Federica Del Proposto is an Italian illustrator born in Rome in 1978. Her passion for drawing emerged in childhood, eventually leading her to earn a degree in architecture. While working on her thesis, she began focusing on comics, publishing her first works with the Italian publishing house Coconino Press. Since 2012, she has dedicated herself exclusively to illustration, collaborating with various European and American publications, including The New York Times, Travel Magazine, Marie Claire, Chicago Magazine, Elle Paris, and The Wall Street Journal.

Her most recent collaboration was with The New Yorker, for which she created a series of illustrations to celebrate the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.

The style of these illustrations stays true to the defining features of her work: a synthesis of both elements and forms, bringing to life a series of characters engaged in different Olympic disciplines through just a few bold, precise lines.
The predominant use of white in this work further reinforces the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics, making it even more evocative.