The Italian design over the crisis, at the Triennale
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Seventh edition of the Triennale Design Museum: the focus is on a theme linked to actuality, productive self-sufficiency. The way to deal with the crisis differently adopted in three crucial periods in history – the ’30s,’70s and early ’00s – it shows how economic crises are conducive to the stimulation of design creativity. With the
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Design in 400 words: Toyssimi
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
What 100 children and 100 designers do together? Simple, they build toys! “We were three friends at the bar… the fourth, then came”. “Fool idea” many will say, but it seems that the project is not as crazy as many of us believe in it, and they want to let it travel. For some reason
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Design in 400 parole: Venice in a bottle
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
You walk placidly, you’re in Venice, when you stop dead on your track and come back, as if something were calling you, some sort of subliminal message in your walk… a few steps and you’re before that white shop window which, as it seems, is already stamped in your mind, maybe it’s for the rainbow
Design in 400 words: keep an eye on these eyeglasses!
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
It happens that during a Fuorisalone event I run into a shop where are exposed very special pair of glasses models, too good to be “standard brand”… I got in and I met Guido (Sofia the next time) and I got out with a pair of glasses with a square lens and a round one!
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Munari Politecnico: genius on exhibition
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Theoretical reconstruction of an imaginary object, the presence of ancestors, illegible writing of unknown people, fossils of 2000, fabrics obtained from the mistakes of printing machines, unreadable books and useless machines. These are the titles of some works by Bruno Munari, a source of meaning and fun for the watchful viewer: a genius who has
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Design in 400 words: Fantacentrica
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
It’s called “Siabbottoni” (Buttoning) Simone Abbottoni’s website, that explains to those who enter for the first time: “N.1 Si is the beginning of Simone, and Abbottoni is the surname No.2 Si Abbottoni – imperative of “to button” in italian – is a gentle invitation to those who talk too much and badly”. But Simone Abbottoni
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Design in 400 words: SHARING DESIGN – The 3D world meets the 10D world (part one)
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
With Maria Christina Hamel of Milan Makers begins a cycle of interviews dedicated to Fuorisalone 2014. Leave the floor to the designer so she can tell us about her project, thought and concretized by the group that she represents. «Milan Makers in its manifestation SHARING DESIGN – 3D world meets the 10D world held during
Design in 400 words: Hermès seen by Michele De Lucchi
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Fuorisalone 2014 running, in a hurry to see as much as possible, but in the end this year I have seen little or nothing, but I saw beauty. After the suggestion of a friend, I jumped at the Palazzo Serbelloni to enjoy Hermès seen by Michele De Lucchi. In the striking Milanese neo-classical palace by
Design in 400 words: OTTAVIO the forgetful
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
In case you need a design object to be inserted in the children room I would like to introduce to you “OTTAVIO Lo Smemorato” (OTTAVIO the forgetful), prototype on display at SHARING DESIGN, container of events in Fabbrica del Vapore organized by Milano Makers at the last Salone del Mobile. OTTAVIO is a “rare” kind
Design in 400 words: Willow
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
I love Willow’s work, his paintings seem an animated gif in a frantic movement, so important contours give more strength to the “comic book”. Yeah, they look like a cartoon! Long ago, scrolling the pictures depicting his work with a child by my side, this one invented an alien story for each canvas to the