The Ginancial Police with Armando Testa to make the historical 2026 Calendar full of colour.

Wednesday  26 November,  the 2026 edition of the Financial Police calendar was presented at the “Salone d’Italia” in the National Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in Rome. It was created by the Armando Testa  agency and the photographer Massimo Sestini.

The project is entitled “Tre colori, un mondo” (Three colours, one world), and it presents an unique perspective on the work carried out by the Financial Police, with special emphasis on the less visible and often more complex activities of the economic-financial police.  

The Armando Testa agency is proud and enthusiastic to support the vital commitment of the Financial Police in safeguarding the economic-financial security of the country. 

That’s how the creative idea took on different forms, from the most dynamic to more digital, concentrating from the very beginning on bringing together the visual synthesis of the graphics and the expressive power of the photography while using a limited palette of colours: grey, yellow and green. By using only the iconic  colours of the Corps and a style that might be defined as photo-graphic, the agency worked by subtraction, hiding to reveal actions, and removing to add meaning. 

The Armando Testa agency, with executive creative direction from Michele Mariana, worked closely with the photo reporter Massimo Sestini, winner of a World Press Photo award, to create the images in the calendar. His powerful black and white shots  specially created on location became the canvas  onto which the creative team grafted geometric patterns, colour fields and words to simultaneously complement and enhance the images. 

So the thirteen shots became first of all thirteen works of art and then finally thirteen involving stories  which express the values of the Police, their commitment, dedication and spirit of service of all their members in a powerful way. 

An institutional and artistic project where the creative agency faced the challenging task of  developing a distinctive and memorable language, which could provide a comprehensive description of the wide-ranging and complex work, even the less well known aspects,  that the women and the men in the Financial Police perform every day,                                                               

Credits: 

Client: Ente Editoriale per il Corpo della Guardia di finanza (Financial Police Publications department)

Agency: Armando Testa

Executive Creative Director: Michele Mariani

Creative team: Dario D’Angelo, Stefano Arrigoni, Danilo Gioannini

Head of client service Turin: Giovanna Farè

Client service: Chiara Bonet

Photographer: Massimo Sestini