COSMOPOLITAN

CREATIVE: Alex Valentina
CLIENT: Cosmopolitan Italy
ROLE: 3D Illustration, Experiential

Alex Valentina creates a luminous bestiary for Cosmopolitan Italy's 2026 Pride float, building an iridescent underwater ecosystem where jellyfish, seahorses, octopi, sea squirts, and coral coexist in a world of liquid synaesthesia. Each creature is rendered with his signature blend of 3D art and real photography, their pearlescent, glass-like forms shifting between soft pinks, teals, and warm golds against dreamy gradient atmospheres. The collection unfolds as both a poster and a numbered series of individual portraits, each paired with a quiet, poetic caption that gives every creature its own identity and emotional world. Displayed across Piazza della Repubblica in Rome on June 20th, the work transforms Pride into an ecosystem where every difference finds its place, luminous, evolving, and free.