This poster features works from the Collage on the run series made by designer Mimmo Cozzolino during the COVID lockdowns from 2020-2022. Mimmo combines found objects and images to create surprising, playful, quirky collages that invite us to see things differently.
Mimmo Cozzolino is an Italian-born Australian designer, photographer and artist. In 1975 he co-founded ‘All Australian Graffiti’, a freelance illustration co-operative and for over three decades Cozzolino partnered in and ran his own design studios. Cozzolino has co-authored books including the best-selling The Kevin Pappas Tear-Out Postcard Book, (Penguin Books, 1977) and Symbols of Australia (Penguin Books, 1980), the first ever study of Australian trademarks and commercial iconography. He has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Cozzolino holds a Diploma of Art & Design/Graphic Design from Prahran College of Advanced Education (1971), a Bachelor of Fine Art/Painting, Monash University (2005) and a Master of Fine Art/Photomedia from Monash University (2012). His artworks, photographs, designs and posters are held in the collections of the SLV, the NGA, RMIT Design Archive and in private collections.
Mimmo Cozzolino’s work is featured in The basement: photography from Prahran College (1968–1981).
