In depth
Ximo Roca, an enquiring and rigorous eye, by Quim Larrea
Quim Larrea
20.11.2010 | 14:25
I find it very hard to write about Ximo Roca despite the fact that everybody knows him to be a splendid designer with many projects, awards and an unblemished and financially successful professional career under his belt.
The problem for me is that I know a different Ximo, over and above his public image as a designer. When I think about him, what comes to mind are memories of a...
Learning design, the school that changes
Paolo Deganello
18.11.2010 | 11:17
Design careers, in all their specialities, are currently in vogue among young people; this is why design schools are seeing hundreds of students graduate each year. The people in charge of their training, teachers with long experience in the professional world of design, believe in a dynamic and multidisciplinary education that turns the classroom into an idea lab. Motivating, backing and...
Lavernia & Cienfuegos by Daniel Nebot
Daniel Nebot
26.10.2010 | 12:17
Being a designer in Spain in the early seventies required a nerve which only those capable of renouncing work stability or social recognition and willing to live in poverty had. Trying it out in Valencia was a bold move, one that only a few fools, among them Nacho Lavernia, were ready to make.
Corporate identity, Colegio de Diseñadores de Interior, Comunidad Valenciana, 2009.
After...
Estudio Mariscal. Mediterranean design
Cristina Morozzi
20.10.2010 | 14:11
“Calle Pellaires”, I instruct the taxi driver who picks me up at the airport.
“To Mariscal’s place?” he asks.
In Barcelona, even taxi drivers know him and this despite the fact that he is only a designer. And designers − with the exception of Starck, who is, above all, a great communicator − are not generally well-known by the man on the street. What...
Cross-cultural design from China
Daniela Piscitelli
04.10.2010 | 11:09
China is a hotbed of graphic design. As computers transform the country’s vast calligraphic tradition, each point of reference strengthens its identity. Hong Kong’s westernising bent, Beijing’s traditionalist nature and Macao’s hybrid character exist side by side with the emerging personalities of Shanghai and Guangzhou.
“Asia is a hotbed of global...
Patricia Urquiola
Cristina Morozzi
22.09.2010 | 18:13
Patricia Urquiola (Oviedo, 1961), the most international of Spanish designers, lives and works out of Milan. She cites Magistretti, Munari and Castiglioni as her maestros. Of Castiglioni she recalls his most famous lesson: “the imperative of seeking out one’s own poetics, following neither rules nor guidelines”. Author of a prolific list of products and projects, and keeping...
We need to turn design inside out, like a glove
Paolo Deganello
30.06.2010 | 18:10
Based on his participation in the seminar Less is Next held on World Food Day, Paolo Deganello uses the crisis as a starting point to reflect upon the kind of role architects and designers should play in organising a fairer professional practice, rooted in the defence of new, ethical values.
My paper to the Less is Next (2) conference began with a comparison of two images: the...
