Spi—draw has eight legs, exactly like a spider, but it’s a drawing tool to play and experiment holding up to 8 felt-tip pens at the same time.

The project has been presented at the LUNA Lunga notte della ricerca / Lange Nacht der Forschung!!!

This year we had the pleasure of curating the educational program of Aiap —Italian Association for Visual Design.
Many thanks to Cinzia Ferrara, Carla Palladino and to all designers involved in the event line-up: Kasper-Florio, Milimbo, Marco Goran Romano, Luca Barcellona, Tommaso Gentile. To get further information and subscription click here.

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Progetto grafico #29 is hot from the press with the article “the imagined client” written by Gianluca Camillini and Jonathan Pierini.

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In this article we introduce the figure of the imagined client as a way of examining various areas of graphic design and seeing how the monolithic and traditionally accepted designer-client relationship has today taken on a new form. The imagined client is a character to whom we can give an identity. It is the client as we imagine them, the client we want but also a client that you cannot and no longer want to define a client: the public, your partner in crime or in need.

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This issue, among other things, features contributions by Giovanni Anceschi, Evelina Bazzo (Umbrella), Marco Benvegnù (Arper),Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Marianne Burki (Pro Helvetia), Juliette Cezzar (Parsons School of Design), Stefano Coletto (Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa), Giovanni De Mauro (Internazionale), Stefano Faoro (Jan van Eyck Academie), Davide Fornari, Jo Frenken (Jan van Eyck Academie), Steven Heller (School of Visual Arts NYC), Kido Hideyuki (DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion), Antonio Cesare Iadarola, Krisis Publishing, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Veronica Maccari, Julien Mercier, Armand Mevis (Werkplaats Typografie), NORM (www.norm.to), YuJune Park (Parsons School of Design ), Luciano Perondi, Jonathan Pierini, Mark Porter, Project Projects, R2 design, Christina Reble (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich), Giorgio Ruggeri, Silvia Sfligiotti, Adrian Shaughnessy (Royal College of Art), Leonardo Sonnoli, Mariko Takagi, Lita Talarico (School of Visual Arts NYC), Laurent Ungerer (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), Carlo Vinti, Huib Haye van der Werf (Jan van Eyck Academie)

For further info click here.

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Dal 24 al 26 Febbraio Gianluca presenterà la sua ricerca sul libro bullonato di Fortunato Depero nell’ambito di “Fare ricerca in design” presso lo IUAV di Venezia.

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From 24th to 26th of February, Gianluca will present his research about Depero’s bolted book within “Fare ricerca in design” symposium at the IUAV of Venice.

Iniziamo il 2016 parlando di Depero Futurista (per gli amici bullonato) sulle pagine di TipoItalia #3.
Protagonisti del numero sono i disegnatori e i caratteri che hanno plasmato la comunicazione grafica italiana del Novecento. Tra tutti, si staglia la figura di Alessandro Butti, cui è dedicato anche l’inserto in letterpress stampato con caratteri origianli Nebiolo, creati da Butti stesso, da Archivio Tipografico (Torino).
In questo numero, appaiono articoli di: Gianluca Camillini, Massimo Chiabrando, James Clough, Alessandro Colizzi, Alessio D’Ellena, Riccardo De Franceschi, Akira Kobayashi, Robin Nicholas, Lucio Passerini, Michele Patanè, Luciano Perondi, Claudio Rocha, Enrico Tallone, Carlo Vinti.
Per richiedere copia della rivista: museo@tipoteca.it

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We welcome the new year writing about Depero Futurista, also known as the bolted book, on the pages of TipoItalia Magazine #3.
TipoItalia features designers and letterform of 20th-century Italy: Butti, Reggiani, Novarese, Frassinelli, Simoncini and Depero. The cover of TipoItalia and letterpress-printed insert by Archivio Tipografico are dedicated to Alessandro Butti.
In this issue of TipoItalia there are articles written by Gianluca Camillini, Massimo Chiabrando, James Clough, Alessandro Colizzi, Alessio D’Ellena, Riccardo De Franceschi, Akira Kobayashi, Robin Nicholas, Lucio Passerini, Michele Patanè, Luciano Perondi, Claudio Rocha, Enrico Tallone, Carlo Vinti.
Further info and to get a copy: museo@tipoteca.it

Sul treno di ritorno dalla settimana della grafica appena conclusa Mister Gatto sfoglia il nuovo numero di Progetto grafico sul tema “pubblicare”.
All’interno troverete anche “Oltre il libro”, un approfondimento sull’editoria indipendente italiana scritto da Gianluca assieme al prezioso contributo di coloro che con l’editoria ci vivono.
Dunque grazie a: Print About Me (Stefano Rbi), Spazio bk (Chiara Bottani e Diletta Colombo), Fruit Exhibition (Anna Ferraro), Thisisnotpaper (Saul Marcadent), Lazy Dog Press (Riccardo Bello), Automatic Books (Tank boys), Rorhof (Nicolò Degiorgis).

Infine grazie anche a Margherita che ha scarabocchiato l’articolo. Buona lettura!

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On the way back from the graphic design week, Mister Gatto is reading the last Progetto grafico issue about the topic of “publishing”, in which you can find “Beyond the book”: an analysis of the independent publishing research in Italy. Written by Gianluca together with the collaboration of the following professionals engaged in the editorial scene.
Therefore, many thanks to: Print About Me (Stefano Rbi), Spazio bk (Chiara Bottani e Diletta Colombo), Fruit Exhibition (Anna Ferraro), Thisisnotpaper (Saul Marcadent), Lazy Dog Press (Riccardo Bello), Automatic Books (Tank boys), Rorhof (Nicolò Degiorgis).

Finally, thanks also to Margherita, who scribbled all around the article. Enjoy!

Image from bibliotecha