• About

    Tankboys are an independent graphic studio born in 2005 and based in Venice. Its founders are Lorenzo Mason and Marco Campardo. They graduated at the Venice’s Design Faculty of IUAV and they haven’t stopped working together ever since. Tankboys deal with arts and communication, focusing mainly on print and editorial projects. Over the years, they worked for clients such as Foscarini, Rotaliana, Circuito Off, La Biennale di Venezia, Skira, Havaianas, Teatro Stabile del Veneto Carlo Goldoni, Comune di Venezia, My Biennale Guide, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove and Fuoribiennale. In 2008 they co-founded XYZ, a non-profit gallery for the applied arts (graphics, photography, design) based in Treviso. In 2009 with llustrator Elena Xausa they gave birth to the independent publishing house Automatic Books.

  • Contacts

    Tankboys
    Lorenzo Mason and
    Marco Campardo

    San Polo 2811B
    30125, Venezia, Italy
    T: +39 041 5245285
    E: we_are(a)tankboys.biz

  • Education

    Gradueted in Design at the Arts and Design facoulty of Iuav Venice University

    Books (authored, edited)

    2011 A small conversation about things we always wonder about but we never understood
    2010 Love Walls
    2010 Manifesto, China
    2010 Ask the Shaman, Milano
    2009 Manifesto, Catalogue, curated with Cosimo Bizzarri
    2009 Love Mails

  • Exhibitions (curated)

    2010 Manifesto, Shandong university of design, Jinan, China
    2009 Manifesto, XYZ Gallery, Treviso, Italy

    Teaching, workshops, lectures, juries

    2010 Conference with Salottobuono, Villanova, Padova
    2010 Ailati 2.0, Lecture with Francesco Librizzi and Salottobuono, Milano, Italy
    2010 Radical architecture Workshop with Salottobuono, Iuav University, Venice
    2010 From boring to interesting, Workshop, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venezia
    2010 Young Italian graphic design, Jury, Milano, Italy
    2009 Artists’ Book Workshop, Iuav University, Venice
    2009 Tankboys VS Temp, Workshop with Temp studio, Iuav University, Venice
    2009 Object’s biographies, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venezia
    2008 XYZ, Workshop, Iuav University, Venice
    2007 Workshop at San Marino Design University
    2006 B-Shirt Sucks!, Workshop, Iuav University, Venice
    2006 We love to connect, Lecture, Iuav University, Venice

  • Solo exhibition

    2010 Obsolescenza, with Temp Studio, Pordenone, Italy
    2010 Two Shamans, wonder room, Milano
    2010 Love Walls, Be Quiet Please, Milano, Italy
    2009 Love Mails, XYZ Gallery, Treviso, Italy

  • Group exhibitions

    2011 Graphic Design Words, curated by Giorgio Camuffo, Triennale Design Museum
    2010 Fahrenheit 39, Ninapì nesting art gallery, Ravenna
    2010 Quali cose siamo, curated by Alessandro Mendini and Silvana Annicchiarico, Triennale Design Museum
    2010 One Year of Photocopies, DOCVA, Milan, Italy
    2009 Segni Divesi, curated by Giorgio Camuffo, Venice
    2008 Made in IUAV, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
    2006 Give peace another chance, Venice, Italy
    2006 Perché mi rifiuti? Fondazione Enrico Mattei, Venice, Italy

    Books

    2010 Fahrenheit 39, Catalogue
    2010 Quali cose siamo, Catalogue, Triennale Design Museum
    2010 Treviso Design Manifesto
    2009 Segni Diversi, curated by Giorgio Camuffo, Venice
    2009 Minimal Graphic Design, Maomao Publications

    Magazines

    2010 Abitare Magazine, Italy
    2010 Novum Magazine, Germany
    2009 Pig Magazine, Review, Italy
    2008 Pig Magazine, Interview, Italy
    2007 Kult Magazine, Talents column, interview

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