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Simone Magurno

by Francesca on 10/03/09 at 4:11 am

About the artist

• Online Portfolio
• Behance

Simone magurno is an Italian graphic designer born in 1984 in Genova.
Self thaught in graphic design he has been working as a freelance for various international clients.
After his formal university education in Communication and Media, he decided to specialize towards interactive media by applying for the Digital Media programme at Hyper Island in Karlskrona, Sweden.

His digital illustrations have been featured worldwide in publications such as IdN, Computer Arts, Deleted Scenes, Semipermenent Book 2008, Cap&Design and in the most renowed portals across the web (Newstoday, Nice To Meet You, Digital Abstracts, Netdiver, NewWebPick, Reform & Revolution). He has also been awarded with a mention of honor in the first Netdiver digital competition in 2006.

He’s currently working and living in San Francisco, USA.

Discovering a talent

I started like many finding myself sitting in front of a computer long hours. Then i realized that computers were extremely powerful tools through which create graphics. I started to become serious about graphic design and consider it as a profession only recently though. The last 3 years have been decisive for me.

Favourite softwares

I don’t have an absolute favourite. I think designers should be flexible about the software they’re using and simply choose the right application to do the job. Most people don’t know that you can achieve the same results with both Illustrator and Photoshop. But an .AI file is almost always scalable. And if you’re working for print or across different media (lets say that you’re designing an interface which will later be part of a motion study) scalability is extremely important. Lately i’ve been switching from AI to PS quite often, depending on what kind of project i’m working on.

The works