Design in 400 parole: DaD, what’s DaD!
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Un appassionato di design come me lo sa che andrà a scontrarsi sempre con qualcosa di nuovo, di stravagante e fuori dai parametri, anni fa i primi pezzi realizzati con il cartone ondulato, poi imbottiti con gym-ball, le sedie rivestite di formaggio olandese andato a male, ma rigorosamente chiuse in una teca perché come profumazione
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Edition Noir: when publishing has class
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
The publishing house Edition Noir was born in 1994 in a small town in Hessen, Lich. As the host of exhibitions and organization dedicated to regular publications, it takes part in various trade fairs in Germany – Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Düsseldorf. Since 2004, with the construction of the Bessinger hand press, engravings and woodcuts take
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One Pixel a day
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Discover Archimedes? It’s a fun
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
In Syracuse, in the old and restored Pupillo Palace, right in Archimedes Square (in the city centre) you can visit the ultra modern Arkimedeion, Scientific and Technologic Museum named after the great Greek mathematician and physician who lived in Syracuse from 287 to 212 b.C., one of the best classic ancestry scientists. The main subjects
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Vivian Maier, witness of time
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Vivian Maier was born in 1926 and died in Chicago in 2009. She was 83. The photos this woman took during her life have been displayed to public for the first time in 2010: one year after her death. What a story Mrs Maier’s one; when I read it for the first time I could
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When the videogame speaks Latin
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Apart from the impressive soundtrack by well known composers, videogames always find new ways to astonish and send adrenaline down our spine. One of the most recent device is Latin, a “dead language” sometimes exhumed for its evocative features. Let’s take Super Smash Bros. Brawl by Nintendo: the heroic adventures of Super Mario are celebrated
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Borgotaro with the sun and the snow
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
In the afternoon of the 26th January in Borgotaro there are both, sun and snow. Right in the historical centre, the comfortable Biblioteca Manara hosts a new presentation of the slow book “Sun and snow”, in a crowded small room where no one is missing. In fact besides a certainly curious audience there are mayor,
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A dinner with Goldfish
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Good food and good reads: a hard-to-beat combination! The last event of the 2012 season of Eat as you write, entitled Night of the commissioners and investigators, provided all guests with an engaging and entertaining evening. Designed by journalist Gianluigi Negri, the event has seen the participation in the literary and artistic dinner at the
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