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Kabakov's Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)
We suggest this exhibition:
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | The Blue Carpet
MACRO | Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma
Via Reggio Emilia 54 | Roma | Italy
preview: Friday, January 22, 2010 – h. 7 pm
Open from January 23 – April 5, 2010
www.macro.roma.museum
Illywords and Galleria Continua worked together in the past -- I met up with Da...
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Jan 20, 2010 | Categories: Art, Exhibitions | Tags: art, artist, company, creativity, past, places | 1 Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
Over the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: antonio damasio, aristotle, beautiful, business, cash, coffee, company, consumers, developing, emotion, excellence, growth, heart, illy, intellectual | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
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...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, attention, company, consumer, deployment, enviromental, evolution, function, happiness, illy, improved, improvement, increasing, innovate, japan | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Artemide and Moroso, two companies confirming the contemporary relation between man, design and habitat.
Why are consumers attracted by your products, what do they base their purchasing choice on?
Carlotta de Bevilacqua Gismondi: Light today is conceived as something that is fundamental to improve and personalise environmental qualities in ever...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aesthetic, armchair, artemide, biennale, brand, catalogue, company, consumers, decorator, design, expertise, fjord, habitat, habits, heart | Leave A Comment »
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#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
Swarovski, 14,000 employees, revenue 1.67 billion euro, but also 800 events organised every year in Italy alone. Not only an economic organism, but also a conveyor of culture.
How does it feel today to be defined as a multinational company? Proud or flattered?
Uneasy. In any case, it’s a word that has been outdated by what is now called globa...
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Dec 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: awareness, beauty, company, cost, cost of life, countries, dna, economic, effort, emotions, environmental, ethic, events, exhibitions, expectations | Leave A Comment »
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#3 Weaving relations
The relation between company and consumer in the western world has changed enormously in recent times, giving rise to changes in corporate missions themselves. Today, product performance and quality are taken for granted and, therefore, they are no longer the only reason why a given product is purchased. Moreover, having already satisfied their pri...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: advertising, brand, business, choices, clients, collaborators, community, company, consumer, corporate, financers, mission, nature, needs, performances | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
Cappellini is almost always the main actor to every major design "event". The latest edition of the Furniture Exhibition in Milan, but mostly the "Side Events to the Exhibition", confirmed how important "Creating Opportunities" is for the Cappellini company and its goals.
There are two reasons, in particular, why "Creating Opportunities" is fundam...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, author, civil, communication, companies, company, creating, cultural, design, event, exhibition, furniture, giulio cappellini, milan, opportunities | Leave A Comment »
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#1 Timetables and scoreboards
TREVISO, A FORMER FOUNDRY, REFURBISHED.
We are standing on a loft from which we can see a group of young people at work and only a few metres away, others are playing pool, having a break from the project.
E-TREE, ALSO CALLED THE "NOSLEEPING COMPANY" IS KNOWN MORE FOR ITS EXPERIMENTS WITH WORKING ENVIRONMENT DESIGNING THAN FOR ITS PRODUCTS. WHA...
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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adoptions, always on, bar, codes of conduct, company, creativity, design, e tree, ethical, experiment, firms, foundry, gratification, gym, habits | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
When it comes to the business world, I am absolutely convinced that the kind of creativity that leads to real innovation can only develop “in house” – in other words the place where all the input from day-to-day relations with clients and products is received and digested. To paraphrase the Chinese saying ”Listen and forget, see and remembe...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: beans, brand, business, chinese, clients, coffee, company, creativity, environment, espresso, galleria illy, ideas, illy art collection, illycaffe, innovation | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
In 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...
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Dec 04, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bikes, borgo panigale, communication, company, designs, ducati, engine, experiences, federico minoli, heritage, history, home made, innovations, italian, livio lodi | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
During these times of reflection and change caused by the global crisis we are all experiencing, I find the topic of listening to be extremely relevant. My approach is to see what can be learned from it, starting with the basic theories of modern management. I think this is essential, if we are to deal with the current economic situation.
For mana...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ability, approval, communicating, company, crisis, customers, economic situation, essential, finance, global, identify, interpret, lifestyles, listen, listening | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Sometimes I am asked to help other people to improve their listening skills. My profession exposes me to the risk of thinking of listening mainly as a subjective ability, something that can be trained, partly linked to personal predisposition.
But when I actually listen, and when listening becomes a tool necessary for a job in which you approach...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: approach, circumstances, claudio ondoli, cohesion, colourful, companion, company, fascinating, geography, history, intention, job, knowledge, landscapes, life | Leave A Comment »
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#15 Techno-ecology
There are certain criteria involved in buying a car nowadays; some of these we could define as “mathematical”, such as price or performance, easily comparable between makes and models. There are also more subjective factors, that depend on our personal tastes, such as the shape, or the combination of lines and colours that define a car’s styl...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bavarian, bmw, car, carbon dioxide, cars, clean, colours, company, customers, dingolfing, dow jones, efficiency, environmental, flexibility, german | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
Business and ethics: we discuss the issue with Sebastiano Maffettone, author of Etica Pubblica (Public Ethics) (Il Saggiatore, 2001), chief editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues), lecturer of Political Philosophy and Social Ethics [ http://www.luiss.it ] and visiting professor at Harvard [ http://www.ha...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: behaviour, business, company, consumers, consumption, corporation, dogood gimmickery, eco system, efficiency, enterprise, ethic, ethics, fair trade, human beings, idea | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
After graduating in architecture from Turin Polytechnic, in 1947 Ettore Sottsass jr. (Innsbruck, 1917) began working in Milan, where he opened his first design studio. Son of an architect and an architect himself, from the start he backed up his formal education and training with practical experiences in the visual arts field, trying out his ar...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ambitious, bach, child, company, creative act, creativity, curage, curiosity, despair, development, einstein, emotions, ettore sottsass, everyday requirements, feelings | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
“What the hell is it?”. American historian and writer Paul Collins’ literary travels, published in Italy by Adelphi, usually start from this question, which struck him when he came across some oddity found in an old book. A cultured, meticulous curiosity rooted in the need to understand what has been buried in and by history. To mark a passio...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aberration, abilities, autism, autistic people, beta testing, book, characters, company, curiosity, exploration, family, feelings, genetic and societal forces, history, humanity | Leave A Comment »
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#16 Beautiful and well made
Since 1951, when it was established by Achille Maramotti, the House has practically accompanied the unfolding of women’s fashion over the years, acclaimed from the start for the refined style of its apparel and the quality of its textiles. The Group is now present on the market with thirty lines, different in terms of looks and consumer target. T...
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Nov 19, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 1951, achille maramotti, aesthetic pleasure, anne maria beretta, company, creativity, designers, emmanuelle kahn, fashion, giulia maramotti foundation, jean charles de castelbajac, karl lagerfeld, kingston college, laura lusuardi, max mara | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
The House of illycaffé is heading for its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. When approaching these milestones the need to stop and ponder, to do a bit of stock-taking, to snap a self-timer shot of corporate performance and achievements thus far, is felt more than ever. The very title of one of the major events to celebrate, with all our collabo...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, anniversary, brand, coffee, company, consumers, corporate, cosmopolitan, customers, development, economic, enviromental, future, illycaffe, individual | Leave A Comment »
