Posts Tagged ‘apple’

Art T-Eco

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

Rather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along. Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...

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Everywhen

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

I’m a believer in the “I” words. Ideas, Intuition, Invention, Inspiration, innovation… and now… Innovage. Add vintage to innovation and you’ll be time traveling, speeding back to the future. This implosion of past, present and future is what the Aboriginal people of Australia called “the Everywhen.” It was, and is, timeless time. Th...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

As I see it, there are at least three aspects making for any brand’s success, and namely its relevance, appeal, and standing. Relevance typically falls within the domain of rationality. It essentially depends on the actual utility of the brand’s product or service, but also on the peculiarities that enhance its strictly performance-related char...

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An aesthetic emotion

Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well made

An open space under the sky of Cupertino in California. Software programmers, engineers and industrial designers brainstorming away in a closed room. A clear mission, an important challenge, that of turning an intuition into the reality of a simple and easily useable object. That’s how Apple products are born. It would be hard to consider them...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

Headline & Editorial

Headline & Editorial

Last Issue: #31 The Journey

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...
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People

People

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,...
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Schools

On the pages of illywords, the works of writers, artists and established professionals are the inspiration for the ideas and images of emerging artists, photographers and...
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