This document provides biographical information about Tommaso Cremonesi and examples of his graphic design work. It discusses his education and background in graphic art and music. Examples shown include album covers and posters he has designed for bands, using psychedelic and surreal styles featuring textures, patterns and digital manipulation of images. It also describes an app he designed called Booklet to display digital album artworks while listening to music.

2. On the cover: “Stripes”, 2014
Personal work, mixed media.

3. I . Who I am.......................................
II. App design project: BOOKLET.......................................
III. Album cover project: ARTWORKS.......................................
IV. Graphic Art as: TRUTH.......................................
V. Works as: FREELANCER.......................................

5. My name is Tommaso Cremonesi. My ho-
metown, Cremona, is in the north of Italy, an
hour’s drive from Milan. I was born on Va-
lentine’s day in 1991 and I’ve always been
a creative person. I spent almost all of my
childhood drawing. During my teens I started
to play and study the guitar and I then started
to write songs of my own. After attending an
art high school in my hometown, in 2010 I
applied for a Graphic design & Multimedia
course at thw LABA University in Brescia,
Italy. After 3 years and half and a thesis on
the cover art of music albums I graduated in
February 2014 (with a grade of 103/110).
Since that moment I started to develop and
improve my personal style, which features
psychedelic elements, textures and repe-
ated patterns. These are used to recreate
evocative landscapes, surreal scenes and
weird portraits. Even if I can say that I’m mo-
stly in love with graphic art, as you can see
in this portfolio, I also developed good web
and app design skills. I can also create origi-
nal magazines / printed publication layouts.

6. Music is now as dematerialized as it can be
thanks to the ever rising market of streaming
services and online stores. This means that
nowadays album artworks are more
often than not relegated to a thumbnail on a
computer or a mobile screen.
Booklet, an app I designed as part of my
undergraduate thesis, aims to give back to
artworks their inherent value in solidifying an
artist’s idea. This is achieved by synchronizing
an user’s music library to an online database,
thus allowing him to scroll through an album’s
digital booklet while listening to it.
concept
The Booklet logo echoes the iOS7 flat styling
and was conceived in oder to synthesize the
essence of the service it provides through a
stylization of an LP and a CD booklet. The palette
features the same colours I used inside of the app.

7. FLOWCHART
The app has three sections - Profile, music and news. The user can access each of them from the home screen, which will be
the first to open after the app has been opened. There is a featured screen for first-time users that automatically pops up when
the app is opened for the first time. Here, the user is prompted to import the music he has downloaded on his phone and/or his
Spotify playlists. Every section is accessible at anytime thanks to a dedicated menu. It is also possible to control the music the
user is listening to through a drop-down menu (opened by swiping your finger upwards starting from the bottom of the screen).

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1. Booklet
2. skip pagie button
3. track name / artist
4. favourites
5. album artwork
6. volume
7. repeat / Random track
views

9. first run / subscription
menu
screenshots

11. profile page
followers / Following
news feed
screenshots

12. project
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RTWORKS
This project, which was part of
my undergraduate thesis, saw
me recreate a series of album
covers as if they were commis-
sioned to me. I also set a strict
deadline to my work, in order to
replicate an actual working en-
vironment. While selecting the
subjects, I also considered their
marketability and tried thus to
cater to my imaginary clients as
best as I could.

13. The title here is visualized through a study of the human figure, whose colours were
heavily modified. The bright palette I used is meant to represent the physical strain
crying creates on the body, as well as being a callback to an infrared visual. There is
also a strong juxtaposition between the dark background and the main figure.
The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry

14. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The image represents the exhilaration and the sense of confusion one feels when
confronted with an unknown environment. In my mind, this relates strongly to the-
me of childhood, and how everything feels at the same time enticing and dan-
gerous when your perception of the world is still immature. The orange sky in the
background is contrasting with the awe-inspiring building in the foreground, and is
also a sign of a paranoia approaching its end. The photo of the building is a pano-
ramic view of a building in Hashima, a now deserted Japanese island which once
had the most dense population in the world compared to its size.

