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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
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We never thought about a taste as something that could come in “3D”. It was exciting to listen to the explanation of this master of mixology – London based Tony Conigliaro – illustrating how flavours can cooperate instead of competing.
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Cool Hunting Capsule Video: Tony Conigliaro from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.
The following video is in Italian, so here is a partial transcript in English.
There’s a group of international planners or designers who are working on a new kind of design and industrial production that wishes to arrive at project results that go beyond the simple chair, cup, or tray, which are perfectly useful in our lives but can possibly be substituted by a new type of product. And certainly in these models, technology and the ecological aspect is essential.
There are people working precisely on this. There is a French designer, Leneur, who is working on improving the quality of interior air. I think it’s a matter of knowledge and sensibility [to make these things] rather than doing things in a gratuitous way. There are plenty of exhibits in which ecology has been really just a pretext; instead it is a real problem and needs to be properly addressed.
There is a studio of young people who made a vase out of bees wax – that is, the bees themselves are set up in such a way as to make it over x number of weeks. An object like this, do we consider it emblematic of a new technology, or of new ecology? Maybe both! It’s nature, stronger than us, but it’s also been used in the service of design just recently.
Interview by Marco Minuz. Transcription by Alexandra Korey.
I have always wondered how, precisely recycle art, arte povera, or found-object work was intended to save the world. Or if it is intended to do so. Considering how much we consume, and how much garbage we throw out, artists can surely not use it all. I asked Rodolfo Lacquaniti about his use of found materials when I visited him at his art park, the “Giardino Viaggio di Ritorno” in Maremma this summer; this video is his answer.
For illywords #29, Marco Minuz interviewed curator Luca Massimo Barbero about colour. The video below is in Italian.
What’s more important, colour or light? Peter Lorenz contributed to the current issue on colour with an interview in which he talked about, amongst other things, colour in architecture. This video is from that conversation with Marco Minuz.
Maida writes that Blaise Aguera y Arcas “is a modern day Da Vinci of digital imaging that has proven that anything is possible”. If he’s impressed, shouldn’t we be too? Click “more” to see the video of Aguera y Arcas’s latest project for Bing presented at TED in Feburary 2010.
freeDimensional (fD) is an international network that advances social justice by hosting activists in art spaces and using cultural resources to strengthen their work.
illywords shares their global support of young artists.
Here is a video that introduces fD… (more…)
Un’intervista in esclusiva a Nanni Strada che ci spiega perchè la qualità ancora oggi puo stupirci; come lo stupore è un sentimento da bambini.
The Cadavre Exquis or “Exquisite Corpse” was a game or pastime played by surrealist artists to create fantastic and unpredictable narrations. This is a Cadavre Exquis video made by Domus Academy students from the Interaction Design class, on the theme of conviviality.
In questo video sulla sorpresa abbiamo un’intervista esclusiva a Gae Aulenti, architetto e designer di fama mondiale.
As you know, the next issue of illywords takes up the theme of conversation and relationships around the table, or conviviality, and the students of Domus Academy in Milan are currently finishing up their projects that will be the visual material for the magazine.
We asked students to answer this question: “What is the greatest influence on a convivial moment?”. Watch their answers below
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?
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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