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Carin Marzaro

July 21, 2021

Mindsparkle Mag

Carin Marzaro

Carin Marzaro is the personal portfolio of the Italian creative director and designer of the same name, and it wears its craft lightly. The whole page turns on one elegant, high-contrast serif line — “immagini con carattere” — set large across a soft cream backdrop, with the designer’s name ghosted faintly behind it. A tidy top navigation and a row of underlined disciplines (direzione creativa, identity, visual design, illustrazione, digital) quietly map out the breadth of her practice. There is barely any decoration, and that is precisely the point: the confident typography and generous negative space do all the work. It is a poised, understated exercise in art direction that trusts the reader to lean in.

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