Imagine a Friday in Mondadori…
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Bookstores have a quality that is missing in other stores: the welcome ability. The passionate reader certainly buys even online, but nothing will ever take away the pleasure to browse among the shelves, be attracted by the covers, steal some phrase flipping through the beloved paper. It is a never-ending love. The library is made
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One Pixel a day
Wednesday, 13 February 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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Long live Maria (Luigia)
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
«The artistic heritage of a people is sacred and history wants big things being preserved where they were born, where they are the frieze of life of the people who create them»: this is the spirit with whom professor Glauco Lombardi (1881-1970) devoted his physical, intellectual and economic energies to recover, study and preserving what
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Marco and the stories of “Rain”
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Marco Grosse, born in Buenos Aires in 1974 from German father and Italian mother, works as a translator, teacher and bookseller. He studied Law in Milan and in Bonn, pursuing with Linguistic and Cultural Mediation. In Italian language he published Imperial Gardens (I giardini imperiali, De Ferrari 2006) and Rain (Pioggia, De Ferrari 2010), both
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Dj Mackelmore and his Thrift Shop
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
In USA there is a big trend, or even, a real contagion that is involving a plenty of people. It’s not a disease but a white rapper from Seattle very debated and irreverent and one of his most famous funky songs, dedicated to thrift stores, Thrift Shop, viewed more than 77 million times on Youtube;
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Giovanni Amoretti, “smart photographer”
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Giovanni Amoretti’s story is the story of a family. Story that begins with a photographer father – Armando – that left us the amazing report about Parma barricades in 1922. And this is the beginning of an archive of thousands films and images that is still alive, growing, which is a unique treasure chest of
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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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