Posts Tagged ‘university’

illywords at Bocconi University

-> illywords at Bocconi University

Milan, 2.30 p.m., Bocconi University: Communication and Events Management course. I have just come out of the presentation that Carlo Bach, art director of illywords, and I were here to give. We presented the last issue, "Conviviality". There were more than 30 students inside and their coordinator, Lia Zarantonello. I do not know if we have been...

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Conscious daily

Magazine -> #13 Conscious project

Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...

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Parsons School of Design, New York

Magazine -> #14 Refresh

Editorial 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 ...

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University of studies of Rome “LA SAPIENZA”

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

Since 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 ...

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ENSAD – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs

Magazine -> #17 Serendipity

ENSAD - 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...

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Muthesius Academy of Arts

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

The 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...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

In the words of economist Jeremy Rifkin: “In 2007 more than half of the world’s population will live in cities”. I would add that there is no alternative. More than just large dormitories, mega-cities are places which attract the greatest investments in order to create and maintain the structures that guarantee the fundamental aspects of thei...

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The Polytechnic University

Magazine -> #19 Aequòpolis

Milan’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...

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Fine Arts Academy of Bologna

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

The 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...

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SVA. School of Visual Arts in New York City

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

School 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...

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Eina, Barcelona. School of Design and Art

Magazine -> #22 Kaizen

Eina realises that illustration has become an essential visual resource for the media (printed, audio-visual or digital medium), and has consequently established itself as a catalyst, bringing together the different origins, concerns, ambitions and ways of doing things that coexist in such a diverse sector. The aim of Eina’s postgraduate illustra...

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The strange alchemy

Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...

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Städelschule, Frankfurt Art Academy

Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise

The 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,...

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School of Graphic Design at the London College of Communication

Magazine -> #25 Innovage

The 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...

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Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Gent

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

Sint-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...

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ISIA – Higher Institute for Artistic Industries – Urbino

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

ISIA – 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 ...

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To google

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

In front a cup of coffee. Google is perhaps one of the best examples of how an idea can create a successful project. The engine behind a great many innovations and new attitudes, it has even altered the English language (the verb “to google” for example, now used by web users as a synonym for “search”). But what is the story behind Goog...

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Labour ecology

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

What matters is being as light as a swallow, not as a feather. This statement, quoted from Paul Valery, is Domenico De Masi's visiting card, and it's the first thing browsers to his site [www.domenicodemasi.it] 
come across. The mental flexibility and agility suggested by these words are indeed a hallmark of the man. Domenico De Masi teaches la...

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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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