Everybody loves democratic products. Or not?

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Aggirandomi per le fiere di settore e seguendo i blog che trattano tematiche relative al design e alle sue propaggini, mi pare stiano nascendo e si stiano diffondendo sempre più aziende che producono e commercializzano prodotti ottenuti tramite le tecnologie di prototipazione rapida, fino a (more)

2 February 2012 / 1 comment
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Design

Want it

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Graphic Designer Ryan Myers designed this wonderful playing-card set using Helvetica font. Cool. Want it. / Il designer grafico Ryan Myers ha disegnato un fantastico mazzo di carte utilizzando il font Helvetica. Fantastico. Voglio.

18 November 2011 / 1 comment
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Art, Design, Illustration

Creativity and timing

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An interesting video showing how tight deadlines influence creativity. Are you a speed worker or you take your time? / Un interessante video che mostra come deadlines troppo strette influenzano la creatività. E voi? Siete dei campioni di velocità o vi prendete il giusto tempo? (more)

7 November 2011 / 0 comments
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Art, Design

EAMES: The Architect and The Painter

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Coming soon a nice documentary movie, the first to be released since their deaths, about the life and the work of the Eames. I’m quite sure Italian cinemas won’t host the film, but I hope we will be able to rent it or buy it (more)

1 November 2011 / 2 comments
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Architecture

MS Future

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Microsoft just published an inspiring video talking about our possible future scenario. Do you agree with this concept of  a wealthy society or is it just a blind vision? PS: the wierdest thing is that, with all these contents, I didn’t see any ad or (more)

28 October 2011 / 0 comments
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Art, Design

A reminder for (every) designer

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Moreover, please consider this: “The only place where success comes before sweat is the dictionary”. / E ricordiamoci anche che: “L’unico posto dove successo viene prima di sudore è il dizionario”.

22 July 2011 / 0 comments
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Design

Who does research today?

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(english text below) Chi fa ricerca, oggi? Le aziende, i designer, i terzisti? Oggi, sembra che davvero poche aziende possano sostenere una giusta ricerca su materiali/tecnologie/processi, quindi quelle che non possono hanno fondamentalmente due scelte: non fare ricerca, o lasciare che siano i designers a (more)

22 May 2011 / 0 comments
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Design

Dark Side & Painted Plastic

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Did we finally accept plastic? In past time, apart from some divagations from Braun, Brionvega and few more, gray-painted plastic was the colour of technology, because it was the best way to hide the new, poorly-perceived matter and make it more similar to a quality (more)

3 February 2011 / 0 comments
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Design

New chairs for old bums!

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It seems the upcoming international design fairs will bring us a new typology of object, not what designers usually deal with. Chairs. Lots of chairs. Sincerely, I don’t know how to considerate this datum, but for sure many progressive minds must have felt a lack (more)

22 January 2011 / 1 comment
From Forms/Functions/Behaviours by Giorgio Biscaro in Design

Colours #1

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I personally like the use of colours when they help identify a specific function, or when they underline a specific performance, or behaviour. Dieter Rams’ T1000 for Braun is a fantastic example of how colours could be used to declare a performance. While the whole (more)

21 December 2010 / 3 comments
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