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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
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..Art Fairs? Impressive
-> Art Fairs? ImpressiveI have just arrived at the Arco Art Fair in Madrid. Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter a never-seen-before world. An art fair is more than a solo exposition or one artist's performance. It is a "cosmo" around which several artists, galleries, interests, hopes and emotions frantically revolve. ...
continue..A day at the races
-> A day at the racesIn 1986 Stephen Ceci and Jeffrey Liker, two American psychologists, published a study on expert racetrack handicappers. Success predicting odds at the racetrack is an ability comparable with that of financial brokers since that expert handicappers use complex models involving multiple interactions effects. Simple models fail to account for the comp...
continue..Working for a sustainable society
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyThe sorry state in which our planet has come to find itself and the far from comforting forecasts as to energy source availability and air, water and soil pollution have risen awareness as to the need to put a stop to the ongoing use and abuse of natural resources. In the late eighties a new concept, sustainable development, used for the first t...
continue..The Open Book – some reflections on the future
-> The Open Book - some reflections on the futureThe beginning of the year is an open book upon which we know that we can write any good resolves without really having to follow through. The change affects all areas: partner, home, work, attitude, diet. And this is what I feel when I look at coming year, and I think about next issues of illywords, the connected contents or the schools that w...
continue..Rough Guide to the future
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThere are travel guides for almost any corner of the planet. None of these can tell us though what the world will be like tomorrow, or at least not until next year. That’s when Rough Guide to the Future by the British science writer Jon Turney will be available in bookstores. What drove you to write such a book? There’s not much fiction aro...
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..The opinion
Magazine -> #6 OrientationThe best way to predict the future? Plan for it, give it form, mould it around one’s dreams. Work at it, build it up bit-by-bit, clearly setting down the goals to be achieved, the route to be followed, the actions to be taken. Keep one’s gaze fixed on the objectives, objectives that should be outlined from the start and whose contours come into...
continue..Towards eternity
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFirst of all, is there a difference between the concept of excitement and surprise? Put simply, a surprise is something that happens just once and is unlikely to happen again. Excitement, on the other hand, is something more complex, it might crop up again, and in theory it could last a lifetime. Surprise also has a powerful physical aspect – it...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #25 InnovageInnovage may be one of the latest buzzwords, but the concept it refers to, and which I deem to be very important, has a far longer legacy. Take for instance the worldwide success of “Made in Italy” brands, or rather of the Italian houses behind these much coveted brands. Their not-so-secret secret lies in their ability to combine and blend the ...
continue..Sappi: paper milling the natural way
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyEstablished in South Africa seventy years ago, the Corporation currently employs 17,000 workers and operates out of countries in all five continents, turning out five million tons of paper a year. Thanks to these figures, Sappi [ www.sappi.com ] is the number one paper-milling company in the world. Its claim to leadership, though, has not blinded i...
continue..A starspangled life
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeMargherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo. Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever. An astrophysicist of internat...
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..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 opinion
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitThe House of illycaffé is heading for its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. When approaching these milestones the need to stop and ponder, to do a bit of stock-taking, to snap a self-timer shot of corporate performance and achievements thus far, is felt more than ever. The very title of one of the major events to celebrate, with all our collabo...
continue..Taking time to look
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitWhat do you think of self-portraiture in the self-timer mode in photography? Well, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear a picture’s been shot that way is “vanity”; anyone having recourse to such a technique is out to show himself at his appealing best. Mind you, that’s understandable because we all implicitly reject the image we ...
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