Maurizio Osti, artist, teacher, graphic and web designer, was born in Sasso
Marconi, a small town outside Bologna, Italy, famous as the country place where the
Nobel prize winner Guglielmo Marconi made his experiments and launched the first wireless message. He lives and works in Bologna. As an artist, he has participated in many national and international exhibitions including: Testuale. Le parole e le immagini, Milano, 1979; Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960-80, Roma 1981; Undicesima Quadriennale, Roma 1986; Arte e Alchimia, XLII Biennale di Venezia, 1986; Poesia Totale, Mantova 1998; Sulle tracce del Paratesto, Bologna 2004; Contemporanea, Bologna 2005; Il Libro d’Artista in Emilia-Romagna, Bologna 2005; Imagining the Book International Biennale 2007, Alexandria of Egypt, 2007; Biennale di Alessandria, Videofotografia contemporanea, Italy, 2008.
Since 1978 Osti has taught courses in Special Graphic Techniques and recently also the course of Progettazione Grafica, at the Accademia di Belle Arti, the very institute where Morandi once worked.
He is Art Director and designer of various websites such as the Normeinrete, Università di Padova, Baby nel Cuore, published by Happy Books in Web Design in Italy. 01. In 2009 he received the Premio Marconi for Multimedia Art.
For Osti, the typeface is the voice of text. Designing type is like giving an individual voice to the printed text. Paraphrasing John Ruskin, to draw clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
