A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 07 May 2013
t’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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“Yellow as a blue cat”, exhibition in Milan
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
“Yellow as a blue cat”, graduation thesis for Fermoeditore by Giulia Coppola, Silvia Magnani and Paolo Zadra, from IED in Milan, will be on display at the bookshop Scaldapensieri in Milan until May 12. “The project involves the construction of a noir story presented by three different points of view, from three characters: a boy,
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 24 April 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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60 years of horsebit loafers Gucci
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Few people know that horsebit loafer was born in Tuscany in 1953 when Aldo Gucci, son of the founder Guccio Gucci, decided that the family brand should go into the shoe business. The loafer since then has become a key element of the male and also female wardrobe. To create the first unisex model, Aldo
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Walking through fairy tales
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Grimm brothers have two hundred years, even if their first collection, “Children’s and Household Tales”, is from 1821. The stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm include titles and characters that every child knows: Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Hansel and Gretel…many of them accompany the famous Märchenstrasse (Fairytale Road), a famous
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The Princess and the sea monster
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Fairy tale elements and their graphical solution in European books were investigated, from XIII to XVIII century. The ornaments on book pages, their interaction with the handwritten text, entwinements and transformations of vegetative elements into the heads and tails of fantastic beasties that suddenly come alive – and then the book stops being just an
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The color that makes the difference: the black cat
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Loved and respected as gods, feared and hated as demons. Black cats had over the centuries a troubled life and even today they are not highly regarded by everybody. Sacred to Isis in the ancient Egypt – in case of fire or other emergency that forced to leave the house, according to law and the
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Design in 400 words: FuoriSalone surprises
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Milan, for me, is the most beautiful city in the world, but there is one week during the year in which it becomes like that for everyone. It’s the week of “iSaloni” where it changes clothes wearing the most shining it possesses. Design fills the street, installations everywhere, and every year a new pole of
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Atelier: Giorgio Tentolini
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
We had an appointment to decide about an exhibition project. Giorgio Tentolini comes running, panting and out of breath. He sits down and starts talking about sagittal sections, opens his leather purse and pulls out pieces of net, gauze, latex, torn folders containing prototypes of those series he entitled Cropped Papers. He also talks about
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“Sun and snow”, a gourmet meeting
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Just take four writers and journalists of the Gazzetta di Parma, add the most famous Italian singer in South America, one of the greatest Italian contemporary painters, the creativity of the chef Andrea Nizzi and four beers of Birrificio del Ducato and you will have the recipe served to the guests of “Mangia come scrivi”
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