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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
Fear of not succeeding
-> Fear of not succeedingThe countdown has started towards issue #28... "che emozione!" Cut, add, translate, check, cut again... that doesn’t work… now it is ok! We lack a cover but Pietro (Corraini) is finalizing it and will be good for sure. The feather is growing and at the same time grows the fear of not suceeding. This is the most critical phase w...
continue..Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus Academy
-> Issue 28 is off to a great start at Domus AcademyWe're off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan! The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality... whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course... When we eat, preferably over some good food… The ...
continue..Parsons School of Design, New York
Magazine -> #14 RefreshEditorial Illustration, the primary market for illustrators in the United States, has been experiencing a decline in recent years. However, the territory outside of the traditional publishing market has been expanding at a rapid rate. The class Beyond Editorial, whose work is featured here, explores this fruitful landscape, giving students a taste ...
continue..University of studies of Rome “LA SAPIENZA”
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologySince its inception ten years ago, the highly articulated and academically teeming course on industrial design of La Sapienza University in Rome has come to play an important role on the national scene under the direction of its president, Professor Tonino Paris, and with its highly renowned masters and research doctorates is attracting increasing ...
continue..ENSAD – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityENSAD - 31, rue d’Ulm 75240 Paris Cedex 06 France - tel: 01 42 34 97 00 - www.ensad.fr communication: Nathalie Battais Ensad traces its history back to the Royal School of Design established in 1766. The School, which was free, afforded crafts people the opportunity of becoming creative artists. Emphasis was placed on draughtsmanship, and s...
continue..Muthesius Academy of Arts
Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindThe history of the “Muthesius Academy” in Kiel, Northern Germany, goes back to the beginning of the 20th century: the school’s course concept is based on the ideas of the “German Werkbund”, an organization that was founded in 1907 by a group of artists, architects, writers and industrials and that promoted the idea of combining traditiona...
continue..The Polytechnic University
Magazine -> #19 AequòpolisMilan’s Polytechnic was chosen in 1993 as the location for Italy's first-ever degree course in Industrial Design. The history of the Industrial Design degree (at the Faculty of Design since June 2000) has been marked by a sustained interest in trying out new and innovative course structures, as a response to the real needs of the contemporary mar...
continue..Fine Arts Academy of Bologna
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeThe Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy. Founded in 1706 to promote the arts and handicrafts in Emilia Romagna, in 1711 it was moved to the fifteenth-century convent of Sant’Ignazio, in the heart of the university district (Bologna has the world’s oldest recorded university) and was later exten...
continue..SVA. School of Visual Arts in New York City
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallySchool of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City was founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with 35 students and three instructors. Today, SVA is one of the leading visual arts colleges in the U.S., with a student body of over 3,000 undergraduates, 400 graduate students and 2,200 continuing education students from almost every stat...
continue..The laboratory of surprises
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseThe Städelschule is an experimental school in the sense that we are interested in probing the very boundaries of what an educational institution can be. The filmmaker Peter Kubelka’s activities in the 1990s involving music and food (and even live animals from a circus) are legendary. A more recent example we can remember Gasthof (2002), a one-w...
continue..Städelschule, Frankfurt Art Academy
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseThe Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main is one of Germany’s most well known art academies. Founded in 1817 by the Frankfurt merchant and collector Johann Friedrich Städel, it has today developed into an experimental school with an international faculty and with students from across the globe. The school has its own exhibition space, the Portikus,...
continue..School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThe School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication is a part of the University of the Arts, London, Europe’s largest university for art, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. It is a collegiate university comprising the six London Art Colleges; Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and...
continue..The magic cup, not only for coffee
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesWhite, big, smooth, perhaps somewhat irrational, but beautiful. In my recollections, at least. It's the cup I used to drink my milk in when I was a child. There was also coffee but maybe, because of the particular period, the war had just ended, it was more like an impression of dark colouring rather than real coffee. I used to break pieces of brea...
continue..ISIA – Higher Institute for Artistic Industries – Urbino
Magazine -> #27 The Culture of ListeningISIA – Higher Institute for Artistic Industries – is a state school teaching graphic design at graduate level and it is part of the Dipartimento di Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale (department for higher music and art training) run by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research. The ISIA premises are in the Santa Chiara ...
continue..Interview with Daniel Buren
Magazine -> #8 Place, not placeIt's snowing when I meet Daniel Buren at the Press Restaurant of the Bologna Art Fair. He's just arrived and despite the clatter of cutlery and din and row of loud voices he's easy and relaxed, and quite willing to answer my questions. After all, any place will do when one meets with the "genuine article". To quote from one of your statements...
continue..Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitHistory of Estonian Academy of Arts goes back to 1914, founded as Tallinn Industrial Art School. After Estonia’s re-independence from USSR, in 1994 Estonia became European Union member state, and in 1996 the institute was renamed as Estonian Academy of Arts and certified as a sole public-low Art University in Estonia. Our institute is member of ...
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