Valentina Casali is an Italian multidisciplinary letterer and type designer.

She practices sign-painting, letter carving and other typographic applied arts and would be happy to help you design your new sign or tombstone.

Together with Marco Goran Romano, she co-founded her studio Sunday Büro, which designs editorial illustrations, custom lettering, type and infographics for ADs and books.

Since August 2023 you can find her name among the C-A-S-T Foundry members, where she’s currently drawing typefaces and learning about licensing. Pritzious is the first typeface she ever released.

She teaches lettering at ABA Macerata. Her love for learning methods led to design a new tool to teach calligraphy and hand-writing in a different way, researching propaedeutics to help students develop their own style.

She is a graduate of Type@Cooper Extended Program class 2021.
She also graduated with greatest honour at the Expert Type Design Class at the Plantin Instituut voor Typografie (Plantin Institute of Typography) in Antwerp.
She was Teaching Assistant in the Principle of Typeface Design workshop with Troy Leinster at Type@Cooper for the ‘21 fall edition.

Since she cannot get her hands to rest, you may buy Tiger Mochi textiles: a small brand she started as a side project, which produces punch needle home accessories, with a slow and non-competitive philosophy.

She's a board member of Lettering da, a lettering association, which promotes and supports Italian urban typographic heritage.

In 2023 she briefly served in the TDC Advisory Board.

Contact me

I'm available for freelance projects.
I love to work for small and big brands, ranging from packaging to advertising, to editorial design.

If you are a charitable organization please feel free to write me, let's see if I can help you.

I am also available for personal commissions (tattoo designs or wedding invitations) depending on the current work load.

Public speaking or workshop? Let’s talk about it.

EMAIL ME!

If you wish to work with me, please get to know and respect the rules of Creative Fair Play.

Get in touch

I love Instagram, Behance and Dribbble, plus you can read silly things about me on Mastodon. I’m not active anymore on Facebook and Twitter.

Selected Clients

Talks

Barilla, Barron’s, Cossignani, Entertainment Weekly, EPIC Magazine, Esperia, Facebook, Gaia Segattini Knotwear, Hoppìpolla, Il Mucchio Selvaggio, Il Sole24Ore, Medium, Moleskine, Mondadori, La Stampa, Rivista Ufficiale NBA, Piemme, RVM magazine, Senzatomica, Silvana Editoriale, Snapchat, The Envelope (LA Times), The New Yorker, Variety, Vita Magazine, WIRED.

Vado e torno: lettering e nostalgia.
Il Mondo Disegnato, il primo festival italiano dedicato all’illustrazione turistica, Grottammare (AP).

Awards

AIAP Woman in Design Award 5 – Awarded by ZetaFonts
Type Directors Club – Certificate of Typographic Excellence / The World’s Best Typography®, 2022
Communication Arts — Typography Excellence, 2022
Communication Arts — Typography Excellence, 2019
Communication Arts — Typography Excellence, 2018
AIAP Women Design Awards, 2018
Communication Arts — Typography Excellence, 2016
Communication Arts — Typography Excellence, 2015

Carissimo Pinocchio – ADI Design Museum, Milano, 2023
Letrástica Festival – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2022.
Utopian Hours 2022, A World with 8 Billion Cities – Turin, 2022.
New Beginnings – The Lettering Arts Trust, Snape Maltings, United Kingdom, 2020.
The Pre-Vinylettes’ Suffragette Centennial – Ford Gallery, Portland, USA, 2020.

Exhibitions

Selected press

Valentina Casali ––– IT02582110421

About