PROGETTO 366

We are delighted to present Progetto 366 by artist, comic book creator, illustrator, designer, and musician Massimo Giacon: 366 days, 366 drawings, everyday a fragment of the world.

This unique project sees Massimo engaged every day of 2024 – from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 – drawing and commenting on the first news story of the day that he finds interesting, ranging from politics, current events, entertainment, or any kind of news from the very same day.

It was 2024, as it is a leap year, and therefore composed of 366 days, that inspired the title of the project. Massimo’s goal is to create a kind of time capsule as a testimony to a year of personal and collective life.

Massimo’s 366 drawings will be collected in a book available in 366 copies, each of which will have inside an original drawing from those published. The project is in collaboration with Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea and Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio.

Technical features of the book

Dimensions 21×31 cm
376 pages in color
Spiral ring binding
Uncoated paper (minimum 140gsm, maximum 170gsm)
Hardcover

Limited edition of 366 numbered copies (+34 artist’s copies not for sale without the original included).

The book will be available from January 2025.

Visit the official Progetto 366 website to see the news of the day, updated daily.

Massimo Giacon was born in Padua, Italy in 1961. As a multifaceted artist primarily working in Milan, he divides his time between his pursuits as a cartoonist, illustrator, designer, fine artist and musician.

Since the early 80s, Giacon has been a revival comics mastermind featured in coveted Italian magazines such as Frigidaire, Alter, Dolce Vita, Cyborg e Nova Express.

In 1985 he began his collaboration with design guru Ettore Sottsass and would later go on to create and illustrate the well received book Ettore.
1990 was the start of his numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy, Switzerland, America, Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, Canada, Greece and Portugal.
After a decade of musical activities with different groups (Spirocheta Pergoli, The Grandchildren of the Pharaoh) he released his first solo album Horror Vacui  (1996) then a second The Ideal City (2003). La Città Ideale (2003).

Giacon has produced high-profile projects for Olivetti, Memphis, Artemide, Alessi, Swatch, Philips, Ritzenhoff, SuperEgo and Telecom.
IHis designs encompass ceramics, glass, tapestries, rugs, pottery and kitchen items.  He has produced projects for major international exhibitions and has worked on various television projects . He has collaborated with Alessandro Mendini, Matteo Thun and Sieger Design on various projects, and illustrated for advertising, fellow designers as well as fashion magazines (Romeo Gigli  Elle, Glamour). Giacon is well known for his ceramics project The Pop Will eat itself  for SuperEgo Collections. His artistry extends into animated videos as well as his own music videos.  Notable graphic novels that he has illustrated (beside Ettore) include Amami, Il Mondo Così Com’è, La Quarta Necessità, Ed è subito Serial (about TV serials from the past to the present) and Masticando Km di Rumore (about 100 legendary live concerts).

While busy producing design objects and illustrating for Linus Magazine he continues his in-demand musical activities and performative-artistic collaborations with various galleries.  Giacon teaches at the European Institute of Design in Milan.