About

me

Blackpio is the creation of a vectorial world animated by pinkish roundness. The inhabitants of this website are always different; they change with both the changing of the seasons and with one’s state of mind. They look at the outside witheir huge eyes, seeking a sense and a reason in all that is around them. The same dreaming characters will soon also live on t-shirts, pins, postcards and posters.

It’s me, Valentina Sedda, born in 1983, a Sardinian designer of “Milanese” adoption who moulds this world.

The name Blackpio has developed out of my mania for black chicks, from the contrast of their being small and innocent but also rather dark.

The name was coined specifically from the contrasting opposites, from the seriousness of black and the playfulness of aping the chicks’ voices.

I began designing when I was very little; coloured pencils were my favourite toys. Maybe my first childhood memory takes me back to a summer evening when my two grandparents were sharpening pencils for me, standing at the window of my room. I was just a little over 2 years old.

I would like to make the people who look at my illustrations ask all those questions that often only children ask and dream only what they dream. Everyone should put the everyday routine in front of himself trying to find out its meaning, turning it over looking at it under new wonderful different aspects. I would like people to go over the tangibility of thins to discover their own world of imagination.

For me these designs represent the interiority coming out of the external reality, elaborating it again. My characters are often a representation of myself, of my moods and of my questions. I could say that they are looking around trying to understand how we are living, but ascribing to what they see a consolatory meaning transforming it into a story.

I take inspiration from the oneiric world, from memories and moods, from the words of a certain kind of music (such as in the illustrations: “War”, remake of the cover from the U2’s homonymous album; “Maxwell”, a cartoon story by the Beatles, “Maxwell’s silver hammer”; “Norwegian Wood”, design of many verses of the Beatles’ homonymous song), from books and films.

prizes

  • Runner-up in "Never Without You" contest for illustrate a Valentine`s Day t-shirt
  • Illustration Friday`s "Pick of the week" - topic: cracked

exhibition

  • April, 22nd and 23rd 2009 - FuoriSalone at Rita Favetti Studio, Milano
  • From May 28th to June 28th 2009 - Joy Cafe`, Milano
  • November, 28th 2009 - Tiffany Caffe`, Milano

speaking about me

Alter ego

Someone told about me