Studio Temp is a graphic design studio founded by Guido Daminelli, Marco Fasolini and Fausto Giliberti in 2007 in Bergamo. He mainly deals with type-design, visual identity, editorial graphics and web design. Their visual research is oriented towards a process of formal simplification, contaminated by popular graphics and the international typographic style of graphic designers such as Josef Müller-Brockmann and Armin Hofmann. The precision of the design derives from eclectic historical references: from Japanese comics from the 80s such as Akira, a manga in the cyberpunk genre created by Katsuhiro Ōtomo, to the graphics of racing vehicles and rally cars from the 60s. Moving away from repetitive formats and processes, they develop projects that use artisan production techniques to generate designs that always maintain characterizing and different elements. To this end, they use and manipulate the peculiar visual references of their city, Bergamo, to get away from the risk of homogenization that characterizes many online graphic products.

The exhibition combines reworkings and displacements of symbols belonging to urban culture, to the subdivision of the rhythm of work and to Roman history, placing the museum in relation with the context of the Italian province. The title Tempus Fugit (time flees) takes up the inscription of a An antique clock in their studio, where it marks the rhythm of the working day, reproducing a dynamic similar to life in 20th-century factories. The object is abstracted, changed in color and reproduced on a large scale in the exhibition space. Thus a tension is generated between the passage of time, which refers to the inevitable end of life, and the enjoyment of the working process inspired by the creation of objects for amusement parks.

The carpet on the floor reproduces the TEMP logo, taken from the cover of a 1955 book by Armin Hofmann, magnified and repeated ad infinitum, following the space invasion mentality typical of graffiti and tags. Eight wall plaques are inspired by the typical format and style of the stone toponymy of Rome, proposing images derived from previous graphic and lettering works never presented by the studio and mixed with everyday graphics.