Global conversations and reflections

In an increasingly fast and interconnected world, a magazine can slow down the pace and become a space for reflection and learning. This is the role of illywords.

For several years, the magazine has published dialogues, opinions and points of view on themes dear to a company living in the contemporary world. Topics have covered space, courage, dreams, multiculturalism, awareness, chaos and the non-linear path of knowledge, to name just a few.

The illy ‘words’ belong to people from different countries, cultures and professions who are part of illycaffè’s human and professional network around the world. They convey varying opinions and points of view which narrate life through each author’s language and personal experience of it.

Each issue of illywords is illustrated with images by students from schools of art and design throughout the world, who turn the magazine into their own laboratory of personal and collective creativity.

We decided to open and enrich the network’s thoughts of illywords to interact and jointly create new worlds and new images.

The views of all of us will contribute to enrich a new generation of creative enthusiasts.

Editorial Team

Ariella Risch

A freelance journalist since 1991, is a corporate animal who likes to explore. After the publicity, science, art, design, editorial projects is put on the network. She loves to eat but also cook. Provided low heat.

Roberta Corradin

For over a decade Roberta Corradin has been covering travel and food for Italian Marie Claire, La Repubblica, L'Espresso, Gambero Rosso, illywords and others. Her Italian rendition of Spices, History of a Temptation by Jack Turner was awarded with Premio Costa d'Amalfi. She edited the English version of Nonna Genia's Classic Langhe Cookbook. Her fiction works are published in German, French, and Spanish. Her last book Le cuoche che volevo diventare was published in Italy by Einaudi in 2008 and was awarded with Premio Costa d'Amalfi and Premio Libri da gustare.

Mauro Scanu

I am a science writer. Currently, I am focused on energy and climate issues but occasionally I write about psychology and cognitive science. In the past, I have published two books: a biography of Margherita Hack, a well-known Italian astrophysicist, and a collection of interviews about the Italian brain drain. At the moment I am author and producer of Enel TV's monthly science .

Angela Vettese

Angela Vettese is an art critic and curator. She is the Director of the Graduate Programme in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the Iuav University in Venice, where she teaches Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Art as an Associate Professor. She has taught at numerous fine arts academies, at the Bocconi University in Milan (2000/2007) and since 1986 she has written for the Sole 24 Ores Domenica magazine. She is President of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice (since 2002) and Director of Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan (since 2008). She has published essays in catalogues for institutions and has written several books, among others Capire l’arte contemporanea (Understanding Contemporary Art, Allemandi, Turin 1996 and 2006), Artisti si diventa (Becoming an Artist, Carocci, Rome 1998), A cosa serve l’arte contemporanea (The Purpose of Contemporary Art, Allemandi, Turin 2001) Ma questo è un quadro (This is a Picture, Carocci, Rome 2005).

Marco Minuz

Italian, 31 years old, a scolastic career compose of wrong strategic choices (diploma in telecomunication, architecture, journalism) but internally a mysterious sense of serendipity. One day I discovered, thank the enthusiam of a university professor, a strange sense of affinity with the world of art. Since then I've been involved in working with different projects and museum such as Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Now I'm working on editorial, curatorial, photographic and cultural projects. I teach at the university while remaning a student myself. I'm interested in working in many fields and with different people in order to study interdisciplinary aspects of the art world. I'm interested in "radioactive" people, those are able to "contaminate" people around them.

Alexandra M. Korey

A professor of art history and arts blogger with a passion for all that is Italy, arts, design, technology, and social media. Born in Toronto Canada, she now makes Florence Italy her home (after completing her studies in Toronto, Syracuse NY, and the PhD at the University of Chicago). In traditional media, she has published articles on 16th-century German and Italian prints and an encyclopedia entry on Artemisia Gentileschi... but she lives for the instant satisfaction of writing about art for the various blogs she curates, including the official blog for the arts in Tuscany.

Silvia Vatta

Silvia Vatta was born in Trieste in 1983. For about 7 years she lived and studied in Venice, and she’s still in love with that city. Now she lives and works in London, in the visual arts. She tries to discover as many things as possible. She loves when people tell her stories, in any form: written, designed, filmed,cooked or in song.

Anna Adriani

Global PR Director, illycaffé

Manuela Castiglione

After completing her studies in Venice in Marketing and Communication, Manuela had been working in Milan and Bologna in the PR and Communication field. In love with the idea of personally evolving by melting with other cultures, she decided in 2007 to move together with her family to Berlin where she has been living, working and blogging. She is passionately fond of diverse areas, from psychology to contemporary art, from fashion design all through sustainability in its various expressions.

Eleonora Pallavicino

Eleonora has always loved studying, reading, discovering, traveling and writing. After some early experience in editing, she got her PHD in diplomatics and started her academic job as a researcher, eventually becoming Curator of the Durazzo Giustiniani Historical Library in Genoa (Italy). Later on she switched to the corporate world and worked in customer service and communication area. In 2005 she enthusiastically moved with her family to Shanghai to begin a new Asian life: she started studying Chinese, discovering Asia and working as an Italian language teacher, a translator and web writer.

