A small field manual for an unstable ecosystem. In this place, T-shirts sometimes behave like stories, and stories occasionally disguise themselves as objects. If you’re looking for Anima della Festa, this is where to start.

There’s a particular kind of humor that lives somewhere between curiosity and irony. It’s the kind you develop when you grow up loving science fiction, old cartoons, bad sci-fi movies, elegant theories, failed experiments, and the uncomfortable feeling that technology is always one step ahead of us. That’s the space where my illustrations live.

There’s something magical about a funny t-shirt. It’s the most democratic form of art ever invented: one image, one joke, a bit of attitude — and suddenly you’re walking around wearing a tiny piece of storytelling on your chest. At Anima della Festa, that’s basically my entire mission: turning strange ideas, nerd references, retro robots, and mildly dangerous levels of humor into wearable illustrations.

It’s called CHRONICLES FROM THE FUTURE: 111 Stories to Survive Tomorrow. A collection of short, sharp, often radioactive tales about the future we’re building one bad idea at a time.