Headline & Editorial
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
David Graves: my business dinner nightmare
-> David Graves: my business dinner nightmareIn "who was your table companion when...", we ask readers to tell stories of unusual conviviality. While the students of Domus Academy created objects to enhance conviviality (both at the table and elsewhere), we all have plenty of stories of embarrassing dinners gone wrong - that flying chicken carcass, the inappropriate guest... While at the S...
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..Sorpresa!
-> Sorpresa!Mi sarebbe piaciuto produrre un numero di illywords intitolato “LA SORPRESA!”. Possiamo però riflettere e scambiare opinioni sul tema attraverso il web. Chissà che non si riesca un domani a realizzarlo fisicamente :-) Oggi c'è una spasmodica voglia di sorprendere il pubblico, attraverso la pubblicità, attraverso le azioni e le relazioni:...
continue..Richard Wilde @SVA: how to be an inspirational professor
-> Richard Wilde @SVA: how to be an inspirational professorThis video is a collaboration between the young director Nicolas Heller and the author/designer/professor Steven Heller. Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, who are co-founders of the MFA Designer as Author Program School of Visual Arts in New York, contributed "The Twenty Senses" to Illywords #21 "Senti-mentality". Richard Wilde is their colleague at...
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..Experience
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationI remember the first designs we used to prepare at Central Saint Martins College, when the briefs (author's note: design instructions) consisted of threefour words randomly picked by our tutors. We would start working in small groups, not knowing each other: at that stage it was impossible to have any prejudices or dislikes. For the same reason, th...
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