The ultimate goal of their continuous support is creation of sustainable and scalable businesses within the wide range of creative industry sectors.

Since 2009 CSS have been supporting presentation of Serbian designers during the Milan Design Week first at the Salone Satellite and, then, at Zona Tortona. Together with their curator Mirko Tattarini, Professor of Strategic Design and Product Development at ISIA, Italy, Creative Space Serbia connects and establishes business relationships between Serbian designers and Serbian furniture producers in order to create a sustainable cooperation and business ventures.

In 2013 Creative Space Serbia has invited 3 established designers and selected 5 young designers to work with 5 selected companies in order to conceive a metaphorical space station, launching new Serbian talents, energies and lifestyles into the design scene.  CSS has exhibited at  the Officina – Opificio 31, via Tortona 31 (ZonaTortona), from April 9-14.  View the list of designers here.

The moving force behind this entrepreneurial activity is a dynamic group pooling together young intellectuals and art enthusiasts from all over the world. Today, 7 months after its foundation, OnFair counts more than 100 members.

With the support of each fair and its VIP organization, Onfair prepares an intense and specific program enabling its members to discover the city’s art scene in detail. OnFair’s editions include guided tours of museums and exhibitions, visits to private art collections, private meetings with prestigious artists who will explain their work and share their conception of art, cocktails in special art related locations and various other events depending on the city in which the edition takes place. Such events are meant to provide OnFair members with the unique opportunity to develop their knowledge of art and share their interests during an entire long weekend in the context of prestigious art fairs.

After its great success at FIAC 2012, and later on at Arco Madrid and MIart in 2013, OnFair’s fourth edition will take place for ArtBrussels from 18 to 21 April.

OnFair program will include a series of events:

- A private visit of the Vanhaerents Collection in presence of Mr Walter Vanhaerents;

- An exclusive tour of Brussels’ most important art spaces including Muse Program (architect Marc Corbiau’s artist residence), Argos, la Maison Particulière, Wiels and La Loge;

- A cocktail and private visit of the Gallery Paris-Beijing with the director Caroline Courly, thereby discovering one of Brussel’s famous Maison Horta while looking at Chinese artist Liu Bolin’s work;

- A night tour in Brussels’ gallery district;

- An exclusive viewing of Peter Peri’s exhibition at Agnes Rein Gallery in presence of artist Peter Peri and gallery director Jason Cori; and

- A private visit of Agnes Rein’s art collection.

Today, at the management and leadership of the various initiatives: Mercedes Lámbarri Altamira, who leads the project together with the three co-founders as of September 2012, Ilaria Sgaravato who is in charge of the communication strategy,  Olivia Farry (sponsorship and special events), Costanza Giuliani, Elica Sartogo, and Carolina Cataldi Pedrosa (e-marketing and digital strategies

Each creation of Denita is a unique piece because is impossible, as said above, create two or more identical objects and because designer care in having your own a unique piece.

However, sometimes is possible to create very similar objects using same colours and techniques in case you ask for more than one piece.

Differences can include colours shades and shapes. The pictures of the pieces show some possible creations that can be created with the same material ,so if you have an idea or a wish, contact Denita here!

It was one of the reason to celebrate it in the Graphic studio Leftloft yesterday night, that designed these custom typefaces, together with the studio Molotro.

Being asked to design a custom type family is a rather rare opportunity in Italy. The call from Corriere della Sera was exceptional for the graphic studio Leftloft that was extremely pleased when the paper’s art director, Gianluigi Colin, requested their hand in the project. Leftloft begun their work on this project  in 2004 and completed it in 2007, includes 41 weights split into four families: Brera, Brera Condensed, Solferino Display and Solferino Text.

Solferino Text has been used in the newspaper since 2007, while the rest of the text families have been officially used only recently, within the past few weeks.

