COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/01 La tavola
A worktable where tools, ideas and materials meet at the beginning of making.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25FM—005 / SELECTED WORKCOLLAPSE / EXHIBITION + PRIVATE PARTY / 30.08.2025
REBUILDYOURSELF.
Art is never neutral. Every collapse is an opening. Every fracture is a passage.
PROJECTA multidisciplinary exhibition, private party and visual system built around reuse, rupture and transformation.
ROLEArt Direction
Graphic Design / Editorial
Graphic Design / Editorial
01 / MANIFESTOCOLLAPSE IS A PROCESS
DON’T REBUILD.
REINVENT.
Our task is not to rebuild, but to reinvent: in new, unpredictable and necessary forms. Collapse is a process, an energy in continuous transformation that tears down and reassembles, recovers and recreates.
Creativity cannot be divided into fixed categories, styles or schools: it is made of visions and transformations. Every encounter, dialogue and insight becomes part of a living, moving mosaic.
02 / VISUAL SYSTEMAN IDENTITY
AN IDENTITY
IN THE MAKING.
Rebuild Yourself brings contemporary art, fashion and music together as a cultural project in the heart of Città di Castello. Tools of making become a graphic language of handmade marks, disruption and overlap.
Original drawings — chains, nails, buttons, stitches and working tools — move freely across printed matter and page layouts. A distinctive, but never rigid, visual grammar.
03 / THE A3 FOLDOUTONE A3.
ONE A3.
MANY READINGS.
The A3 folded sheet was designed as a layered editorial object: each fold reveals different information. Only when the sheet is fully unfolded do its parts come together as the event's complete poster.
The A3 was not a traditional flyer: its folded surfaces revealed information progressively, while the fully opened front became a single poster. Shown here are the original print artwork, reverse and folding study.
A3 / FULLY UNFOLDEDORIGINAL EVENT POSTER / 30.08.2025
Not a new digital redesign: this is the original printed A3 poster artwork for the exhibition.A3 / ORIGINAL FRONT / 30.08.2025
FOUR ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FOLDED A3
THE FOLD / EDITORIAL OBJECTFOLD.
FOLD.
REVEAL.
REASSEMBLE.
The A3 was not a traditional flyer: its folded surfaces revealed information progressively, while the fully opened front became a single poster. Shown here are the original print artwork, reverse and folding study.
FOLDEDA5
UNFOLDA4
POSTERA3
04 / HAND-DRAWN LANGUAGETOOLS / MATERIALS / TRANSFORMATION
MARKS OF MAKING.
MARKS OF CHANGE.
Hand-drawn symbols became the visual foundation of the exhibition's communications. Tools of making, sewing, reuse and transformation formed a graphic language carried across the poster, folded leaflet, printed displays, invitations and digital campaign.
05 / EXHIBITION TEXTSEXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
AS ARCHIVE.
Eight exhibition captions, mounted on OSB boards, told the project's creative stages through titles and texts. Restrained typography set against raw material was part of the exhibition's identity.
The grid below is a digital presentation of the cards; original photographs of the physical boards follow.
COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/02 Cut
A precise act of cutting, giving materials new form.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/03 Garbage or not
Discarded matter becomes a starting point for meaning.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/04 Cemento liquido
Matter changes state and is reassembled.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/05 Another Brick
A new identity emerges by breaking with convention.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/06 Soon Butterfly
Transformation makes room for a new life.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/07 Set Ready
The project becomes a scene, image and shared identity.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.25COLLAPSE®Italy, 2023–2025
/08 L’inizio
Transformation comes full circle: ideas become expression.
Rebuild Yourself // Collapse Exhibition // 30.08.2506 / ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATIONFROM IDENTITY
FROM IDENTITY
TO SPACE.
The identity shaped the physical experience, from wayfinding and exhibition structures to displayed work and print. The same visual language moved into the Loggiato itself.
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION / EXHIBITION SPACE
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION / EXHIBITION SPACE30.08.2025
ORIGINAL INSTALLATION & EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS / 30.08.2025
07 / APPLICATIONSIDENTITY
IDENTITY
IN USE.
CANVAS / MERCHANDISE / 2025FROM
FROM
PRINT TO
OBJECT.
The exhibition's identity also appeared on the original tote bag, carrying the editorial visual system off the page and into the event.
Original tote bag / physical application08 / EXHIBITION SIGNAGEIDENTITY
IDENTITY
IN THE SPACE.
The two original roll-up banners expressed contrasting voices of the same system: one typographic and minimal, the other built around the exhibition's hand-drawn illustrations.
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09 / THE EVENT30.08.2025 — CITTÀ DI CASTELLO
ONE SPACE,
MANY LANGUAGES.
The Loggiato di Palazzo Bufalini becomes an open laboratory: art, fashion and music coexist through installations, encounters and nightlife.
PALAZZO
BUFALINI.
LOGGIATO DI PALAZZO BUFALINI
VIA SANT’ANTONIO 1
CITTÀ DI CASTELLO
17:00
21:00
Temporary exhibition
Lounge bar
Welcome aperitivo
22:30
→ LATE
From 22:30, invitation-only entry and limited capacity. The original communication also stated “Night starts at 22:00.”
10 / PRIVATE PARTY / 30.08.2025COMMUNICATION / INVITATIONS / NIGHTLIFE
FROM EXHIBITION
TO THE NIGHT.
Rebuild Yourself's campaign connected two moments: the exhibition from 17:00 to 21:00 and the evening private party. Posters, posts, stories and invitations spoke the same visual language.
At night the Loggiato became a meeting place for music, people and installations. These are original photographs documenting the event.
Wristband and ticket / admission system
Two applications of the COLLAPSE EXHIBITION + PRIVATE PARTY identity: the paper wristband and the digital QR admission ticket. Both use the original artwork.
11 / CLOSING STATEMENTREBUILD YOURSELF / COLLAPSE
WE ARE NOT HERE
TO REASSURE.
We are here to question. To open new paths. To provoke thought. To build together what does not yet exist.
PROJECT CREDITS
- Art direction, graphic and editorial design
- Filippo Mantini
- Project
- COLLAPSE / Rebuild Yourself