Archive for the ‘design’ Category
Salone2012
Focus from distance Collecting – Reflecting – Judging A.D. 2012, Salone del Mobile, Milan. Can Pinterest become an effective tool for photo reporting and event coverage from distance? In this board I will collect the most interesting (give a broad definition to this adjective) products/services/events/etc coming out from Salone del Mobile. Can this event still [...]
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Etichette: 2012, design, event coverage, italia, Milan Design Week, Milano, Pinterest, salone del mobile
I Saloni of our discontent
People in denial And again, I Saloni 2012. Hundred of thousands of “creative” people in Milan, to celebrate Design. To clap either to the same old masters, or fresh foreign folks, preferably from Sweden and the Netherlands. We want criticism, not celebration. We’ll see from tomorrow. But the prelude is not charming. The world is [...]
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Etichette: advertisement, advertising, B&B, denial, design, furniture, product design, salone del mobile
ItalianDesign#1
AKA: Panic Attack Here we go: Fabio Novembre design talk at the V&A Museum. Deep breath. 34 minutes. Breath again. Good God two parts?! Ok, let’s watch it. Peroni Collaborazioni Talks: Fabio Novembre part 1 from Dezeen on Vimeo. Comments soon, if I survive
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Etichette: design talk, fabio novembre, italian design, V&A Museum
Game#1
How to show labour practice How far would you go to produce fashion? Wanna feel like an Apple factory manager? Try out HERE
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Etichette: exploitation, fashion, game, labour, serious games
Building a future
First step: think about! Economic Crisis Social Crisis Democracy Crisis Revolution Crisis Environment Crisis Ideal Crisis Identity Crisis Everything stands still. But everything is changing. We can’t have certitude because complex mechanisms are working really fast in every corner of the world. Many issues seem to get worst, hopelessly. That’s because we desperately try to [...]
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Etichette: consume, crisis, design, europe, information, production, welfare
Time to Think
I started thinking. And that’s a problem. For every religion. Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out. Article [...]
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Etichette: apple, China, crap
|HomeEnergyManagement|#2|
|The Perfect User Test| Projects always give a lot of surprise. You know how you start, you never know how (and when) it will end. And many times designers should warm up their best skill to go through, in particular if they need help from external users. So that’s the receipt for the Perfect User [...]
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Etichette: casualties, design, graduation project, project, user research, user session
|A Place for Everything|#03|
|Le Fabbriche dei Sogni/Dream Factories| The forth exhibition for the Triennale Design Museum is dedicated to the factories and people who made the Italian Design of the last 5o years. As usually the director is S. Annicchiarico, the scientific curator is Alberto Alessi, while the exhibition has been designed by Marti Guixé. I was very [...]
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Etichette: 2011, Alberto Alessi, design, Design Museum, Dream Factories, exhibition, fourth edition, Le Fabbriche dei Sogni, Marti Guixé, Milano, museum, Palazzo dell'Arte, quarta edizione, Silvana Annicchiarico, Triennale Design Museum
|Good Idea/Bad Idea|#1|
|A matter of smell| WC deodorant Every housewife knows the importance of such a tiny product. You can wash your WC everyday, but nothing can help better the perception of cleanness than the fake and actually not so lovely smell of WC deodorant. Well probably that smell could classified and “just-cleaned-wc” smell. Body deodorant spray [...]
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Etichette: advertising, Axe, bad idea, deodorant, good idea, parfume, sexist, spray, tablet, wc



