Of the novels in the famous Urania series, an unmistakable feature (in addition to the science fiction subject) are the covers. Glimpses of alien planets, spaceships in flight, strange robots and extraterrestrial creatures, which in the "classic" format adopted for a long time and revived again in recent times, are inscribed within a red circle. Franco Brambilla, for more than twenty years t
he author of precisely those suggestive and futuristic covers that we cannot fail to identify immediately as those of the Urania books, told us, on the occasion of the publication of his book Fantastic Spaceships ... and
Where to Find them.
Who is Franco Brambilla
Cover designer for Urania Mondadori for a long time, Franco Brambilla is also the author of an art project born in 2007 which over the years has conquered blogs and magazines all over the world: Invading The Vintage, in which the author declines sci-fi elements such as alien creatures, spaceships and robots within the retro contexts depicted on his grandfather's postcards. An "invasion" that creates surreal scenarios, combining images with a 60s and 70s flavor to objects and characters that are literally out of this world. The project by the Milanese illustrator thus becomes part of the retrofuturist exhibition Futur Anterieur in Paris in 2012, the Independent Arts Festival in Belgium in 2014 and two exhibitions dedicated by the Municipality of Segrate in 2016 respectively called Invading Segrate and Invading The Vintage.
