Posts Tagged ‘designer’

The essential Martí

Magazine -> #14 Refresh

Let’s take irony: a linguistic picklock, a means for coping and coming to grips with an ever changing world, a way of putting oneself on the board. Irony hasn’t much currency lately, a circumstance that often makes for cultural doldrums. How does irony fit into your works? Well, I take it as a personal commitment to ensure that all my works ...

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Frustration = Inspiration

Magazine -> #17 Serendipity

For me design is not just about how something looks, but how it works. I don’t see a difference between a designer and an engineer, and I don’t want to see a difference. A designer should be both. My route into design was an unconventional one; I came from a background of academics and clergy and had never considered a career in engineering....

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The twenty senses

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

Design starts with sensation. The senses, both visceral and intuitive, play a major role in the process of making a designed environment. Whether the result is order or chaos, the designer must think and feel using every part of the mind and body. Graphic design is not about following templates or formats (though so much of it is), rather it’s mo...

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Pure beauty

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

Before 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...

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Self-portraits, almost

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

In 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...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

Headline & Editorial

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...
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People

People

For several years, the magazine has published dialogues, opinions and points of view on themes dear to a company living in the contemporary world.  Topics have covered space, courage, dreams,...
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Schools

Schools

On the pages of illywords, the works of writers, artists and established professionals are the inspiration for the ideas and images of emerging artists, photographers and...
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illywords is distributed at the most important cultural events of design and art supported by illy, and it is also available at leading bookshops the world over.
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