"Massaranduba, the small agricultural town in the south of Brazil that Pedro grew up in is far from sci-fi, but this graphic designer's imagination takes him some place else. From posters, illustration, magazine layouts and typefaces (such as pieces that focus on sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin 's fictional Kesh alphabet), Pedro works digitally with a focus on textures and grit, using dithers and fractals to build upon visual world's textures. His projects are "mood-centred", which begin by assembling references from all over to refine feelings that are conjured up by consuming films, fashion, music and other visual forms."
""Since I was seven, I've been obsessed with space and physics. That curiosity turned me into an avid sci-fi reader very early on and as I grew up and began to understand my queerness, these interests started to merge and shape my worldview and later, my approach to design," says Pedro. "I love imagining new forms of technology that could expand our understanding of ourselves. ""
Pedro Stolf is a Brazilian-Italian graphic designer who wants to make science fiction queer, exciting and human-oriented again. Pedro criticizes the current dystopian association of sci‑fi with billionaire tech projects, surveillance and exploitative AI. Pedro grew up in Massaranduba and channels a lifelong obsession with space and physics into visual work that blends queerness and speculative imagination. Pedro works digitally with textures, dithers and fractals, producing mood-centred projects assembled from films, fashion, music and other references. Pedro draws on Y2K futurism and punk pop culture, citing influences such as Gregg Araki, Björk and The Matrix.
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