2025 Edition...how was it?
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The Winner
Micol Fontana
Micol Fontana, illustrator and graphic designer from Rome, participated and won the first edition of Radici Festival with "La Radice".
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The Jury of the Edition
Giuseppe Talarico
After a winding path, with jobs that had little or nothing to do with art and design, since 2016 he has definitively approached the world of creativity. This atypical background makes him extremely versatile and open to collaborations ranging from publishing to the streetwear world. Since 2022 he has been the art director of the project THE CALABRESER, a creative challenge that allows him to put all his experience and vision into practice. In 2025 he opens Colosso Studio, a creative agency based in Reggio Calabria. He currently works as a freelance Illustrator and Art Director.
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Anna Catalano
Founder and artistic/project director of Fotografia Calabria Festival. Freelance photographer, she collaborates with companies, NGOs, universities, institutions, and newsrooms. With the project "Senza Colpe", which became a traveling exhibition, she is helping to inform and raise public awareness about the issue of children imprisoned with their mothers in Italian Icam and nursery sections.
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Matteo Sainato
An architect from Catanzaro, graduated from Sapienza University of Rome, since 2007 he has led Studio Sainato with a focus on residential and hotel design. Also an expert in tourism and hotel management, he holds managerial and consulting roles. Board member of the Catanzaro Order of Architects (2021–2025) and art director of MUDIAC since 2023, he is active in cultural and association fields. Passionate about photography, he trained at the ICP in New York and at the European Institute of Design in Rome, where he earned a Master’s degree. He combines creativity and strategic vision to enhance the territory through architecture, art, and tourism.
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Deborah De Rose
Communication consultant, also a cultural project designer and lawyer specialized in copyright and intellectual property law. She is Art Director of the Cose Belle Festival – creativity, illustration, and design (cosebellefestival.it) which, in 2025, reaches its 9th edition. She created the artist residency project Cose Belle OFF – Artist Residency for illustrators, and the International Illustration Contest Cose Belle Contest. She founded the brand Calabria Illustrata, to create products and services that narrate the land of Calabria with the involvement of talented illustrators. She is also President of the association Interazioni Creative.
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