Poster in edizione limitata “Peace&War” (2024) Armando Milani

Born in Milan in 1940, Armando Milani is one of the most relevant figures in international graphic design. After studying at the Scuola Umanitaria in Milan under Albe Steiner, he began collaborating with Giulio Confalonieri and Antonio Boggeri. He opened his own studio in Milan in 1970 and moved to New York in 1976 to work with Massimo Vignelli. A few years later he opened his own studio in New York as well. He designs for De Padova, Edison, Roche, Ibm, Olivetti America, Lancia, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the United Nations, among others. From the 2000s he began to devote himself increasingly to social communication, to direct the public's attention to humanitarian issues of international impact. His rich professional activity counts about 300 works. Today he lives between his home studio in Milan and his French residence in Provence.

The first project launched by Hats Art Gallery is the iconographic poster ‘Peace & War’, designed by Armando Milani in 2002 and reproduced in silkscreen edition in 2024.

Selected for its high design and ethical value, ‘Peace & War’ represents a symbol of reflection on the duality between peace and conflict, a highly relevant and universal theme of today.

In 2003, the poster was donated to the United Nations with the claim ‘Translating War into Peace’.