Beppe Giacobbe

Beppe Giacobbe was born in Milan in 1953 and started drawing almost immediately - with the paints from his father's palette. By the time he was ten he was copying Morandi and Cézanne, and studying piano at the same time. By his teenage years he was playing in a rock band, performing late into the night far from Milan. Too many absences cost him a year at school and landed him in his father's fabric shop - which, in retrospect, may have taught him something about surface and colour.

He went on to study at the Accademia di Brera, then spent three summers at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has created images and covers for publishers across Europe and America, illustrated books for children, and contributed to the Corriere della Sera for decades. He taught illustration for twenty-four years - first at IED Milan, then at ISIA Urbino.

In 2013, Lazy Dog Press published *Visionary Dictionary: Beppe Giacobbe from A to Z*, cataloguing the world in images. In 2024, Edizioni Bonvini 1909 published *Distrazioni* — personal research and editorial work across a career spent looking very carefully at things.