Posts Tagged ‘india’

NIFT- National Institute of Fashion Technology

Magazine -> #8 Place, not place

New Delhi - India Project Place, not Place National Institute of Fashion Technology is a unique institution with multifaceted, multidimensional capabilities, design excellence and time tested educational culture. In creating awareness and setting standards for fashion education, NIFT has done significant and pioneering service. It has taken mo...

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…Artistic movement

Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge

“Fare forth” is the overwhelming imperative of our times. Each according to her/his life style - on a white sofa fitted with wheels, in a shabby dinghy, or playfully in a portable pool like those invented by Andrea Zittel for personalised caravans in the nineties. We’re nomads, be it for pleasure or out of necessity. It’s a paradox, but ...

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India: a journey through coffee-lands

Magazine -> #8 Place, not place

On the one hand a family of entrepreneurs that believes in sustainable development, and a man who has given his art over to the same idea on the other. The family goes by the name of Illy and the man by that of Sebastião Salgado. Salgado’s views were recorded by Anna Illy Belci on 18 December 2003 on site in the Karnatak district. The lands ...

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The courage to taste

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

Can 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...

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The choice of time

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

After thirty years spent in Asia as correspondent for Der Spiegel and collaborator for Italian newspapers, Tiziano Terzani has definitely not lost one bit of the intense warmth and the impetus of his homeland, Tuscany. These characteristics however, are now mingled with the peaceful and ascetic wisdom that has been transferred onto him by the cult...

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A lot to learn

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

After 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...

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The magic of everyday

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

Your short stories frame the fascinating even if painful contrast between tradition and modernity. Do you recognise yourself in this contrast? India is a very old culture, and the eternal continuum between tradition, the past, and the present is something that is present in all Indians. There is no clear defining line that separates the two; India...

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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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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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