Alessi exhibit in Munich

by Alexandra M. Korey | Jun 21, 2010 in Design, Exhibitions | Leave A Comment

If you can’t make it Munich to see the exhibit “Alessi Objects and Projects” about this iconic brand of Italian design, check out the website, a beautiful illustrated storybook…

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SVA design students spend two weeks in Italy

by Ariella Risch | Jun 07, 2010 in Design, Students | 1 Comment

Students of the Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice of the SVA spend two weeks in Venice and Rome; Ariella was a guest critic at the presentation of their projects in Venice

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@ Moma

by Mauro Scanu | May 11, 2010 in Design, Science | 1 Comment

Parliamo del simbolo @ che ha fatto parlare di sé visto che il Dipartimento di Architettura e Design del Moma di New York lo ha inserito nella sua collezione…

The @ symbol recently made the news as it entered the Moma collection… here’s why and a little history.

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A kind of paper facebook – the cover of illywords #28

by Alexandra M. Korey | Apr 20, 2010 in Conviviality, Design | Leave A Comment

Designer Marti Guixe recounts how the cover of illywords #28 developed out of a conversation between him and Pietro Corraini. I asked him to tell us about it while at his book signing party at Corraini’s Milan headquarters (in Zona Tortona). Click “read more” to see the video!

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Design everywhere you look at Fuorisalone

by Alexandra M. Korey | Apr 15, 2010 in Design | 1 Comment

A short walk through the streets of milan in these days of the Salone del Mobile 2010 can be overwhelmingly exciting, as the word DESIGN is literally everywhere and I find myself salivating at shop windows turned gallery spaces. Here’s some photos of some design in the windows of Milan that just happen to be objects by designers who have contributed to illywords in the past!

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Fear of not succeeding

by Ariella Risch | Mar 30, 2010 in Conviviality, Design | Leave A Comment

The countdown has started towards issue #28… “che emozione!”

Cut,  add, translate, check,  cut again… that doesn’t work… now it is ok!

We lack a cover but Pietro (Corraini) is finalizing it and will be good for sure. The feather is growing and at the same time grows the fear of not suceeding.

This is the most critical phase when we are close to the end (”vicini alla fine”). We are not sure that we’ll finish on time. We have to deliver the type layout by today and we are working hard… we have been working all week end, until late Sunday night.

Why are we in a hurry? because we hope to be present this issue at the Satellite Pavillon of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, next April 14th! The printed magazine will be presented alongside the three-dimensional projects made by Domus Academy students that animate it. This is a first. Because every issue of illywords is a new, different project; this time relationships, convivial exchange, are at its heart.

Here’s a little preview just for our blog readers, written by Angela Vettese (member of the editorial team):

Often we use the words “I could eat you” as an expression of love for a child or lover. Some have translated this desire into a film or work of art – take Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint for example – a video set on a Japanese whaling ship where the two performers wash and scent themselves, preparing spiritually for an encounter in which they embrace in a fatal bite: one kiss after another, using two large knives they seek to devour and swallow each other…

“Speriamo di farcela!” – we hope to make it!!

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Sorpresa!

by Ariella Risch | Mar 10, 2010 in Design, Video | 1 Comment

Mi sarebbe piaciuto produrre un numero di illywords intitolato “LA SORPRESA!”. Possiamo però riflettere e scambiare opinioni sul tema attraverso il web. Chissà che non si riesca un domani a realizzarlo fisicamente

Oggi c’è una spasmodica voglia di sorprendere il pubblico, attraverso la pubblicità, attraverso le azioni e le relazioni: non si fa, si stra-fa. Dal mio punto di vista vorrei arrivare a dire che rimanere con i piedi per terra lavorando sui contenuti e sull’analisi del domani in modo professionale  si ottiene credibilità e riconoscibilità . Ovviamente è un mio bisogno e il tema va affrontato sotto più punti di vista.

In realtà quanto dura la sorpresa? E perché ne abbiamo bisogno?

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Richard Wilde @SVA: how to be an inspirational professor

by Alexandra M. Korey | Mar 03, 2010 in Design, Video | Leave A Comment

A video collaboration between director Nicolas Heller and producer Steven Heller (who contributed to Illywords #21) that honours Richard Wilde’s 40th year as chairman of graphic design and advertising at SVA. Wilde inspired many students and, in this interview, reveals a few tricks as to how.

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Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy

by Ariella Risch | Feb 05, 2010 in Conviviality, Design ... | Leave A Comment

We’re off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan!

The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality… whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course… When we eat, preferably over some good food…

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Matteo in via Farini

by Ariella Risch | Jan 15, 2010 in Art, Design ... | Leave A Comment

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Gente che non se la tira*

by Ariella Risch | Dec 14, 2009 in Design, Exhibitions | Leave A Comment

Triennale di Milano, presentazione libro CAMPARISODA.

L’aperitivo dell’arte veloce Futurista, Corraini Edizioni.

Steven Guarnaccia (illywords#14, Parsons school  N.Y ) tra il designer Matteo Ragni e Alessandro Mendini stimola la battuta di Beppe Finessi :” Matteo, come diciamo a Milano, e’ uno che non se la tira”!
Ma e’ proprio vero che esiste una nuova generazione di architetti e designer che “non se la tirano”?

* in italian means people at hand, not snobby, not arrogant.
The question is:  are this charachteristics present in categories such as designer&architects?

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