Comics cult: Palmiro and the Far Away Girlfriend
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Palmiro was born on a November night in 1992. He was born by accident. Sauro was trying to draw The Ugly Duckling and the sketches of Pino, a cute and unconvincing doll, appeared Palmiro: a small duckling, ugly and black. But duck, like those of Carl Barks. It was love at first sight. Created for
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Growing while drawing for children: “Whodunit, blue cat?”
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
The first public appearance of the new book by Fermoeditore, Whodunit, blue cat? was followed with interest and participation. Arriving from Milan to Mondadori bookshop in Euro Torri mall, the three young authors recounted their adventure: making this book, Giulia, Silvia and Paolo are in fact graduates from I.E.D. (European Institute of Design) in Milan.
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“Twenty years and still rocking”: Luigi Alfieri celebrates his writing career
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Sunday, 17th of November at Euro Torri mall in Parma: from 16:30 onwards we celebrate Luigi Alfieri’s twenty years of writing career. Born in Cella di Palmia (province of Parma) in 1957, Luigi Alfieri started his career as a travel journalist; he was president of Neos, an association that brings together journalists and photographers. He
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Crazy for Kubb
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
The Kubb is a game that resembles bowling, bowling and “horseshoes”. You can play it on grass, sand, snow, cement or ice. The version currently played was born on the island of Gotland, Sweden; the rules vary but the ultimate goal of the game is always to overthrow the kubbs on the opposite side with
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The enchanting Shahrazād of Art: Anne Bachelier
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Anne Bachelier is a pure surrealist, Bretonnian in the philological sense of the term. Her surrealism is purely theoretical because even though her art spouses in toto “wonder, dream, madness” as in her manifesto, she’s able to transform it, at some point, in flesh and blood. Bachelier invites those who are about to observe her
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When the book can be worn
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Books to love, to hate, to study, to eat, to read, to browse… the list could be endless. For someone are true objects of worship, for others are the purpose of a life and almost a mission, for others work or pleasure. And for someone they become a fashion accessory: recycled or designed ex novo,
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The factory of the perfect book: Bodoni celebrated in Parma
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
In 1813 died in Parma Giambattista Bodoni, and the city where he lived and where he could become “prince of printers” dedicates an exhibition set up in several locations within Pilotta complex: the journey begins on the Palatina Library, in the Petitot Gallery, continuing then in the under-terraces of Teatro Farnese and ending in the
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Design in 400 words: Alessi
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Since I started my “house setting up” I have changed about 7/8 of it; along the way I removed furniture reducing in the end everything to large sofas and large tables. The pieces that on the contrary continued to increase were the funny objects of everyday utility made by Alberto Alessi and his designers. Who
Atelier. Ludmila Kazinkina
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Women in white petticoat that reveals tiny bodies – almost childish – fragile, diaphanous bodies expressing loneliness, faces magnified and bright eyes looking straight ahead with firmness and decision. And then animals: fierce or wild and sweet or domestic, flanked by female figures, without even a communication or dialogue ever. Everything, in the paintings by
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Strange geometries for dreams of color: Federica Ubaldo
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
We must not go too far to fill our eyes with wonder, often beautiful things are so close we could almost touch them. This is the case of the young and talented Federica Ubaldo, specialized in illustration for children and editorial illustration. It is easy to imagine her in her studio in Milan, to the
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