Editorial team

illywords Editorial Team consists of a small editorial staff based in Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, China, Brasil and United States. Each contributors of the Editorial Team is the outpost that watches with attention and a lot of curiosity what´s going on in the megalopolis where he or she lives to report on illywords pages.

Marco Sanchez

Marco studied film and communication in his hometown São Paulo where he directed a short film, produced advertising films, did PR for a concert hall and wrote about television for a women’s magazine. In 2006 left Brazil and moved to Berlin. His experience in the music industry led him to tour manage a few bands and he spent 3 years working around the world. On the last years divide his time between New York, Berlin and São Paulo where he produces parties, organizes concerts and writes about his passions: film, music, art, culture and life.

Rita Buonarroti

Rita studied Architecture at the University of Florence. She worked in an Architectural Studio in her hometown, specializing mostly in renovation of historic buildings. In 2001 she moved to New York where she worked for several years in the architectural office of fashion house Prada. After a two-year break in Munich, Germany she returned with her family to New York.

Makiko Hayasaka

Nazzarena Barni Fritsch

Camila Molina

Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

Irina Zucca Alessandrelli is an art critic and independent curator. She studied art history between Milan and Paris. She then moved to New York to work at the not for profit space Art in general and then at P.S.1/MoMA for almost a year, as assistant to the chief curator. As Fulbright scholar she attended a Master in Curatorial Studies program at Columbia University in New York, and worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the last big Marcel Duchamp show. She has been selected for “Young Curators International” at Fondation Ricard/FIAC Fair, Paris. She has been writing for the last 10 years on these art magazines: Flash Art, Kult, Exibart on paper, Mousse. She has curated several group shows in New York and in Italy in public and private spaces, presenting American talents for the first time in Europe. Since 2009, she writes for Il Sole 24ore, Arteconomy.

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Caroline Lewis

Caroline is a travel writer based in London. For the past two years, she’s been trying out boutique hotels for size and writing about them for Mr & Mrs Smith’s online collection and offline guidebooks. Favourite trips have included overland escapades from Rio to Quito, Tokyo to Koh Phi Phi and Darwin to Melbourne. These days, home is in London’s edgy East End, where she can happily find great coffee and good food on her doorstep. http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/

Lauren Rayner

Lauren loves discovering new things – whether it’s a newly opened bar in north-west London or a pop up event in the West End – and writing about them. She is a regular contributor to blogs that celebrate the great things London has to offer. She loves finding new things both on her doorstep and further afield: she is a passionate traveller and delights in experiencing different cultures, languages and food. Lauren works in the advertising industry by day and is currently studying her masters in professional writing.

Chelsie Doyle

Chelsie is always keen to try new experiences – from mountain climbing in Peru to skydiving in New Zealand – she’ll try anything once, and then tell everyone about it. An avid traveller and shameless foodie, she’s packed away the suitcase for a while and put down roots in London. Working in PR by day, her free time is spent exploring the myriad parks, galleries and museums the city has to offer. Or sampling the culinary delights of its exotic street vendors, quirky cafes and tantalizing food markets.

Sarah Jappy

Sarah is a travel writer who lives in the darkest depths of east London, and works in the sunniest heights of west London for Mr & Mrs Smith, the boutique hotel specialists (www.mrandmrssmith.com). During the day, you’ll find her writing destination guides, blog posts and hotel reviews; by night, she’ll be scouring Shoreditch’s Pho Mile for the best spicy quail or piggy aubergine.

Francesca Toffoli

Chiara Basso

She is a freelance journalist in New York. How did she arrive there? After her degree in Lettere Moderne at the University of Bologna, she started traveling and doing different and crazy jobs. Then, while working at Harrod’s in London, she had a call: "I will be a journalist" she thought. She went back to Italy, she earned a Masters in journalism at IULM University in Milan and for four years worked at the TMNews press agency in Rome. In 2010 she moved to New York where she is currently working for Il Secolo XIX, the Corriere della Sera magazine Sette, Gioia, Amica and Il Sole24 Ore website. She writes about very different topics such as the U.S. politics, lifestyle, art and economics.

Steven Guarnaccia

Steven Guarnaccia is Associate Professor of Illustration at Parsons The New School for Design, and was the director of the Illustration Program for the last seven years. He was previously art director of the Op-Ed page of the New York Times. During his 35-year career as an internationally recognized illustrator he has worked for major magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Abitare, Rolling Stone and Domus, has created murals for Disney Cruise Lines, and exhibition drawings for a show of Achille Castiglione’s work at the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of books on popular culture and design, including Black and White, a book on the absence of color, published by Chronicle Books and he is the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books. Guarnaccia has designed watches and packaging for Swatch, and greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art. He has won awards from the AIGA, the Art Directors Club, and the Bologna Book Fair and has exhibited his work in one-man shows in the USA and Europe. His latest book is The Three Little Pigs, An Architectural Tale, published by Corraini Editore in Italy and Abrams in the US.