undefined warplay video

Found today the video we did with Midori Yamada as final presentation for Undefined Warplay. It is rough cut and LD, but I still like it! Have a look.

ukulele

Very interesting project of a laser cut ukulele to be folded and transported as a briefcase designed by Brian Chan. The kit is available on ponoko. via Designboom

Le voci di Marrakech

tratto da “Le voci di Marrakech – note di un viaggio”, Adelphi 2002 (traduzione italiana a cura di Bruno Nacci)[...] “Nei suk invece il prezzo che viene detto per primo è un enigma inafferrabile. Nessuno lo conosce in anticipo, neppure il commerciante, perché di prezzi ce ne sono moltissimi, a seconda delle circostanze. Ciascuno di [...]

Cut! Coltelli fatti a mano a Brooklyn

Secondo Episodio molto interessante dalla serie Made by Hand che si concentra sulla crescente scena dei makers. The Knife Maker segue Joel Bukiewicz al lavoro, a Cut Brooklyn, dove produce coltelli professionali incredibili.

indie capitalism

Following up from the previous post on CUT, here is a more theoretical take on the makers movement and what Bruce Nussbaum calls Indie Capitalism. In his article “4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent” he suggests that: If you spend time in Bushwick, Brooklyn, or on Rivington Street in [...]

Bananas

In a supermarket in Finland I spotted this scale used for self weighting of the vegetables and fruit. In Italy most of those have a visual representation of the thing you should wait beside the number. Here is a much less cluttered solutions, but it looks like users were making mistakes between bananas!

The improover live.

I find myself observing and thinking a lot about how to changhe things around me. It’s probably part of my mindset as a designer. Livialein one day told me: you should call yourself ‘the improover’. We laughed and we finally thought it was a good idea. So I am starting to blog some of my list [...]

Cut! New York Knife maker.

Very interesting second episode of the Made by Hand series of videos on the growing makers scene. The Knife Maker follows the work of Joel Bukiewicz at Cut Brooklyn where he produces amazing professional knives.