If you are a true design lover, one of your favourite hobbies is probably searching for events, fairs and manifestations around Italy and Europe, where you can find new industry trends and marvel at...
Materials / Lighting technology
DESIGN EVENTS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS IN 2017
Materials / Lighting technology
JOURNEY THROUGH THE KARMAN ZOO, WHERE THE ANIMALS COME TO LIFE, THRILL AND DRESS UP IN LIGHT
The first was Marnìn, an appliqué shaped like a moose from the white mantle dressed in dreams. Then gradually other nice-looking animals with funny names began to populate the Karman zoo, a cheerful...
5 STAR HOTEL? ABSOLUTELY NOT, TODAY DESIGN AND LUXURY ARE FOUND IN HOSTELS
Forget the old dumps with bunk beds, promiscuous environments and shared bathrooms. Hostels are not as they used to be and now they have become chic environments, areas with very scrupulous...
Materials / Retail / Lighting technology
KARMAN ILLUMINATES THE CENTRAL MARKET IN ROME
The Central Market, since 2014, a florentine election place including gastronomic, art and cultural tradition, on October 5 inaugurated its own personal model of a city market in Rome, exploring a...
RECYCLED FASHION: WHEN WASTE BECOMES FASHION
As Milan prepares to welcome fashion week, an international event with more than 70 runway shows full of luxury and creativity, high fashion also discovers a “green" soul, dedicated to creative...
FASHION DISCOVERS NEW MATERIALS
The fashion industry experiments with new textiles, with an eye on the environment and recycling. After the traditional organic cotton, bamboo and hemp, it is taking another step forward, testing...
HIKARU DORODANGO: SHINING MUD
To paraphrase Fabrizio De Andrè, if nothing grows from diamonds, spheres as shiny as diamonds can grow from mud. Hikaru Dorodango literally means "to make mud shine": it is a Japanese art form in...
THE ART OF MARBLER
The Art of Marbler is a British educational film from 1970 offering an in-depth look at paper marbling, a centuries-old technique used to create incredible visual effects. As soon as the film begins,...