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.
07-11-2022
Filmmak-Her, an exhibition about women in film, combining the seventh art with the art of illustration
16 October saw the opening of Filmmak-Her, an exhibition paying tribute to women filmmakers through illustration. The association 24FPS asked nine Italian women illustrators to portray twenty-four female filmmakers – from Alice Guy-Blaché to Laura Samani – painting not only their faces, but their poetics, their careers, and the political and social transformations that affected...
03-11-2022
Service design: designing interaction. The Design Group Italia experience
Service design could open up a new niche in the design disciplines. Creation of complex interface systems supporting networks for sales or financial services, for medical treatment or providing information, is a growing discipline of decisive importance for improving the lives of people and enterprises, according to the Italian service design pioneers of Design Group...
31-10-2022
Ask me if I believe in the future: an exhibition about optimism at MK&G in Hamburg
How would we like to change the future? What ideas, questions and strategies do designers require in order to come up with visions of a better future, and produce applicable solutions? Ask Me if I Believe in the Future is the title of an exhibition that closed on October 23 answering the questions Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe put to curator and critic Maria Cristina Didero, who...
27-10-2022
Design that unites: Yinka Ilori’s colourful metaphors
An exhibition in London celebrates the joyful and inclusive style of Yinka Ilori, a British designer and artist of Nigerian origin who has brought a breath of optimism and positivity to the world of design with his surprising installations centring around pure colours and exuberant graphics, some of which have been applied to urban spaces such as pedestrian...