Dario Cecchini - butcher

Lovely portrait of one of the bets Italian butcher. Even is you are a convict vegetarian you can watch this video and learn!

Inês Nepomuceno

Lovely photography project.

Ines Nepomuceno says: "The banality of this food was transformed by the medium and the not-interesting moment of the end of the meal became immortal and memorable."

Clara Romani's Ceramic

Keramikos from Arnau Tàsies on Vimeo.

Elisa Strozyk

Beautiful combination of wood and textile in an accordion-like folded surface, these product by designer Elisa Strozyk in collaboration with artist Sebastian Neeb generate a new experience of the material wood.

Raptus and Roses

A very creative Italian lady, Silvia Bisconti, is the mind behind Raptus and Roses, a fashion studio in Belluno, North Italy. Silvia carefully select vintage textile and vintage dresses around the world.
She then design new pieces combining the textiles and the dresses patterns . I love these "frocks" they are unique and very feminine. You can see the available models on the web and follow Silvia on her blog.

serata from Raptus and Rose on Vimeo.

Miya Kondo

A lovely collection of objects with no clearly defined function, designer Miya Kondo called them

Objects of Empathy. The user will define the functionality of each objects through the way he will use and handle them.



Welcome back dear blog Friends!

How was your break? I hope you could recharge and get inspired.

I did enjoy lovely days in my hometown, Genoa, the picture above was taken on December 26th, can you see the wonderful sun and strong light? incredible weather for December!!

Now back to work, I look forward to a super stylish and creative year.

Anna



XMas Break

Dear Blog friends,
it's time for a short break, see you soon here, in the mean time have a lovely holiday with family and friends wherever you are!

Anna

Il Girasole - a house near Verona

Michelle Liu - Dutch Design Week

Michelle Liu - Beecosystem from Design Academy Eindhoven on Vimeo.

Recently graduated in the Social Design Master department of the Design Academy Eindhoven, Michelle Liu (USA) did develop this interesting concept.

Beecosystem is a project that utilizes the current state of the global honeybee crisis as a host to try and focus on finding possible solutions to revive cyclical thinking. Having a thorough understanding of the connections between the various components that make up life on earth can have an affect on how we consider our daily activities.  How can design play a role in designing small gestures that can have a big impact on human behavior?

Kyra van Ineveld - Dutch Design Week

Dutch designer Kyra van Ineveld did research the impact of the new information technology tools and how they change the information system and the truth.

Taking Wikipedia as case study, Kyra did investigate the topics that are updated most often from the public of this online encyclopaedia. She narrowed them down to five: Obama, war in Gaza, Catholic Church, global warming, race and intelligence.

Then she printed all the changes in a massive series of books, combining the old book style and the information (wikipedia style) in order to promote the real truth.

Jannis Hulsen

Xylium is the name of this project.
German designer Jannis Hulsen, did research a bacterium which produces an artificial cellulose material, Xylium is the name of the bacterium.

In collaboration with the company Jenpolymers, he developed a technique to create a skin around a wooden stool frame, forming the coating and seating surface.