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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
Moving forward by stepping back: creating a new Tokyo
-> Moving forward by stepping back: creating a new TokyoThe cherry blossom season is one of the most beautiful times of the year in Japan. We have the tradition to celebrate under the cherry blossom trees to enjoy their beauty. Spring also marks new beginnings in Japan. The new school year starts and businesses welcome in fresh new faces. The city of Tokyo usually sparkles with life, celebrating these f...
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Magazine -> #12 Waiting for ChinaConcept artist, painter, sculptor, designer, and calligrapher, Huang Rui is one of the founders of Le Stelle, the first avant-garde group in China. Founded in the eighties, the group challenged the strictures and prohibitions of officialdom against the creative freedom of artists. After living in Japan for ten years, he is now back on his home tur...
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Magazine -> #22 KaizenEver since it was first used in management theory, the Japanese concept, kaizen, has intrigued me. So much so that, before gladly applying it in our company, more than fifteen years ago, I went to Japan to study it “on site” at Toyota, where the term was first seriously applied. There I was able to appreciate how efficient it is and see how thi...
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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...
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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...
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Magazine -> #20 Home MadeCan you tell us how your blook was created? The process was different from the traditional route followed by Italian publishing and media. In 2005, we read an inquiry in El País entitled La Generación De Los Mil Euros: young people aged 25-35 forced into temporary jobs with a salary of 1000 euros a month. It was a similar situation to what we h...
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Magazine -> #22 KaizenWhat meaning do you give to the word kaizen? Is there any link between your artistic work and this concept? Kaizen means improvement, but as an artist I don’t pay much heed to this word, because of its industrial connotations. In this context, the word kaizen can be explained in terms of a succession of small changes, designed to simplify and i...
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