Design&Trends
In recent decades, design has contaminated a number of sectors of creative work. This series focuses on the scenarios of future trends, investigating their infinite expressive potential through issues of contemporary relevance and discussions with international designers. A window on the future, to understand and describe how much the world of design is changing, from techniques to new materials, from interiors to installations, from experimentation to contamination with art. In the final analysis, a section all about forecasting and trendsetting in design.
26-12-2022
London’s Design Museum offers a new exhibition about ASMR: the world of oddly pleasant sensations
Have you ever felt a pleasant thrill run down your spine when listening to a particular piece of audio or video? This sensation is known as ‘ASMR’, and it boasts a world of multimedia production enjoyed by millions of people online. The exhibition ‘Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR’ - presented by the Design Museum in London in collaboration with ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for...
22-12-2022
JoeVelluto, the Buddhist path to design
Buddha, who experienced the reawakening of consciousness, has something to say to us about design, beginning with his Noble Eightfold Path: eight forms of behaviour to put into practice in order to achieve happiness - or at least come closer to it. Designers Andrea Maragno and Sonia Tasca, founders of JoeVelluto Studio, have translated the Path into a vision and a series of...
19-12-2022
Olafur Eliasson: time returned, between light and shade
Palazzo Strozzi in Florence hosts a major exhibition of the work of the visionary and highly popular Icelandic-Danish artist, entitled ‘Nel tuo tempo’. The title is in Italian rather than English because Olafur Eliasson chose to use the Italian language to directly and specifically express the concept inspiring all his work: that the purpose of art is to restore our consciousness of...
16-12-2022
Design and Healing: humanity reacts to the pandemic. A retrospective at the Cooper Hewitt
The Cooper Hewitt in New York inaugurated an exhibition in December exploring how humanity has responded to the crisis and emergency of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost three years after it began. The exhibition, open until the tenth of February 2023, represents the first post-pandemic attempt to look at creativity and design as tools for responding to...