Posts Tagged ‘design’
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
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|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
|Anti-Modernista|#3
|New Lancia Ypsilon|2011| Let’s have a look And now let’s remember these… Lately Italian car design, in particular Centro Stile Fiat, has turned really baroque. But adding with a very “manieristic” attitude details and redundant particular does not always work out. The New Ypsilon design is at the same time anonymous and too fancy. Usually [...]
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Etichette: 2011, A112, Autobianchi, car, car design, Centro Stile Fiat, design, Fiat, Gruppo Fiat, Lancia, New Ypsilon, Y10
|Art Object|2011|
Art Object is an interesting fair of art and independent design organized every year in Rotterdam. Its mainly aim is to give a commercial exposition for Dutch galleries and their artists coming from all over the world. It is wisely divided into two parts: Art is about contemporary artists, while Object is for limited production [...]
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Etichette: 2011, art, Art Object, design, fair, february, galleries, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Wilhelminapier
|Past-Present|
|When aging is overcome| Design deals with time in many ways. Sometimes objects change and evolve while aging. Sometimes they can get through time, and enter a meta-dimension that goes beyond style, years, and even users. They are not modern, but they become contemporary/concurrent/coeval.
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Etichette: 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, aging, danish design, dans design center, design, objects
|Anti-Modernista|#2
|by Riva| Some objects had the good chance to be born from experience, knowledge, skills. And these objects have all these characteristics deeply in their DNA, like Riva motorboats. Companies like Riva should be aware of that, so to preserve and defend the “oeuvre of art” they produce, because those objects can represent a piece [...]
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Etichette: 2010, aquarama, design, Marc Newsons, Motorboat, motoscafo, Riva
|Anti-Modernista|#1
|by Cassina| Have you ever tried penne all’arrabbiata with ketchup? Italian Design companies, especially Cassina, have always created special series of furniture from famous projects of Le Corbusier, Aalto, van der Rohe, etc. These series were always able to give new life and strength to these product, in some way they really could make them [...]
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Etichette: Cassina, design, furniture, Le Corbusier
|Iper Digital|#2|
|Why my iPhone 4 is a BIG FAIL| Few months ago the new iPhone 4 was released, and again the launch of a new Apple product became the Event. Let analyze some interesting steps of the young life of the new iPhone 4. It was presented to the world through a smart marketing action: let [...]
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Etichette: apple, design, interface, iPhone 4, Jonathan Ive, review, steve jobs, tlc, tool
|London Design Festival|#1|
London Design Festival 2010 | 18-26 September 2010 In the meantime I was writing this post, I missed Wien and Brussels Design Week. While Design Week all over Europe are becoming “craftsmanship fair”, it would be nice to take out something interesting from the most important ones, before moving to the next touristic event. LDF [...]
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Etichette: 2010, bench, Cappellini, design, London, London Design Festival, Raw Edge, Tailored Wood, Victoria & Albert Museum
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