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Highway robbery

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

Time and rhythm are an integral part of modern life and they can be experienced either as incentives to improve or as reasons for dissatisfaction. Today, our attention is turned to the well being of our social system: there is clear evidence of this in science, technology and culture, but the objective is not always attained in a harmonised and hom...

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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: andrea illy, attention, companies, confidence, crisis, culture, dissatisfaction, dynamics, future, greed, homogeneous, information, knowledge, life, mankind | Leave A Comment »

Deeper rivers flow more silently

Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovation

WHAT IS "DESIGN TIME"? My "design time" has changed a lot over the years. When I was young, in Japan, I attended a rationalist school. Designs were dealt with in a very rigorous manner and preceded by a host of preliminary studies to prove that they were logical and functional. When I moved to Italy in 1939, I discovered a more informal and free...

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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, client, confidence, design, designs, experience, expressions, foreigner, idea, italy, japan, modernism, opinions, quality, requirements | Leave A Comment »

Creative battles

Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovation

In Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel." The spirit of creative b...

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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: act, apocalypse now, artists, battles, buckminster fuller, challenge, colonel, commander, confidence, coppola, creative, designers, dreaming, dreamland, enrich | Leave A Comment »