Eina realises that illustration has become an essential visual resource for the media (printed, audio-visual or digital medium), and has consequently established itself as a catalyst, bringing together the different origins, concerns, ambitions and ways of doing things that coexist in such a diverse sector. The aim of Eina’s postgraduate illustra...
«Waste […] will always follow the economic path of least resistance». Jim Puckett, committed environmentalist
The methodology designed to cut down on processes that do not create added value for a product is based on marginalising waste. This concept is summed up by the Japanese word muda, which means rubbish. for Italian-speakers among us,...
What meaning do you give to the word kaizen? Is there any link between your artistic work and this concept?
Kaizen means improvement, but as an artist I don’t pay much heed to this word, because of its industrial connotations. In this context, the word kaizen can be explained in terms of a succession of small changes, designed to simplify and i...
Starting from its core principle, that is the progressive reduction of waste in the production process considered as “anactivity" that adds costs without adding value”, kaizen’s philosophy may be equated with the principle of simplicity and simplification, two distinct modes of the same outlook.
Can such a concept, originally developed in an...
Where did your artistic career begin?
I have loved creating things since I was a child. Initially, I loved poetry – I used to love writing. Through writing, I discovered art. I wrote about art for quite a while and at the same time I began to paint, and noticed that painting didn’t completely satisfy me. It was as if my hand couldn’t reprodu...
Half an hour on an exercise bike to the tune of Dvorák’s New World Symphony. Nothing odd about that – except that in the meantime you’ve done a complete orbit around the Earth, flying over oceans and continents. The Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni has cycled through space on board a Shuttle on two separate occasions – in 1996 and 2001.
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Look in the most authoritative Italian dictionary, and you still won’t find the word kaizen. Italy’s cuisine, however, is one step ahead of its language and the coining of neologisms: it tends to reduce or eliminate the superfluous and concentrate on the essential.
In the 2004-2005 edition of the Dizionario della lingua italiana by Giacomo D...
To improve one’s work by getting rid of what is unneeded through constant and repetitive exercise. This seems to be the key to a calligrapher’s success, but very often deciding what to leave is anything but easy. What has your experience as a student of calligraphy and as an artist and respectively as a writer been in this respect?
Linda: As a...
Kaizen applied to personal development.
To understand how kaizen can apply to personal growth, we need to start with a definition: kaizen means searching for excellence along the road to improvement, one small step after another. This philosophy of development is very different from the Western concept, which has always thought that improvement ...
Ever since it was first used in management theory, the Japanese concept, kaizen, has intrigued me. So much so that, before gladly applying it in our company, more than fifteen years ago, I went to Japan to study it “on site” at Toyota, where the term was first seriously applied. There I was able to appreciate how efficient it is and see how thi...
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.