Les Cités Obscures
Monday, 23 September 2013
June, 1982, the first episode of Les Murailles de Samaris was presented to the French public on the magazine A Suivre, it was the first of twenty books that make up the body of works published in Belgium by Casterman from 1983 to the present. In Les Cités Obscures, François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters created
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Fashion contaminations
Monday, 23 September 2013
Contaminations. Away from disaster movies and environmental disasters, contamination seems a creative imperative now. Unknown scopes and environments combine to give birth to something new, unexpected and exciting. It’s like entering the realm of endless possibility, where everyone has the right to exist. Cinema, photography, visual arts, music… and fashion. Textile creations are no strangers
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Design in 400 words: the “squares” by Alessandro Mendini
Monday, 23 September 2013
I first “met” Mendini when I purchased Lot of Dots for Swatch, in 1990, the watch completely covered in squares. Growing up, I discovered design and start following the architect/artist, I remember that the structure of Alessi headquarter really impressed me: a kind of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory that stands out in a natural environment
The London revival of Effe Logo
Monday, 23 September 2013
Detail oriented, decisive, innovative, resourceful and motivated. So she describes herself (and she seems to be) Francesca Corsini – aka Effe Logo – graduated at the Art Institute Paolo Toschi in Parma (1995) and at the Academy of Art and Design Cappiello in Florence (1998). We met Francesca during her “Italian holiday” for a few
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The Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 19 June 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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Olfaction, the sense preferred by memory
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Balzac, Baudelaire, Calvino, D’Annunzio, Flaubert, Gadda, Wilde, but above all Proust and Süskind… great is the literary fortune of olfactory memories, powerful time machines able to bring us back to the past in a matter of a moment: the smells have the power to activate episodic memory, the one that holds all the events of
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Two Italian myths in the USA: “DK Project”
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Recently passing by a kiosk my eye fell on a comic book that after a quick browse made me take a step back in time. It was the mid-70s when a friend lent me some comic books to read, my first serial comic: I usually read L’Intrepido, Il Monello, Lanciostory, Skorpio, where the stories were
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From cult movie to contemporary fashion: The Great Gatsby
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann, who inaugurated the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, this year has been one of the most anticipated movies by film buffs from around the world. Many reasons have created fibrillation for this cult movie. The director has in fact get used its audience to momentous film as
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Leonardo3: interactivity makes the past alive
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Much has been said about Leonardo da Vinci, even more has been fantasized (there’s even those who attributes to him the authorship of the Holy Shroud) and yet so much remains to be discovered, as evidenced by the temporary exhibition Leonardo3 – The World of Leonardo, held in Milan in the central and elegants Sale
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Atelier: Nicoletta Belletti
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Cheerful is beautiful, cheerful is happy, cheerful is art. And the joy of Nicoletta Belletti is contagious: she is carried by a clear laughter, bright colors, paintings that come out from the surface and invade the surrounding space with energy. In the beginning there were only flowers, but not soft bouquets framed in small paintings
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