Москва́ / 1

Bits of our special trip in Moscow !   / Part 1 - Textures and Patterns /

" ... Corre un filo invisibile che allaccia un essere vivente a un altro per un attimo e si disfa, poi torna a tendersi tra punti in movimento disegnando nuove rapide figure cosicché a ogni secondo la città infelice contiene una città felice che nemmeno sa d'esistere" / "... There runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns...

Eggs

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. (Bruce Nauman)

* * * Buona Pasqua / Happy Easter !  * * *

Leave No Stone Unturned

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.  (Paracelsus)

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Zang, frrrrr, taratatatatata, trak trak, pic-pac-pum-tumb, grang-grang, crooc-craaac ! 

After a while, fresh & spring items are ready!  Novel colours like Bewitched Tree, Mystical Green, Light Heart Blue, Silly Fizz, Brain-Sand, Magic Powder, True Blush !  /  Evolution, Stark, Trittico and Triplicazione are new and improved versions of Materia Prima, because we think everybody needs a Philosopher's Stone at the neck, just for smoothing daily transformations and hard life tasks. Hope you like it.

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Find yours on Etsy and in our brand NEW SHOP !

Atlas

Let's introduce our new Tumblr - just a visual lab. Something old something new something borrowed something blue.
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It's worth a (unfortunately virtual) visit: G. Didi-Huberman's Atlas exhibition, just closed in Madrid. Take a look. ...Inspiring. We totally agree.

Life's About Shades

« Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, / And bathed / every veyne in swich licour / Of which vertu engendred is the flour » * 
(G. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, XIVc.)
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Spring is springing here! New products at the door ! How do you feel? This is the season of questions and shadings and ferment.

Dust of

Today here is the last Carnival day. Yeah, a bit decadent and melancholic but we still and always love confetti (=coriandoli, in Italian)! High-sugary mood continues here. More about its meaning here. Enjoy your mask!  /  Extra link for the International Women's Day.

Banana+Fish=Graphic.

This is Caterina's graphic project for her personal identity and self-promotion as an illustrator.
She drew one-of-a-kind business cards and a correspondence set (personalized envelopes + stickers with her initials). The starting inspiration could be located in the mood of J.D. Salinger's short story  "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". But who knows.

Matter matters / 2

Towards new pieces - part 2. Other pics of the latest experiments. Oh, what fun. Little molecules are so whimsical !
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"Providing meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting". (Paul Rand)

Matter matters / 1

Towards new pieces - part 1. Meditations on matter (and anti-matter?). Materials and other funny things.
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"Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physician should not be influenced by such judgements". (Paracelsus)

Fludd Interviews / 16. Umberto Mischi

A) nome / name:  Umberto Mischi
B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Italia / Italy.

C) età / how old are you?: 23.

D) area d'azione / your sphere of interests: Illustrazione, Graphic design. / Illustration, Graphic design.

Magnetic sights

Tediati dai soliti souvenirs turistici? Questa è la collezione di magneti dipinti a mano presentati in occasione della piccola mostra collettiva Vicenza città bellissima, curata da Stefania Portinari nello Spazio Cogollo detto Casa del Palladio. Semplicemente oggetti estetici per rievocare le bellezze architettoniche della palladiana bianca Vicenza dopo la visita, che giocano sulla riduzione geometrica di sei tra i maggiori edifici della città: Teatro Olimpico, Basilica Palladiana, Palazzo Chiericati, Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, Villa Capra detta la Rotonda, Duomo. Buona gita! / This is the small magnetic collection we presented in the collective design exhibition Vicenza città bellissima - collecting designers' proposals for alternative souvenirs and memoriabilia dedicated to the beautiful white city of Palladio: Vicenza - UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994.

Invisible Cities / 2. Surface

After the first instalment, more pictures by us - tuned to mood, themes and presences living in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities / Le città invisibili.   

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pag. 33
"Così - dice qualcuno - si conferma l'ipotesi che ogni uomo porta nella mente una città fatta soltanto di differenze, una città senza figure e senza forma, e le città particolari la riempiono" /  "This - some say - confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up."

Invisible Cities / 1. Structure

 

If (lucky you) you haven't yet read* the Italo Calvino's masterpiece Invisible Cities / Le città invisibili (1972):
1. please, do it.
2. enjoy our quotes and images. 

*If you have done it: the same (1.+2.)
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All pictures are taken by us during the last Architecture Biennale of Venezia, hosted in the Giardini/Gardens and in the gorgeous spaces of the Arsenale (the huge former shipyard of Venezia), whereas the faceted wooden pieces are made by us.

Flowery

Lo scorso autunno abbiamo ri-dipinto la camera di Irene. Eccola. Duro lavoro, gioco di squadra e discreto divertimento! Altre immagini qui. / Last Autumn we re-painted Irene's bedroom. Lot of work, team-game and fun.

Tireless Wishes

...Wishing you loads of used-up pencils, handwritten letters, Italian ice-creams, well-wrapped gifts, sudden rainbows, inspiring trips, uncontrollable creativity, simple happiness, genuine love during the next NEW year - let's try to do our best ! 

* * * AUGURI ! * * *

2° Mercatino per Té

Some frames from the second edition of our Mercatino per Té - the Christmas home-made sale and tea party. Thanks to our special chef for creative refreshments and to fun friends who joined us!

Senior Interview / 2. Hanna Konola

She is from the Great North (mhh...good start), she has a great taste, a sound sense of line and balance. Her work is sharp and cute at the same time, and so inspiring for ours. The second Senior Interview is to Miss Hanna Konola, known Helsinki based artist - enjoy!

SF: Five words to describe your childhood... ?

Crystal Xmas

Studio Fludd is really honored to participate in the super-belle Christmas sale by the talented girls of Atelier Beau Travail, based in Belleville/Paris. This time the subject is "crystals &co.". Some pics from our correspondent.

Fludd Interviews / 15. Piero Martinello

A) nome / name: Piero Martinello

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Italy

C) età / how old are you?: 25

D) area d'azione / your sphere of interests: Photography.

Fludd Senior Interview / 1. Morteza Zahedi

He is brilliant, he has a sensitive view and an extremely personal touch, he's from Iran, he paints and draws and makes book and attends worldwide exhibitions. Of course he's Morteza Zahedi and he's also extremely kind, in fact thanks to him we start our series of Senior Interviews, hosting remarkable creative personalities. Enjoy!

SF: Five words to describe your childhood... ?