Giacomo Guccinelli (he/him, they/them)
Illustrator, concept artist and human rights trainer, he combines visual development for publishing and entertainment with topics related to intersectional transfeminism and decolonial and anti-speciesist queer activism. Since 2007 he has been working as a concept artist, illustrator and graphic designer for publishing, public and private organisations and companies in the fields of research and scientific dissemination. Trainer since 2008 in the human rights field, he follows the development of national and local projects on education to differences and reduction of exclusion phenomena. In 2012 he founded Steam Factory Creative Team, a group of artists engaged in training and production of video games and animated products, whom he works as art director with, concept artist and character designer. Since 2014 he has been a lecturer at The Sign Comics & Arts Academy and since 2017 he has been in charge of teaching and designing the academy’s training courses with a specific focus on illustration and concept art. He is currently in charge of art direction and visual production for the development of published and developing dissemination and entertainment products.
Graduated in in modern literature at the University of Pisa, in the last fifteen years he has worked in the video game field with Xplored for Bandai Namco, ETT Solution, IV Production, Greenman Gaming, Amnesty International Sezione Italiana (with whom he has been working as a human rights trainer since 2007). In the publishing area he is author for Salani (L’inferno di Dante, I Miti Greci e Noi), Mondadori for Isabella Premutico’s Atlante dell’Italia esoterica and with Telos edizioni for children folklore books and products related to multimedia publishing for children. With Lo Scarabeo he is the author of the recently published Jungian Archetypes Oracle. In recent years he has collaborated with Macondo, Flewid Magazine, Ehm Autoproduzioni, AUT Magazine, Eris Edizioni and Open Arms Italia for the Open Art contest and publication that combines artivism and storytelling on migration. Speaker on concept art and illustration at the Future Film Festival, in 2021 for Festival della Mente and, in 2020-22, for Internet Festival. Curator within the Florence Queer Festival of the Queer Animation selection with particular attention to the themes of intersectional transfeminism and micro-labels. He collaborates on the editorial work of SMACK!, published by Eris Edizioni with Collettivo Moleste.
IG https://www.instagram.com/lateogoniaillustrata
Website https://www.giacomoguccinelli.it