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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
School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThe School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication is a part of the University of the Arts, London, Europe’s largest university for art, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. It is a collegiate university comprising the six London Art Colleges; Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
continue..Let time run its course
Magazine -> #6 OrientationLa Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel is where the house of Girare-Perregaux has been making timepieces since 1791. Master watchmakers capable of fully designing, developing, tooling and assembling each and every cog and wheel, spring and gear right through to the finished, working product are few and far between: Girard-Perregaux is ...
continue..Man and his space. Contexts of life
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionArtemide 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...
continue..Freed passion
Magazine -> #4 PassionA quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history. Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet. Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
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..Milan, Thursday 10:00 a.m.
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsMilan, the world capital of fashion and design. This link between fashion and design seems to merge the two disciplines, blending their environments and dynamics. There is one person, however, who wants to keep them well separated, critiquing his own circle of designers: Enzo Mari. First and foremost an artist, and then a designer at international ...
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..Deeper rivers flow more silently
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationWHAT 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...
continue..Out of the mould
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorIn your experience, how have errors affected your professional practice and what’s your attitude towards making mistakes? Errors can critically affect the outcome of any work, but they’re also an opportunity for reviewing consolidated practices and routine ways of doing things. As such, they can be very liberating, obliging us to make new deci...
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..I look, I know, maybe I feel
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIt’s not true that emotions are simply there for the taking. Shock may well be a common feeling. So may disgust. A man baked in an oven out of revenge, laid out on a huge dish, well done and crispy, with a garnish of colourful vegetables, as seen at the end of one of Peter Greenaway’s movies. Something classical, such as ornamental wallpa...
continue..Experience
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationI remember the first designs we used to prepare at Central Saint Martins College, when the briefs (author's note: design instructions) consisted of threefour words randomly picked by our tutors. We would start working in small groups, not knowing each other: at that stage it was impossible to have any prejudices or dislikes. For the same reason, th...
continue..Taking the right turn
Magazine -> #17 SerendipitySerendipity isn’t yet a very familiar concept in the cultural sphere, is it? It mightn’t be, but what it refers to is very relevant to design and innovation in any sphere of activity, not only that of culture. How do you go about trying to be innovative? And can serendipity help? The best way to go about it is to look elsewhere. The beaten t...
continue..An aesthetic emotion
Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well madeAn open space under the sky of Cupertino in California. Software programmers, engineers and industrial designers brainstorming away in a closed room. A clear mission, an important challenge, that of turning an intuition into the reality of a simple and easily useable object. That’s how Apple products are born. It would be hard to consider them...
continue..Self-portraits, almost
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitIn front of a coup of coffee “When I saw myself, I wasn’t there”, hissed the poets (funambulists) of the art, our art, when age-old conventional forms were suddenly torn asunder by concepts. That was indeed the time when art practices were centred on the conceptual (by way of example see a square metre of felt under the entry “Vincenzo A...
continue..Self-portrait and Haptic Interface Design Workshop
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitSince I started working on Haptic Interface Design and especially on the field research into the haptic quality hidden in various textures, my digital camera has been working exactly as my third eye: it automatically focuses on and catch what I do not see exactly with my two naked eyes but I feel by touching, hearing, smelling or by instinct. Ac...
continue..Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitHistory of Estonian Academy of Arts goes back to 1914, founded as Tallinn Industrial Art School. After Estonia’s re-independence from USSR, in 1994 Estonia became European Union member state, and in 1996 the institute was renamed as Estonian Academy of Arts and certified as a sole public-low Art University in Estonia. Our institute is member of ...
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