Massimo Giacon

Born in Padua in 1961. Since 1980 he has shuttled back and forth between Milan and Padua working at his various jobs as comic strip artist, illustrator, designer, artist, and musician. Since the early eighties he has been one of the major comic strip artists involved in the phenomenon of the Italian comic strip revival originating from magazines such as Frigidaire, Alter, Dolce Vita, Cyborg, and Nova Express. In 1985 he began to work with Sottsass Associati. He continued with his design work, collaborating with Matteo Thun, Atelier Mendini, Sieger Design and producing projects for Memphis, Alessi, Philips, Zero Disegno, Swatch, and Artemide. In 1990 he began a career in art that led him to hold numerous exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Greece, Portugal, and Japan.
Since 1994 he has handled the graphics for telematics networks, CD-ROMs, and web-sites.
After a decade of playing music with various bands, his first solo album Horror Vacui was released in 1996.
He has designed hangings, carpets, ceramics, kitchen objects, produced advertising illustrations and worked with fashion designers and magazines (Romeo Gigli, Vanity, Elle). He has also fitted out international trade fairs. He is now working on a line of toys for Brinkhaus, a virtual character for RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, and an exhibition of works with pornographic subjects.