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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
SVA design students spend two weeks in Italy
-> SVA design students spend two weeks in ItalyWho wouldn't want to spend two weeks in Italy? The students of the Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice of the SVA (School of Visual Art) in New York spent May 20 to June 5th in Venice, to be followed by this week (June 6-12) in Rome. You can follow them through the blog and photos they're posting each day on the official site; s...
continue..Professione? Blogger
-> Professione? BloggerCome ospite del Blog Café a Squisito, ho avuto l'opportunita di incontrare dei importanti Blogger. Luigi di PorzioniCremona, Agostinelli, Massimo Bernardi di Dissapore... sono tutti esperti maratoneti della cronaca minuto per minuto. L'evento è stato diretto magistralmente da Luigi Cremona e Lorenza Vitali (Witaly). Amorevoli con tutti i...
continue..Fear of not succeeding
-> Fear of not succeedingThe countdown has started towards issue #28... "che emozione!" Cut, add, translate, check, cut again... that doesn’t work… now it is ok! We lack a cover but Pietro (Corraini) is finalizing it and will be good for sure. The feather is growing and at the same time grows the fear of not suceeding. This is the most critical phase w...
continue..4am: a creative hour?
-> 4am: a creative hour?4am. The middle of the night. Or of the morning, depending how you look at it. The darkest hour, the hour most people are likely to be asleep (unless they are insomiacs or architects, in which case they are up working). 4am is the theme assigned for the 2009 “Scritture giovani”, a young writers’ prize supported by illy and a project of...
continue..Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy
-> Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus AcademyWe're off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan! The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality... whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course... When we eat, preferably over some good food… The ...
continue..Kabakov’s Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)
-> 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...
continue..Research between man and business
Magazine -> #4 PassionVega, the science and technology park, provides potential national and international investors in Venice with the necessary support, fostering collaboration between economic operators and encouraging innovative firms to set up their main offices in the historic center of Venice and in the nearby mainland. Is research addressed to people or busin...
continue..The luxury of transparency
Magazine -> #4 PassionVenini, symbol of creativity and excellence in the Italian glass-making sector, is a cosmopolitan firm, one that is consistent with traditions and innovation. Contrasting features are skilfully blended to continue manufacturing the colourful dreams that make Venini an internationally-renowned trademark. Fire, sand, hands - are these shapes and ...
continue..Beautiful homes for the majority
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsLUCEPLAN designs, manufactures and markets lighting appliances for residences, offices, community, government and agency buildings, indoor and outdoor environments. Luceplan's adventure was born from the design-oriented spirit of three young architects, among whom is Riccardo Sarfatti, who in 1978 decided to pursue the goal of "beautiful homes for...
continue..Palais de Tokyo
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesPalais de Tokyo, a place for contemporary creativity, was founded following the will to change the traditional institutional "white cube" into a living place. Making art and life, the eternal adagio, actually meet. Making a place for contemporary creation become also a laboratory for emerging cultures, a place for resources and exchanges between ar...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeWhen 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...
continue..Cogito ergo sum
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeCogito ergo sum, it reads on what is probably the most famous work by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. In actual fact, it is not a painting but a frame containing a piece of knitting like Grandma used to do. The insight of Descartes meets feminine handiwork, through a subtly sophisticated critique of Cartesian dualism, which will not leave us alone...
continue..Thank goodness for complexity!
Magazine -> #7 ChaosFrancesco Di Lauro talks with Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...
continue..Teachings
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityWhat does “serendipity” mean to you? It’s connected with Charles Sanders Peirce’s idea of what constitutes an invention. He introduces the concept of “abduction”. Two Peircian scholars, Bonfantini and Proni, have identified three types of abduction which I feel are closely related to the concept of “serendipity”. The first type ...
continue..Maths: an emotional experience
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyOdifreddi, you’re known to be a scientist with a strong penchant for art and music. Is there any room for intuition in the scientific profession? In any field it takes time for intellectual capacities to grow and develop fully. I’d say it’s the usual ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration, but in science that ten percent is...
continue..A lot to learn
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyAfter 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...
continue..The fashion of doing well
Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well madeSince 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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