The concept behind the system of typefaces is aimed at meeting both technical and formal requirements. Brera and Brera Condensed are contemporary sans serif fonts. Their open structure has been designed to reduce any horizontal stretching of the text. Solferino Display is a serif font for big type size and titles.

It’s a sort of “Scotch-Italian” alphabet whose purpose is to give the newspaper a strong personality and elegance. Solferino Text has been specially designed to allow a greater number of characters while ensuring and improving legibility. Compared to the alphabets previously in use, it has been possible to save 12 out of 100 lines of copy text.

Leftloft is an independent, graphic design company established in 1997 in Milan. Founding partners Andrea Braccaloni, Francesco Cavalli, Bruno Genovese and David Pasquali met at the Politecnico University of Milan while studying architecture and urban
planning. Here they began working on their own design projects. The studio opened a New York office in 2009 and now operates with a team of designers, each specialized in various fields, from branding to web design.

This studio has developed projects locally and internationally collaborating with some of the most important Italian companies and institutions. like Pirelli, Moleskine, Corriere della Sera, Mondadori, and many others.  In addition the partners teach design at the Politecnico University of Milan and the studio is one of the founders of the Ministero della Grafica, a cultural association promoting design culture.

She decides to move to Paris, the birthplace of his mother and where his ninety grandfather still lives. From that moment begins her journey of personal growth and deep knowledge of herself through the story that her grandfather tells her on his life, made up of suffering from prejudice and racism with which he had to face as an Italian immigrant, but also of revenge for their dream of opening a restaurant that over time had become one of the most known and appreciated in Paris, and a great love, immense, his wife Silvie, lasting for a lifetime.

Lizzy discovers that the women of her family, her mother and grandmother before then, have challenged the conventions of the world choosing for love, to go against the family rules and especially against racism: the grandmother, a member of the French nobility, for choosing to live her life with an Italian boy, setting herself against the family of origin and renouncing to the comforts of their status, the mother for choosing to leave Paris and fly to London with a musician and penniless hippie, ignoring and fighting the obstinacy of her mother, that had forgotten the battles fought at her time and unable to accept the guy who thought ill-suited to her daughter. Silvie’s suspects revealed to be correct when he abandon her daughter the day that will give birth to Lizzy, who in  Paris will begin to realize that her desire to escape is dictated from her abandonment by the father, a need to not bind to avoid before seeing the object of her love disappear.

A restaurant in the fate of his grandfather and one to Lizzy: when the French bistro of his friend Thierry enter into economic crisis, she decides to enter into partnership with him and take the reins administrative and promotional to save it and bring it to an unexpected success.

Racism and prejudice won by both of the other women in her family back in the present of Lizzy: in Paris will meet and fall in love with Yannik, a black boy, which will force her to overcome the barriers erected by her blocks against a story so much out of her mindset and especially those in the defense and protection of his heart. She discovers how strong it can be a feeling that leads someone to fight against everything and everyone, letting go and accepting within herself and in her life an involvement never experienced before. Until she starts to notice a dark side to this guy, whom she has decided to donate his heart unconditionally, that will prevent her from trusting him completely.

The sordid past of Yannik becomes for him such a source of shame to drive him to distance himself from a love so great, for which basically feels inadequate, to redeem himself and take up the reins of his life, to regain compliance of himself and to feel worthy of the woman he adores. But Lizzy discovers his terrible secret before he manages to redeem himself and finally closes their relationship.

A novel exciting and passionate teaching to reflect, to listen, to overcome prejudices, to know ourselves through the treasure of our past and listening to his voice to take valuable lesson, a family saga in which the past is intertwined with the present and all the elements reunite in a final full of twists and turns.

