Marco Goran Romano

Marco Goran Romano is an illustrator and designer from South Italy, currently living and working in Jesi, in the Marche region. From 2011 to 2015, he worked as a resident illustrator at the Italian editorial office of WIRED magazine in Milan. He later co-founded the studio Sunday Büro, focusing his design practice on type design and lettering. Since the end of 2024, he has been part of the digital type foundry CAST — Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici. In 2011, he was named one of the top 10 young designers by the American magazine Adweek. During those same years, his work received multiple accolades from the Society of Publication Designers in New York, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, and Creative Quarterly. He was also selected by Print magazine as one of the 20 Under 30 – New Visual Artists of 2014. In both 2016 and 2018, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Illustration (Design category) by the Associazione Autori di Immagini. Throughout his career, he has developed illustration and lettering projects for brands such as Airbnb, ANAS, ENEL, Facebook, Fujifilm, Google, IBM, IKEA, Snapchat, Skype, and Starbucks. He has also works with renowned editorial publications including ESPN, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, GQ, Internazionale, La Repubblica, Le Monde, Men’s Health, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and the iconic TIME magazine. Alongside his creative and artistic practice, he also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, where he holds a tenured professorship, and at the ISIA — Higher Institute for Artistic Industries in Florence.