Glory Hole Los Angeles 2010

of design and designers


"The mica is not difficult to design beautiful things, is to prevent the other sputtanino you ..." Marcel Just, the head of the studio where I work, he explains his view of the design before the proposal received by the graphics just about to enter the market one of our project. The draft in question was indeed a reprehensible example of advertising image produced by a few innocent employee, who has obviously had to improvise chart to save two cents from their boss. The result is that a significant design project is badly damaged in the bud for the same sample and the failure of two children dressed in the 60s that should encourage their peers to buy at least through an image disturbing. Difficult to give wrong Marcel. Marcel

But what would he think if he knew of design in Italy, still considered by many (wrongly, I would say) the home of creativity, industrial design studies themselves do not exist or so, and the environment of product design is composed entirely of professionals, who are among a restructuring of flat and the other, they find the time to draw two sinks or at least a set of dishes. The only exceptions are some university professor, than relying on the academic salary is pursuing a personal study to park a couple of interns at a time. You will understand that the world center of design.

Marcel if he knew what would he think that in Italy the permanent contract no longer exists, replaced by the flexibility of external support, shameful example of how politics can make a generation of professionals in the precarious life. Maybe Marcel would have to think of Frank, one of our senior designer, that the threshold of forty years has decided to resign to make the self-employed, with two young daughters and a mortgage. Perhaps, as Frank does not look like an inconsiderate, where there is more respect for the professionals, there are more opportunities? Perhaps Marcel

concerns the graphical unworthy, and would feel better.

Broken Capillaries In Breasts

Het Wilde Westen (the wild west) The


Last Saturday was the day of discovery: a group of friends organized a trip with a lot of driving in the neighborhood west of the city, one that begins around my house, among other things. The group, composed of a dozen assorted rotterdamesi thirties, would not let me escape language with the guide, which I have not heard to ask a language more familiar to me, so I resigned myself to guess the meaning of explanations relying on my thirty words available, but then let me sum up all in English by a friend willing . I must say that we are fortunately in a variety of pains to do so, and so now I know that a few steps from my house there is a monument to the memory of German bombs, a windmill stood, and then restored a couple of sites that promise architectures Futuristic within a year, and a long series of carefully preserved historic buildings and full of fascinating stories. The tour then continued with a careful examination of the premises in the area, making a detour meticulous in all of them for a beer or two. Considering that it started at two in the afternoon and finished late at night, and that the premises were more than a decade, one can easily imagine how happy I was to find a few steps from home, without the hassle of having to drive.

The evening also offered me the chance to see a folk singer in the area, with a typically local sent the audience into raptures of the pub with a selection of traditional pieces played strictly with the basics, singing in the crowd in a bath of crowd itself. For the record, the average age of regular patrons exceeded not just the olive Mediterranean, he was going to think that the enthusiasm was due to the hormones of puberty in turmoil ... Not being able to sing loudly as the other delicious valzeroni by Tyrolean ski lodge, I had to settle for eating a hood in front of the local mussels, served by a friendly elderly cook, clerk aperitif. This does not, however, prevented me to let me take pictures with the heroic singer, so I invite you to visit the album of photos for details.