The novel will be achetable in every Italian library and every on these sites: www.ilfiloonline.it, www.bol.it, www.ibs.it., www.amazon.it and on every online bookstore.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Marta Lock was born in Terni in December 30, 1970. After years of clerical work decides to leave his home town to go for entertainment in villages and lives for two years abroad. After that experience, she moved to Milan where she currently lives and works as writer and editor of news for NewNotizie.it, in addition to her personal articles of L’Attimo Fuggente, on her web site www.martalock.net. Notte Tunisina, the debut novel, was released in May 2011, Quell’anno a Cuba, his second work, was published in July 2012. Ritrovarsi a Parigi is her third book.

From the very beginning, FG is committed to develop and maintain personal contact with their members to support their social and business endeavors with real solutions. FG members coming from over 90 countries in the world  are in a safe place connecting with thousands of top creative professionals, online and offline — wherever they are in the world.

As the network evolves, FG will continue to bring unlimited ressources, innovation, key services and connections to be ahead of all needs.

FG Magazine is a unique and fresh digital publication brought to you by THE FASHIONGLOBE™. The focus is on fashion, art, culture and current events. Mission is to highlight the artistic and cultural landscape of the emerging fashion community while engaging interesting individuals and supporting talents.

Thanks to built-in integration with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, it’s easy for users to maximize their reach and spread the word. They can sign-up/sign-in with Facebook and share anything with Twitter or Facebook integrated application.

Members can add their RSS feeds from external websites, blogs, or other sources to the FG Social Network. This is a great way to pull in content that other members might be interested in.

Great extensions for irresistible social functionality – live video streaming Ustream and email marketing Mail Chimp – are constantly added.

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“We want our members to connect and promote their business intelligently. Our purpose is to serve an existing international community of creative people who are overwhelmed by the number and variability of industry services. They need to find relevant information more effectively and faster: this is exactly what we offer”, says Hichem Boukhari, Founder, The FashionGlobe.

Besides its distinctive and elegant layout, the site has a number of powerful new capabilities which are essential for the modern creative professional.

“As a social platform dedicated to the creative business world we operate on three distinct sections: in the “Social Network” section we offer a space for communicating with an activity stream and a forum where members can share information, connect or find other members.

With “Metropolis” we complete our service with a unique marketplace where people post their opportunity, ask for help and find opportunities. Whether they need a graphic designer, a manufacturer or any other special contact in the industry, Metropolis works like a powerful classified tool designed specifically for the creative industry niche.

Finally, the “Directory” section provides an advanced business directory service where people can list their company and services”, explains Hichem Boukhari.

The entire site was specifically designed using SEO best practices. This detailed process ensures a high page ranking and presence on search engines; a critical need in today’s information overload.

The challenge will be finding a balance between the number of members, the amount of information and maintaining relevancy for the benefit of all.

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The collection S / S 011 offers two models in all sizes and is enhanced by a decorative detail timeless as the boss, while the automatic will replace the traditional closure.

The belt seen as the symbol of the bond between man, woman and nature, creating an emotional connection between them, through the use of an ancient and eco friendly materials.

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This interactive installation by young artist Marko Simic,  collects the interviews of important world-wide designers, which were recorded via internet. The aim is to find a possible keys for “futuro del diseño” of the international scene.

The video wall which consist 100 exclusive videos by most important designers like:  Antoni Muntadas, Ricardo Salas, Eva Lootz, Alberto Corazón, Manuel Estrada, Francisco Jarauta, and  many others. These videos are composed by 20 special visions of the design future.

See more about Marko Simic-www.markosimic.com

Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList]]> http://milanice.com/marko-simicdesign-future/1256/feed/ 0 http://milanice.com/tods-christmas-limited-edition/5314/ http://milanice.com/tods-christmas-limited-edition/5314/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:10:14 +0000 Tanja Dordevic http://milanice.com/?p=5314 For the upcoming holiday season,  Tod’s launches a limited edition collection to celebrate some of its classic designs such as the Gommino and the D Bag.

This collection is for luxury travellers looking for special and unique everyday accessories. Contemporary design combined with precious leathers and perfect embroideries make them the perfect high-end gift.

The special collection is  available at Tod’s boutiques worldwide.