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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
Sir Ken Robinson at TED about innovation in education
-> Sir Ken Robinson at TED about innovation in educationTo close the chapter of the month entitled „Experimentation & Innovation“, we wish to highlight the amusing and fascinating talk by Professor Ken Robinson at TED on the importance and urgency of a fundamental innovation in education. As he points out this is the only possible way to foster human creativity and free it from the tyranny o...
continue..Form meets substance: the green innovation in fashion
-> Form meets substance: the green innovation in fashionIn today´s moment of crisis and economical downturn, as the media call it today, there's a sector that knows no decline: sustainable fashion. Such a moment of widespread concern seems actually to be the perfect boost supported by unprecedented approval. Being sustainable today is cool! This is the clear impression that I got strolling around th...
continue..“Rehearsing”: an overview of the Biennale in Shanghai
-> "Rehearsing": an overview of the Biennale in ShanghaiEver since in 2000 the Biennale of Shanghai has opened to international participants and curators, and more importantly, to any art techniques, while the first two editions were exclusively reserved to traditional Chinese techniques as oil, watercolour painting and ink. This event has become a stage for any possible art experimentation and at the s...
continue..Real art in a virtual space: VIP Art Fair
-> Real art in a virtual space: VIP Art FairAlways the big event of a fair is an appointment that for art experts can't be missed. It is marked in good advance on their calendar like a celebration, usually characterised by the city where it takes place: Madrid, Basel, London, Turin, Miami. But for the first VIP Art Fair's edition you don't need to book a ticket, an hotel or to move from h...
continue..Soma in Berlin. When Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer became a drugdealer…
-> Soma in Berlin. When Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer became a drugdealer…A scientist who is also one of the most prominent contemporary artists in the world, an experiment which crosses the borders of science by landing in the realm of art. This is SOMA, the successful exhibition by Carsten Höller hosted at the Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum für Gegenwart) in Berlin. What a perfect start, I thought, for my first blog se...
continue..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..The opinion
Magazine -> #14 RefreshFour years on into the new Millennium and Europe has turned out more than 500,000 new EAN codes, those thick and narrow bars that adorn the packaging of all sorts of consumer products (source: AC Nielsen). In the UK, for instance, up to 700 new entries have been counted a week. These hefty figures are one of F the most ostensible examples of the...
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..Never loose purity
Magazine -> #25 Innovage“…that feeling we all have sometimes that everything we say or do is not our own, that we as people are only quotations from our environment, that we are carried along by the merciless stream of history and reality... the complications arise when one tries to give that feeling an identity. I do not think it can be done within a conventional nov...
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..The luxury of transparency
Magazine -> #4 PassionVenini, symbol of creativity and excellence in the Italian glass-making sector, is a cosmopolitan firm, one that is consistent with traditions and innovation. Contrasting features are skilfully blended to continue manufacturing the colourful dreams that make Venini an internationally-renowned trademark. Fire, sand, hands - are these shapes and ...
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..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..Creative battles
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationIn Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel." The spirit of creative b...
continue..The opinion
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeWhen it comes to the business world, I am absolutely convinced that the kind of creativity that leads to real innovation can only develop “in house” – in other words the place where all the input from day-to-day relations with clients and products is received and digested. To paraphrase the Chinese saying ”Listen and forget, see and remembe...
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..The coffee of tomorrow
Magazine -> #25 InnovageIn front of a cup of coffee illy’s seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations have been an occasion for me to take a deeper look at this corporate enterprise. What I see is a fine example of Innovage. Thinking back to the nineties, I remember when a cup of espresso coffee was still fairly much a lack-lustre commodity. At the bar one would simply o...
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..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...
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