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...Read more
2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!
-> 2011: let´s celebrate the 10th anniversary of illywords!2011 is a milestone for illywords. This year we are having the tenth anniversary of the magazine and we would like to warmly celebrate it on our illywords blog which is young but nevertheless able to reach a wide group of friends. To keep track of some illywords’ thoughts of the past ten years, we came up with the idea of developing in our blog ...
continue..Paris and art
-> Paris and artParis pétillante! Paris is a sparkling city as far as contemporary art is concerned these days. Besides, the very cold weather pushes people to enjoy the warmth of the museums. The longest queues in town can be found outside the Musee d'Art Moderne that hosts an amazing retrospective of Basquiat, the talented Puerto Rican/Haitian/American supersta...
continue..Culture as a vision
Magazine -> #29 What's your colour?Any person, group of people, city, country, or company is sometimes identified with a colour; tell us a colour: red, yellow, green, blue…. If I should try to describe illy I’d say red… probably for the red logo, a symbol of passion and love that has a strong goal. Berlin would be described as green city, as the hope of a united country,...
continue..Colour. A question of life
Magazine -> #29 What's your colour?What does colour mean to you? For me, colour is a kind of expression of life. Although I always wear black and wear the same colour make-up, I am particularly interested in strong, powerful colours. I don’t particularly like soft shades. I see colour as a life thing, especially in relation to very strong, bright colours. As far as black is con...
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..Quando il cibo diventa cultura
-> Quando il cibo diventa culturaDi ritorno da San Patrignano (Rimini) dove ieri si è chiuso Squisito, posso dire che se illywords ha trattato il tema Conviviliaty non è un caso perchè il cibo è cultura. Ho visto passione in chi spiegava ai visitatori il proprio prodotto, ho seguito i corsi di the, cioccolato, caffè, che da secoli stanno accompagnando la storia dell'uomo e ...
continue..Bello e Buono…anzi SQUISITO!
-> Bello e Buono...anzi SQUISITO!Domani sarò a San Patrignano al mio primo Squisito, la grande manifestazione sul mondo del cibo organizzata ogni anno dai 1500 ragazzi della communità di San Patrignano (Rimini) e inaugurata oggi, Venerdi 30 Aprile. L'emozione è grande perchè nello spazio Blog Cafè si potrà parlare anche di illywords e dell'ultimo numero #28 Conviviality. E...
continue..illywords at Bocconi University
-> illywords at Bocconi UniversityMilan, 2.30 p.m., Bocconi University: Communication and Events Management course. I have just come out of the presentation that Carlo Bach, art director of illywords, and I were here to give. We presented the last issue, "Conviviality". There were more than 30 students inside and their coordinator, Lia Zarantonello. I do not know if we have been...
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..Refresh America
Magazine -> #14 RefreshThe United States has been called the land of opportunity, the place where life can begin anew. Today America is a destination for young people from all over the world who want to further their studies. The best American Universities attract talent, allow direct contact with research and support student innovation. We met one of these talents, Enri...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindI met the suggestion that I write something up on the topic of “food for the mind” with enthusiasm. Not only do I find it stimulating, but it’s also very topical. Our physiological needs, as Maslow calls them, including self-security, a sense of communal belonging and esteem, have been fairly much appeased in the West; we’ve peaked his famo...
continue..Cultural interlude with Aldo Cibic
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindThe 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, directed by architect and town planner Richard Burdett*, focuses on the theme of Cities: migration, growth, mobility and sustainable development. As part of the exhibition at the Corderie dell’Arsenale, architect Aldo Cibic will be interpreting the concept of density. Here, il...
continue..The courage to taste
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindCan you give us your definition of “culture”? Culture includes all the arts, dance, music, songs, language etc. It is the stew in which we are pickled. This, marinated over time, gives each locale its different flavour. Culture is what shapes ones personality and ones interaction with the world. What part had culture in your formation? Si...
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..The strange alchemy
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...
continue..Pure beauty
Magazine -> #25 InnovageBefore being a label, Pucci is first and foremost the name of a family, and what a family! We’re talking about history – almost a thousand years of it – and about a cutting-edge business enterprise based in the family’s historical mansion. Emilio Pucci’s inspired and visionary drawings are simply spellbinding, as acknowledged worldwide. N...
continue..Lone photographer
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeIn his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised. Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
continue..The mobility of the emotions
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIn front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...
continue..Growing amazement
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFrom weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...
continue..Labour ecology
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyWhat matters is being as light as a swallow, not as a feather. This statement, quoted from Paul Valery, is Domenico De Masi's visiting card, and it's the first thing browsers to his site [www.domenicodemasi.it] come across. The mental flexibility and agility suggested by these words are indeed a hallmark of the man. Domenico De Masi teaches la...
continue..Mittel&europa
Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectPredrag Matvejevic' 's [http://www.giardini.sm/matvejevic] personal history, his critical spirit, his intellectual career, and his commitment to defending civil rights and liberties have qualified him as one of the most intense and courageous speakers that may currently be listened to, and his words as genuine food for thought. It's a voice that ta...
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