Art Bianca Costanzo and the World Drawn with Fingers
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Bianca Costanzo and the World Drawn with Fingers

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Giulia Guido

Drawing with your fingers may seem like child’s play. Yet, in the hands—or better, the fingers—of Bianca Costanzo, it becomes a form of art. That’s how Disegnini con le dita was born, a project that starts on an iPhone but ends up telling an entire universe. A universe made of simple shapes, of lines that don’t shout but stay, of colors full of silence. Bianca was born in Milan in 1996, but her drawings don’t seem to belong to any specific place. They exist where people stop and truly look.

Behind the apparent immediacy of her stroke lies a clear intention: choosing synthesis as a method, a signature, a possibility. Drawing with a finger is not just a technical limit: it’s a way to remain close to the essence of things. A way to take away, instead of adding. And it’s precisely in this simplicity that her illustrations strike a chord—not for what they show, but for what they evoke.

Bianca studied Graphic Design & Art Direction at NABA, and later chose the path of animation. During her 2D Animation Master at IED, she discovered that images can walk, speak, breathe. And most of all, that she loves doing it together with others. That’s how Quel che rimane was born—a short film created with Gaia de Napoli, Cristina Capoano, and Federica Tornaghi. A forgotten tavern, a host who resists, a time that seems frozen. Poetry lies in the void, in the little things, in the gesture that repeats itself.

Out of that project—and a deep personal connection—a dream was born: Studio FonFon. A real and imagined place where illustration, graphics, and animation meet without ever overpowering one another. Bianca Costanzo knows that what she loves most is giving things a face, trying to give an image to something that would otherwise remain in the air. And in doing so, she inevitably leaves something of herself behind.

Disegnini con le dita is not a quirk—it’s a declaration of intent. Using the simplest tool to go deeper.

The more I search for myself, the more I get lost
Bianca Costanzo
Feet in the water
Bianca Costanzo
I almost always find myself again
Bianca Costanzo
My head is full of seaweed
Bianca Costanzo
I wish I felt lighter
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Written by Giulia Guido

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