He is an illustrator, designer, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata.
Marco Goran Romano is an Apulian illustrator and designer who lives and works in Jesi, in the province of Ancona.
From 2011 to 2015 he worked as the resident illustrator in the Italian editorial office of WIRED magazine in Milan, and later co-founded the studio Sunday Büro, directing his design practice toward type design and lettering.
Since late 2024 he has been part of the digital type foundry CAST — Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici.
In 2011 he was listed among the “10 Best Young Designers” by the American weekly Adweek. In those same years, his work earned multiple awards from New York’s Society of Publication Designers, as well as from Communication Arts, Applied Arts, and Creative Quarterly. He was also named one of Print magazine’s “20 Under 30 – New Visual Artists” for 2014, and in both 2016 and 2018 he received the Gold Medal for Illustration (Design category) from the Associazione Autori di Immagini.
Over the course of his career, he has had the opportunity to undertake lettering and illustration projects for brands such as Airbnb, ANAS, ENEL, Facebook, Fujifilm, Google, IBM, IKEA, Snapchat, Skype, and Starbucks. He has also collaborated with renowned editorial outlets including ESPN, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, GQ, Internazionale, La Repubblica, Le Monde, Men’s Health, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and the celebrated weekly TIME.
In addition to his design and artistic work, he also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, where he holds a professorship, and at the Higher Institute for Artistic Industries in Florence.