15. This image is a callback to the album title and the collective unconscious the band’s
synth-pop sound evocates. It features an aerial view of a mountain range peeking
through a thick layer of clouds. The focus of the image, though, is a huge hole
overlooking a galaxy. The sky and the clouds have a material feel thanks to their
thickness, which can be clearly felt by looking at the rim of the hole. Surrealism had
a strong influence on this work.
Tears For Fears - Mad World

16. This artwork is a clear omage to psychedelia, a phenomenon the first incarnation of
Pink Floyd represented perfectly. The image features no inscription whatsoever, and
is supposed to have a transparent sticker bearing its title. The basis for the image
was a picture of a flock of pink flamingos. I worked on it in order to make it difficult
for the viewer to understand what it represents, thus allowing him to subconsciously
build his own interpretation of the piece.
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

17. In order to express the feeling behind one of Dylan’s best albums, I designed a co-
ver that tried to evocate the general idea of longing, hopelessness and confusion
which permeates its lyrics. The images shows a slightly titlted, vandalized picture of
Dylan and Joan Baez, his companion at the time, inside of a golden frame. The cut
in the picture, reminiscing of Lucio Fontana’s “Spacial Concepts”, wants to evocate
the way one feels when he’s trying to hold onto something beautiful that he knows
he is going to eventually lose.
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

18. The “Houses of the Holy” of the title aren’t an actual place, and so
no photograph could ever represent the ineffable they represent.
They’re more like a state of the mind, something mellifluous, an
half-forgotten memory, or a dream. This is why I decided to use
Bruegel’s picture of the Tower of Babel as the basis for the image.
The original picture is seen through two layers (one of which is he-
avily distorted), which causes the overall feeling of the image to be
one of deja-vù.
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

19. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead’s In Rainbows is a chromatic journey through which we are led by
guitars and acoustic percussions, which weren’t part of the band’s comfort zone
for years. They convey a feeling of simplicity and flexibility, and are effectively used
to paint emotional pictures through its songs. This is why I decided to use pixel
art for this piece. Just like playing with a traditional set of instruments might feel
“easy” for an unexperienced onlooker, pixel art challenges the viewer because
of how easily it’s supposedly created. I worked on a complex image, but then
decided to scrap it in favour of a detail which - if zoomed in - is reminiscing of the
“rainbows” of the title.

20. The following images are a selection of the posters and artworks I‘ve made as
TRUTH. TRUTH is a pseudonym I use for my personal projects. I’d like it to become
a “brand” in which I could gather both my professional and amateur work.

21. In the previous page: “Multi-Queen”, poster 2014
Under: “Modern Totems”, poster 2014

22. “PIXIES POSTER CONTEST - I’m In Love With Your Daughter”, poster 2014

23. “Reunion”, poster 2014

25. “ N / O / / S / E / L / F / I / E / S ”, poster 2014
“Eugene Quell (Fan-Artwork)”, poster 2014

26. TRUTH for SECRET 7” CONTEST 2015

27. Maccabees / St. Vincent / Underworld / Diana Ross & The Supreme

28. Here you’ll find a selection of my works. All of these were commissioned to me and used as album
covers or flyers.
“Kubla Khan - Sing The Night Away”, album cover 2015

29. “Dendrophilia - Dendrophilia”, album cover 2015

30. These are two EP artworks I’ve made for Misty City (an italian band based in
Brescia) in 2013. The one on top is the cover for their first Single “Flaming Girl”
while other one is titled “We Were Demos”.

31. “Egle - Egle”, album cover 2015
“Reunion - NOBODY MATTERS [single]”, album cover 2014

32. “Marie Byrd Land Band - This In All About Our Place & Time [EP]”, album cover 2015

33. “June Miller / Dowsing / Annabel live @ Ligera, Milano”, flyer 2013