Career
He lives in London, United Kingdom, and is a dual citizen of Italy and the United Kingdom. He"s mostly known as the creator of the Gus & Waldo book series and animations, about a pair of gay penguins in love. His books have been translated and published in several countries, among which his native Italy, where he also publishes regularly for Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper. After obtaining an Master of Arts in Architecture at the University of Genoa in 1994, Fenati moved to London in 1995 to work as a product designer in the studio of Jasper Morrison.
He then moved to two more design practices (Pentagram and David Chipperfield Architects) before setting up his own studio in 2003.
After a few years of work in the furniture and product design industry for clients such as Innermost, Livingetc, Crabtree & Evelyn and Isos Collection, his career as a cartoonist started in 2006 in when his first Gus & Waldo book (Gus & Waldo"s Book Of Love) was published by Orion Books in the United Kingdom. The success of the first book led to two more volumes in the Gus & Waldo series (Gus & Waldo"s Book Of Fame, 2007 and Gus & Waldo"s Book Of Sex, 2008.
These were later republished together in the compendium Gus & Waldo Crazy In Love, 2010) and to publications in a number of foreign territories: Brazil, Germany, Finland and Italy among others In 2011 Fenati published 101 Uses Foreign A Dead Meerkat (Boxtree Limited), a book of cartoons, which was later translated an published also in Italy with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 2013.
Fenati also collaborates with British television production companies such as Tiger Aspect Productions, Endemol and Maverick, and produces motion graphics for programmes for British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4, and Sky, such as Embarrassing Bodies, Stephen Fry Gadget Manitoba, Dispatches and Ripper Street.
Since 2012 he collaborates with Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper and publishes regularly the comic for children Cico & Toto. He created the image and logo for the 2011 edition of the TGLFF (Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), and in 2013 he was appointed as curator of the new animation section at the same festival.
