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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
“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..Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell’arte!
-> Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell'arte!Leggo sul magazine Io Donna (il femminile del Corriere della Sera) che Angela Vettese, critica d’arte, è appena stata premiata come figura di spicco al femminile. La Giuria internazionale del Veuve Cliquot Award ha deciso di assegnarle il premio 2010 “al valore artistico femminile”. Sorrido mentre leggo l'intervista ad Angela Vettese (di P...
continue..SVA design students spend two weeks in Italy
-> SVA design students spend two weeks in ItalyWho wouldn't want to spend two weeks in Italy? The students of the Masters Workshop in Design History, Theory and Practice of the SVA (School of Visual Art) in New York spent May 20 to June 5th in Venice, to be followed by this week (June 6-12) in Rome. You can follow them through the blog and photos they're posting each day on the official site; s...
continue..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..Interaction Designers Play surrealist game “Exquisite Corpse”
-> Interaction Designers Play surrealist game "Exquisite Corpse"While working on their Ideas for the "Conviviality Workshop", Domus Academy's Interaction Design Class attended a special two-days intensive mini-workshop on quick videomaking techniques, which was led by Interactiondesign Lab's Simone Muscolino. The activity exposed the students to a number of creative techniques to help them identify expressiv...
continue..What is the greatest influence on a convivial moment?
-> What is the greatest influence on a convivial moment?As you know, the next issue of illywords takes up the theme of conversation and relationships around the table, or conviviality, and the students of Domus Academy in Milan are currently finishing up their projects that will be the visual material for the magazine. We asked students to answer this question: "What is the greatest influence on a co...
continue..Real presence
Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectnKA | ICA Indipendent Centre of Art Beograd Director: Biljana Tomic Art director and workshop manager: Dobrila Denegri In 2001, straight after the arrival of democracy in Serbia, the idea took off for a great meeting of young REAL PRESENCE artists. Biljana Tomic and I asked young emerging artists from all over Europe to come to Belgrade an...
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..Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Gent
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorSint-Lucas Visual Arts is located in the city centre of Gent, one of the major cities in Flanders. Gent’s history dates back to the early Middle Ages, and the city centre resembles an open air museum with splendid monuments, fairy-tale fronts and statues. The extraordinary fascinating patrimony turns Gent into one of the focuses of the cultural l...
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..Lone photographer
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeIn his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised. Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...
continue..Self-portrait and Haptic Interface Design Workshop
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitSince I started working on Haptic Interface Design and especially on the field research into the haptic quality hidden in various textures, my digital camera has been working exactly as my third eye: it automatically focuses on and catch what I do not see exactly with my two naked eyes but I feel by touching, hearing, smelling or by instinct. Ac...
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