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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...Read more
Zegna, the new “polo” of fashion
Magazine -> #12 Waiting for ChinaWith a population of one billion three hundred million inhabitants, a gross domestic product that's continually risen over recent years, and demand growing at an annual rate of nine per cent, it is no wonder that China has drawn the attention of large and small entrepreneurs and business persons from all over the world. Judging from the enthusiasti...
continue..…Artistic movement
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge“Fare forth” is the overwhelming imperative of our times. Each according to her/his life style - on a white sofa fitted with wheels, in a shabby dinghy, or playfully in a portable pool like those invented by Andrea Zittel for personalised caravans in the nineties. We’re nomads, be it for pleasure or out of necessity. It’s a paradox, but ...
continue..The Automatic “refresh” button
-> The Automatic “refresh” buttonIssue #14’s theme was “refresh”. As in, the green button with two arrows at the top of Internet Explorer that is going extinct thanks to auto-updating streams. In 2005, to discuss the question of being “always on” was highly perceptive; it was pre iphone and before we could truly speak of being “always connected”. I read through the...
continue..Digital update
Magazine -> #14 RefreshHow is Digit updating the web? What do you think about new developments in the Internet? Stuart Jackson: One way we update the web is not to increase its complexity, but to simplify and demystify it. Our company ethos is “simple human interaction” which might seem strange - the idea that simplicity has become a fundamental element of a comp...
continue..University of studies of Rome “LA SAPIENZA”
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologySince its inception ten years ago, the highly articulated and academically teeming course on industrial design of La Sapienza University in Rome has come to play an important role on the national scene under the direction of its president, Professor Tonino Paris, and with its highly renowned masters and research doctorates is attracting increasing ...
continue..Cultivating the spirit
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindCulture is a word that comes from the farming world, and originally just meant “cultivation”. However, the oldest Indo-European root means “take action, get going, live”. It was only during the 17th century that the Italian word “cultura” began, perhaps thanks to the influence of religious worship, to mean the world of arts, letters and...
continue..Fine Arts Academy of Bologna
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeThe Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy. Founded in 1706 to promote the arts and handicrafts in Emilia Romagna, in 1711 it was moved to the fifteenth-century convent of Sant’Ignazio, in the heart of the university district (Bologna has the world’s oldest recorded university) and was later exten...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #6 OrientationThe best way to predict the future? Plan for it, give it form, mould it around one’s dreams. Work at it, build it up bit-by-bit, clearly setting down the goals to be achieved, the route to be followed, the actions to be taken. Keep one’s gaze fixed on the objectives, objectives that should be outlined from the start and whose contours come into...
continue..Haim Steinbach
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsWE MET HAIM STEINBACK IN PARIS AT THE PALAIS DE TOKIO, DURING THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE TENTH ILLY COLLECTION PRODUCTION ANNIVERSARY. THROUGH THIS INTERVIEW, FAMOUS ART CRITIC ANGELA VETTESE HELPS US TO BECOME MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE ARTIST AND THE MAN. It is with slight consternation that one enters Haim Steinbach's studio. On the identical baby ...
continue..Experimentation, creation, art
Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboardsExperimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life. The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...
continue..ISIA – Higher Institute for Artistic Industries – Urbino
Magazine -> #27 The Culture of ListeningISIA – Higher Institute for Artistic Industries – is a state school teaching graphic design at graduate level and it is part of the Dipartimento di Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale (department for higher music and art training) run by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research. The ISIA premises are in the Santa Chiara ...
continue..Week-end in family
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeIn front a cup of coffee. For a company, the past is never just the past. It is an opportunity for growth, driving it to explore new directions. Ducati, one of the most famous motorbike manufacturers in the world, has opened a museum at its premises in Borgo Panigale (BO), to utilise its own “home made” resources. Motorbikes, engines, photog...
continue..Sappi: paper milling the natural way
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyEstablished in South Africa seventy years ago, the Corporation currently employs 17,000 workers and operates out of countries in all five continents, turning out five million tons of paper a year. Thanks to these figures, Sappi [ www.sappi.com ] is the number one paper-milling company in the world. Its claim to leadership, though, has not blinded i...
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