Stefano Mirtis

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24/52
2012
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a personal collection
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Milan
Gurus, Radios, Hammers &
Observers (or: Italian
designers, how - digitally -
sociable are they?)
It's the first draft of a research work I did together
with Remo Ricchetti and Gioia Guerzoni. Lots of
interesting datas, lots of unknown people. Design
world is going through a fantastic paradigm shift
and few people are noticing it!

It is not about the most (digitally) sociable Italian
designers. It is about "who is a designer" and what
he/she does.
More will follow, stay tuned...
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Emeryville, CA, United States
The 22 Rules of Storytelling,
According to Pixar
This is very nice. All you need to know about
storytelling, from Pixar perspective: http://io9.
com/.../the-22-rules-of-storytelling-according
via @GemmaWent and @tbonini (Twitter)
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Museum of International Folk Art
Alexander Girard: An
Uncommon Vision
I really like Alexander Girard's works. Today there
is the opening of an exhibition on his great works.
Here is the link: http://bright-lyons.blogspot.it/...
/bright-lyons-herman
Here is a collection of some of his works: http:
//www.facebook.com/media/set/
Here is an on-line shop where you can buy (and
see) a lot of his stuff: http://www.maximodesign.
com/designer/?id=1
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RISD : Digital + Media
If Twitter Was a Building...
...it would be the @newmuseum! In Sang Un Jeon's
virtual city (tweet by @designboom).
Here the link where you can see the whole article
on this smart project: http://www.designboom.
com/.../virtual-internet-city-by
And here, Sang Un Jeon webpage (lots of nice
stuff): http://sjeon.com/Sang-Un-Jeon
Stefanos facebook timeline 24/52 2012
Art Basel
Charcoal goes design.
A new (great) work by Formafantasma.
"With its latest project, Eindhoven-based studio
Formafantasma is seeking to explore the tradition,
nostalgia and negative connotations of charcoal
burning.
While the process was once internationally
paramount, over 20th century it became widely
banned due to resulting deforestation and C02
emissions.
'We drew inspiration from the tension between the
dystopian connotation of charcoal, causing
pollution and destruction, while also being
employed in healthcare and water purification,
says Andrea Trimarchi of Formafantasma."
Keep reading at:
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Amsterdam
Foodmood (This is very
great!)
Food Mood is an interactive data visualization and
sentiment analysis tool using Twitter as a primary
data source. It is a collaborative project between
Affect Lab and the brilliant people at AI Applied
http://www.frameweb.com/.../studio-
formafantasma
A great set of images can be found at: http:
//www.dezeen.com/.../charcoal-by-
formafantasma-at.../
And here is the link to their website: http://www.
formafantasma.com/
(via @formafantasma on Twitter)
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Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre
Wide Open School
and Jana + Koos.
Using natural language processing techniques,
English-language tweets are collected and
analyzed for sentiment, location and foodstuff.
We capture, in real time, the foods that people
are tweeting about and how they feel about them.
We then add a layer of public data about
countries obesity and wealth to better understand
the global food landscape.
Take a look at: http://foodmood.in/
(via @lavecchiazza / Carlo Andrea Antonelli on
Twitter)
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Pound Ridge, NY, United States
Very Modern
Thanx to Gioia Guerzoni i found these links about
Erik Nitsche's work. Quite a fantastic designer,
indeed
Here above, his visual identity for "The New
Illustrated Library of Science and Invention": http:
//hi-and-low.typepad.com/.../02/science-
invention.html
100 international artists reinvent school:
Wide Open School is an unusual experiment in
learning with courses devised and led by over 100
artists from 40 different countries. The School is
open to everyone and begins on 11 June.
Here the link: http://wideopenschool.com/home
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Dro, Trentino
Nine by Nine, One Cage and a
Lion Tamer
Friday the 22nd, at Centrale Fies (Dro, in Trentino
region), I will be part of this curious event.
Here a little collection of some of his works: http:
//www.facebook.com/media/set/
And here some more links to Nitsche's world: http:
//www.iconofgraphics.com/Erik-Nitsche/ + http:
//blog.iso50.com/?s=Erik+Nitsche&x=0&y=0
...and here some more on this dedicated Flickr
photostream: http://www.flickr.
com/photos/eriknitsche/with/4126976291/
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Nine (very smart) designers: Giovanni Anceschi,
Anna Barbara, Giovanni Rem Caffio, Alessandro
Contini, Luca Coser, Monica Maggi, Anna Quinz,
Pino Scaglione, Bruno Simma. Plus myself trying to
tame these people and their things and their
thoughts and ideas.
Here the link to the Centrale Fies (very nice place)
website: http://www.centralefies.it/
If you are around, hope to see you there
ps. Thanks to Eleonora Odorizzi and Andrea
Miserocchi for organizing the whole thing.
A second thanks to Poco Design (for the food) and
Codice Ivan (dj set).
A second useful link (if you know Italian): http:
//www.centralefies.it/featuring_fico.html
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Hannover City
Leibniz's Cabinet (Thanks to
Vincentius Placcius)
This is supernice (thanks to Molly Wright Steenson,
via Twitter). This is the explanation:
"The cabinet was designed by Vincentius Placcius.
It had 3,000 hooks for topics, each with places
where you could hang scraps of paper with notes
pertaining to those topics.
BTW, I came across a fascinating blog on note
taking that says that Leibniz had perhaps a million
notes on scraps of paper, and owned a Placcius
cabinet. Leibniz certainly corresponded with
Placcius."
See the original (digital) image at: http://www.
hyperorg.com/.../hyperlink-aggregation-circa.../
Here another nice link on the subject: http:
//jonathan.beaton.name/archives/5382
Stefanos facebook timeline 24/52 2012
Prags Have
Spaceplates
This is another project I really like. It is a great
work by Anne Romme, a supertalented designer
from Denmark.
Here you can see it in its built version: http:
//anneromme.com/ (but most of ms Romme's
project are actually very interesting and smart).
(via Bruce Sterling on Twitter)
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Hartford, CT, United States
Clothes...
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Akademie Schloss Solitude
Myself with (Lots of) Plants
Nice portrait, thanx to Sybille Neumeyer.
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Rolex Learning Center
Learning Center
Very ambitious architecture by Sejima and
Nishizawa. I am happy I have been there, although
the overall trick wasn't completely fine and
accomplished.
Boop...
Here some more of the images I took there: http:
//www.facebook.com/media/set/
And here the official website: http:
//rolexlearningcenter.epfl.ch/
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Santa Maria delle Grazie
Santa Maria delle Grazie
To spend some time between the apses and the
cloisters of Santa Maria delle Grazie, it is always
(very) very nice.
More about this fantastic complex at: http://en.
wikipedia.org/.../Santa_Maria_delle_Grazie...