ABOUT

I’m Mila Margini, an Italian visual artist, illustrator and graphic designer. MilArt is my personal research space, where I bring together instinct, thought and composition.
I graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts. After completing my degree, I spent a year in the United States, where I studied Web Design and Graphic Design at college. When I returned to Italy, I worked as a graphic designer and art director between Milan and Trento, in advertising agencies.

After ten years in the field, I chose to teach, and today I teach graphic design subjects in an art high school. It was while working with my students that I rediscovered the urge to express myself personally.

At first, I thought I would transform my early paintings, but then something shifted. I reconnected with drawing, with the line, with sketching. The process became more important than the result: I start from a free sketch – sometimes by hand, sometimes digital – and build from there. Every mark is chosen, reduced, refined. I remove what’s unnecessary. Only the essential remains.

My work moves between instinct and control, form and rhythm. I seek balance between full and empty, between motion and stillness. My illustrations are a form of visual introspection. They invite you to pause, to look slowly.

I also love to design: to lay out, compose, work with typography, create posters, visual systems, and prints. For me, graphic design and illustration are two different ways of doing the same thing: giving shape to a thought.

"Now I invent my own boat."
My son said this while I was working on this website.
And it stayed with me, like a gentle sign.
Perhaps that’s what I’m really looking for: a visual boat, a language of my own, that can sail in its own way.