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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Vivian Maier, witness of time
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Vivian Maier was born in 1926 and died in Chicago in 2009. She was 83. The photos this woman took during her life have been displayed to public for the first time in 2010: one year after her death. What a story Mrs Maier’s one; when I read it for the first time I could
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A dinner with Goldfish
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Good food and good reads: a hard-to-beat combination! The last event of the 2012 season of Eat as you write, entitled Night of the commissioners and investigators, provided all guests with an engaging and entertaining evening. Designed by journalist Gianluigi Negri, the event has seen the participation in the literary and artistic dinner at the
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Gangnam Style: a blockbuster becomes a hymn of freedom
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
The interest on the part of the young and wealthy Korean for fashion is a growing phenomenon in South Korea. This is evident from the number of Koreans one can meet in Italy at Milan fashion shows or at Pitti Uomo and from their strong passion for everything that is made in Italy. But probably,
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The “Bernstein-bookshop”
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
While in Italy many small bookshops are struggling to keep up with the big chains, in Germany, recently, one can see an opposite trend. Big chains like “Thalia” or “Weltbild” have to close branches due to falling sales and on the contrary, small bookshops are opening thanks to the initiative of booklovers and small publishers.
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Brownfield, birth of a project
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” is the title of a book by DF Wallace, but it is a statement that I could use at the end of my career that I want to tell now, although I know full well that I won’t ever believe in the assertion above but rather, if
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The art of Galya Popova
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Galya Popova has always known that she wanted to be an artist. Born in Moscow in 1978, she attended since she was a child art studios and art schools. When she was six years old, she already began to show exceptional talent, so that her teacher enrolled her in a studio for adults. While she continued to train in her spare time,
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Furoncoli, telling through images
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Franco Furoncoli, 1945, has always lived in Parma. His passion for photography is evident in the ’60s, when he produced his first picture with his dad’s Retinett. We will tell you about him, using his own words. «In ’68, while attending the Faculty of Geology, I set up a darkroom in the basement for the
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“The Concourse” of Johannes and Philipp
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Two brothers, born in a small Bavarian town in 1984 and 1986. Philipp is the youngest. Grown among thousands of comics, they soon began to draw, invent stories, develop fantasy worlds, spending days thinking about characters and adventures. As long as the serious side of life has knocked on their door: the school was over,
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Galerie Vevais introduces its newest book series: Vevais-Werkdruck
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Edition Galerie Vevais is the brainchild of the German architect and poet, Alexander Scholz. Coming from the world of architecture has allowed Scholz to approach “the book” in fresh, original, and dramatic new ways. His art editions, CDs, and DVDs look like nothing else that exists in the publishing world. Scholz began in 1997 working
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