Event Design
⁕ various sizes ⁕
Collaborative graphic design by Pavimento for Poing Arcade (Rotterdam, NL).
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☺2023

(Visual) Research-based self-publication "Mending within the Urban Context".
-11x20cm.
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☺2022

Propaganda poster by Maybite®. Laser-cut acrylic and relfective adhesive lettering.
In collaboration with Ellen Dempster
-34x61cm.
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☺2022

"In Loving Memory". Embossed fabrics and harsh structures in conversation.
Drempelprijs 2023 award-winning installation.
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☺2023

✿✿✿Maybite® Flower & Stars Logos✿✿✿
In collaboration with Ellen Dempster
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☺2022

Center label for “Containers Marked with Ink” EP by artist Leon Andres.
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☺2021

Visual identity for public exhibition "Detour" (Rotterdam, NL).
In collaboration with Roef Huybrechtse.
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☺2023

Selected spreads from research-based self-publication "A smile, the circus, waterdrops: an analysis of traces in the urban space".
-16,7x22cm..
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☺2023

Monthly Mixtape, by Maybite®. Alternative version with laser-engraved casing.
In collaboration with Ellen Dempster
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☺2023

Album cover imagery and center label for “From the Angels” by artist Leon Andres.
Photography by David Kulev.
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☺2023