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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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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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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Design in 400 words: Alessandro Guerriero
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Alessandro Guerriero is the most versatile person in which I came across. His thought is a tireless tourist of the planet of creativity. Guerriero is Design. He is one of the founders of TAM TAM School, which hereinafter tells us, a project of “non-school” design. “TAM TAM School deals with visual activities and is not,
Mauro Martini Raccasi, the many facets of writing
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Born in Parma, Mauro Martini Raccasi was the first in Italy to graduate in economics with a thesis about journalism at IFOR institute of Bocconi University in Milan. He made his debut in fiction with a historical saga, the tetralogy “Il Romanzo dei Celti” (The novel of the Celts), moving on to other genres, such
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Design in 400 words: the Ecocentrics
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
From the meeting between an architect and an artist was born an idea developed in a very short time and reflected in the design scene through an international exhibition, a passage to the TG and a round of specialized press, by a common passion for the eco-sustainability comes to life an exciting collaboration and an
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Design in 400 words: Sergio Maria Calatroni, 360 degree artist
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
I personally “know” the designer Calatroni and in fact I got in touch with him to talk about this, but my love for Japan made me change direction, leading me to dwell on his recent photographic work. Sergio Maria Calatroni 360° artist, what is the transition from architecture, industrial design to photography? I would not
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Design in 400 words: Karim Rashid, light and colors
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Internationally renowned designer, Karim Rashid made of pastel colors his brand recognition, everything he creates is solar, it puts you in a good mood. Let’s have a chat with him and hear what he thinks about light… Karim Rashid and the light. Light is so ephemeral. Light is so flexible, light creates mood, light can
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Henry van de Velde, a hundred and fifty years of Art Nouveau
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Van de Velde Henry Clemens, known as Henry Van de Velde, was born in Belgium in Antwerp in 1863 and died in Switzerland in 1957. He studied painting, but his admiration for Ruskin, Morris and Voysey shifted him to design; a man of many talents, he believed in the symbiosis between the arts, whether it
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Prokudin, all the colors of the Great Russian Empire
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Sergej Prokudin was born in 1863 and studied chemistry with Dmitrji Mendeleev (the inventor of the Periodic Table, to be clear); when the latter one founded a photograph society, the young Prokudin became fond of photography and in the late nineteenth century, exploiting his studies, became in fact one of the pioneers of color photography.
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