Sketchbook, the new wallpaper collection by Inkiostro Bianco

What is an illustration?
It is not a simple drawing, it is a story that demands being told.
The new collection presented by Inkiostro Bianco starts from the concept of illustration and develops it thanks to the cooperation with designers in and outside the Company.

Each designer has interpreted the theme according to her/his background and technical knowledge.
Each person is an independent microcosm with its own emotions, intuition and aesthetic taste.
Within this microcosm, everyone perceives reality according to its unique style.

Memories, thoughts, impressions, scribbles, drawings and sketches, temporary and meaningful notes.
What is noted on the sketchbook doesn’t matter; simple initial traits which could be apparently unconnected can transform into emotions in visual shape thanks to the hand and the mind of the artist.

The proposed path explores romantic reminiscences, memories and landscapes, as well as naturalistic illustrations noted on the sketchbook of the author, who dedicate himself to Nature’s observation and the study of colour.

The drawing is a tool to visually meditate on deep issues: transience, fragility of life that is represented through floral subjects inspired by Flemish XVII century paintings.

This becomes a sensorial itinerary: among the pages of one of the chosen sketchbooks emerge pictures referred to the observation of the four seasons, particularly the shapes, the colours, that synthetically express the evolution of man and nature through the different moments of the year.

By flipping the pages of the sketchbook, it is possible to release a dreamy and fantasy atmosphere through the comic-style and visionary illustrations of Orient-inspired characters. The themes of flight and play are proposed in a twine of subjects where nature and surreal symbolic visions are a continuous nourishment for fantasy.

Some of these snapshots depict issues that are more than ever urgent and real: mobility as exchange and interaction among people is represented through movement and mixes with the theme of simplicity of the little things, make more explicit in fabled landscapes and in refined lines, traits, arches, curves, floral geometries and silhouettes.

The sketchbook thus becomes travelogue, notebook, block-notes. In all its shapes it is the guardian of new-born ideas and outlined sketches, noted right on the moment they come to the mind.

The enchantment and sense of discovery increase page after page, opening the chest of these treasures unveiling marvellous things.

Flipping the pages of the sketchbook is like looking at the world from a perspective any time different, thus recalling the moment or situation in which a particular idea was born.

Each page is a new world to be explored, a new story to be told.
A multitude of thoughts freewheeling and inviting the imagination to be guided by curiosity, with no fear for the white blank page.