Illustration

We Got Married

One of the happiest day of my life, and an evidence for me to create a soul-filled visual code for our 20-ish guests private ceremony.

Simona Casolari

18 Apr 2025 — 3 min read

The three (soon-to-be-four) of us © Sara Götz

While I still feel somehow unsure about sharing such a personal moment, I also feel that doing so will help memories to live, and love to spread. A strong urge to draw surfaced when wondering how to communicate the happy news to friends and family, and soon an entire visual ecosystem was born.

My friend Sara did the rest, beautifully capturing every moment.

This article is 'for members only' to avoid it being scraped to train LLM. Making it private also allows me to keep it exclusive for you, myself, and the fellow people that, like us, still believe in the magic of illustration and imagination.

Graphic composition of different bird illustrations, with rough brush strokes, several overlaps, and primary colors only. The bird flies, moves, and is upset.

Not In My Name

I won’t contribute to the richest-men-on-Earth’s wealth: wealth should be distributed. I don’t accept the Internet content being filtered by algorithms: content availability should be its owner’s choice. I refuse my data being used for ads overload: the world needs to degrow. And I deserve privacy.

An illustrated decentralised system (left) versus a spoke-hub one (right).

On a New, Open Web

The Internet as we know it today evolved from a system initially born as a government funded infrastructure, and designed around principles of decentralisation. Wait, what? Yes, you read that right: it is (and has always been) decentralised at heart.

Disk of Enheduanna priestess of Inanna at the Penn Museum

𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾

Enheduanna was the earliest known author in world history. And this has a lot to do with typography, femininity, and maternity.

Digital illustration of the comics main character, Kira. Made with the open source software Krita.

Kira and the point of no return

This story was initially written in Italian, my mother tongue, and the original version is undeniably better than the self-made English translation. This excerpt has been a draft for several, too many, years now: I started writing it while attending the CESAN comics school in Paris and initially planned on