Fludd Interviews / 20. Sarah Mazzetti

A) nome / name: Sarah Mazzetti

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: italiana / Italian

C) età / how old are you?: 26

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: disegno e affini / drawing  and related.

Morocco / 2. Bits and Pieces

More pictures from Morocco. About decoration, that marvelous sense of weaving, eternal narration based on hypnotic complexity. More images here.

"Ogni cosa si muove nella liscia pagina senza che nulla se ne veda, senza che nulla cambi sulla sua superficie, come in fondo tutto si muove e nulla cambia nella rugosa crosta del mondo, perché c’è solo una distesa della medesima materia, proprio come il foglio su cui scrivo, una distesa che si contrae e raggruma in forme e consistenze diverse e in varie sfumature di colori, ma che può pur tuttavia figurarsi spalmata su di una superficie piana,

Morocco / 1. Spontaneous Graphic

 From our last trip in Morocco (love it!). More pictures on our Flickr, soon.

Senior Interview / 3. Hernán Paganini

We're happy to interview mr. Hernán Paganini, kaleidoscopic multidimensional artist from Argentina. He teaches as graphic designer at the Public Buenos Aires University since 2003. His online portfolio is a mine of succulent suggestions. Mixed materials, coloured nature and curious wooden ideas - let's discover this energetic wonderboy !
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SF) Ciao ! Five words to describe your childhood? / Cinque parole per descrivere la tua infanzia?
HP) Love, freedom, awakening, fantasy, dreams.

Im pressive

Some printing artists we are looking at.
From the top: Enciclopedia#0 by Strane Dizioni. After: Colors (Strictly Hip Hop) by Annette Knol; Strane Dizioni; I musicanti di Brema by Katrin Stangl / Corraini; Strane Dizioni. To follow: K. Stangl; Strane Dizioni; K. Stangl; Domain Names 2010—2001 by Rafaël Rozendaal / Automatic Books.
More pics on our Flickr !

Arabian Song

Hey! A Fludd's delegation is leaving for ten days to Morocco. So good. See you soon ! > this is the mood: Arabian Song, Franco Battiato 1980.

Fludd Interviews / 19. Adriano MacDonald Valeri

A) nome / name: Adriano Macdonald Valeri

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Italiano + American

C) età / how old are you?: 24

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Pittura principalmente, disegno e talvolta mi servo anche della fotografia. / Painting mainly, but I draw, and sometimes I take photographs.

Collective Painting

This is the winning graphic of the 95th exhibition of young artists of Bevilacqua la Masa  - a contemporary artistic foundation in Venice. Caterina did it, StudioFludd chose it, Alberto experienced it during his graduation party last October. Academy of Fine Arts, painting and further dirty stuff. The prize will be devoted to a trip in January  :-) 

The Country of the Blind

"L'avventura è una faccenda troppo seria per lasciarla in mano agli uomini / Adventure is a too serious matter to be left to men." (Venexiana Stevenson, from Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt)

Venice, again. Following faint trails of alchemic, hermetic past. This floating city has an unbelievable golden church built by pirates during the sixth century. It's a mixture of everything, it's a huge crux of the matter.

Handbook of Fantastic Zoology

Venezia: Where the Wild Things Are. In the shady background, beyond the dust of tourists viavai (to-ing and fro-ing). Not the cutest beasts, just a few ones met along the way from our place, Castello, to st. Mark square, going through the Arsenal.

Fludd Interview / Focus On #1/ It's Raining Elephants

Girls just wanna have fun and give life to vivid works. We stumbled across these brilliant duo in the wide world of the web, since then we are quite elephant addicted. Signore e signori meet It's Raining Elephants alias Nina Wehrle + Evelyne Laube, Berlin based, from where the milk-chocolate, red-cross, esoteric-bank and great-graphic things are.   +) In addition, a little Focus On a particular project - this time we choose the sophisticated illustrations they made for The Grosse Flut / The Great Flood. The book speak by itself, but we have to say that it gained a Special Mention at Ilustrarte (Portugal) and it's a finalist of the 4th Picture book awards (Korea). Well done! 

0: Who are you?
N: Nina Wehrle, 27, illustrator, swiss accent, dracula tooth, elephant & mouse.
E: My name is Evelyne Laube. I work with Nina Wehrle together under the name "It's Raining Elephants" as an illustrator. I am interested in drawing as a permanent process of observing and interviewing. I work with the material that I have and that I am. I love to work with my hands and to play around and to see what comes out of it. With Nina work is very fun. Sometimes we work very systematically and sometimes we break all rules.

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

G. draws / 3. Nasty Beasts

3rd part) G. is for Giovanni. He drawn, he draws. We are periodically showcasing some works of him as 6 and 7 years-old whimsical guy.

Fludd Interviews / 18. Andrea Mongia

A) nome / name: Andrea Mongia

B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Italia / Italy

C) età / how old are you?: 22

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Illustrazione, disegno, pittura, incisione / Illustration, drawing, painting, engraving.

The Magic Pyramid / Wunderkammer / 7+8+9+10 /

* * * The Wunderkammer Series * * *

Materia Prima n.7+8+9+10: Nigredo (Blackness), Albedo (Whiteness), Citrinitas (Yellowness) and Rubedo (Redness) - made by 4 sophisticated manufactures, inspired by the 4 stages of Matter in perpetual transformation. Changing moods, for every type, season, cardinal point. Don't forget to take the TEST.

The Magic Pyramid / Primary Series / 4+5+6 /

Our solid & basic Materia Prima. Models number 4 and 5 and 6 - respectively Y (as Yellow - rich mustard), M (as Magenta - intense rust) and C (as Cyan - deep ultramarine). The triadic primary colour scheme - the pure impact of the colours, the shades of the light. Deviant Bauhaus. It is what it is.

NEW ! Introducing the Magic Pyramid / 1+2+3

Ta-dan !  Et voilà, finally, our new Materia Prima Collection FW 2011 - Cose Naturali e Segrete. Our wooden crystal a.k.a. the Philosopher's Stone evolves in 10 new and improved models and unstable stages of Matter that made the Magic Pyramid (1+2+3+4). Quirky alchemy + lot of fun !
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Here:
1. AETHER - Sidereal pale yellow (glow in the dark !)
2. MERCURIUS & 3. SULPHUR - Bubblegum pink with grey-blue veins, or vice versa 

-3 / Cosmogony

New Materia Prima Collection FW 2011 - Very Limited Edition / Preview & Backstage.

* * * Almost here ! * Available from 7th November * * *

" Heaven, heaven's bodies / Whirl around me make me wonder / They say back then our universe was a coal black egg  / Until the god inside burst out and from its shattered shell /

-7 / Cose Naturali e Segrete

/   NEW Materia Prima Collection - FW 2011   /   Countdown  / 

Our Materia Prima evolves in a Magical Pyramid made by 10 unstable and primeval stages of matter,  in 4 different series with multiple personalities. / Do you feel like unsure about choosing? Let yourself be helped by our special Stream-of-Consciousness TEST (download it!). Fate knows you better. 

 * * * Available in 7 days - on 7th November 2011 * * *

Stay tuned !

Pelodrilli

A few shots from our fitting in Spazio Pelodrilli, Treviso - a new creative space for handmade and young design ideas. We projected and realized all the cardboard furniture and a big white balloon cloud for the opening party in September.