Tasty Shapes

We are glad to be with two projects at PROGETTO CIBO - La forma del gusto by Beppe Finessi, exhibited in the quality MART museum in Rovereto (Trento) - investigating the multiple relations between food and design. Our Slow Wood sandwich and our pasta shaped Avventurina from our last Opuscula Miscellanea are in really good company!

Fludd Interviews / 33. Jacob Stead

A) nome / name: Jacob Stead
B) nazionalità / where are you from?: Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, although I currently live in Bristol.
C) età / how old are you?: 24.
D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Illustration, usually being a combination of traditional drawing/painting and Photoshop, but I've experimented with 3D works made from cut wood and at the moment.

TFN / Back and Forward

Some more backstage pics from our work for the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venezia. The winter blue campaign coming s o o n !

Fludd Interviews / 32. Mayumi Otero

A) prénom+nom / name: Mayumi Otero
B) nationalité / where are you from?: française / french
C) âge / how old are you?: 27 ans.
D) domaine d’intérêts et d'action / your sphere of interests: Illustration - Edition - Dessin - Peinture - Sérigraphie - Gravure... / Illustration - publishing - drawing - painting - screen printing - etching...
E) études / studies: Illustration à l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, diplômé en 2011 / Illustration at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, graduated in 2011.

Predisposing Unpredictable Events

SF + TFN = Chain Reaction / 
IMPREVEDIBILI POTENZIALI EVENTI / Making Of

A project of high quality merchandise.
Three illustrated items + a wooden panel + a contemporary Theatre.

SF+TFN = Unpredictable Potential Events

IMPREVEDIBILI POTENZIALI EVENTI

We are happy to introduce this new line of handcrafted merchandise for Teatro Fondamenta Nuove - the contemporary Theatre of Venezia, complementary to the visual communication we design for it.

3. CATALYSIS / The Kit of Pins - glossy eighties fun mixed pins +

2. ANALYSIS / The Couple of Notebooks - for your conquer plans and sharp ideas + 

1. SYNTHESIS / The Tote Bag - sturdy and spacious carrying device

= Three high detailed items where various objects are involved in (fuzzy) chain reactions.

Who Are You?

Our photo+graphic for WHO's WHO, a special theatrical program about not-out-of-the-box identities and genders, related to (not only) LGBT topics hosted by Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venezia and Teatro Momo in Mestre. The small vintage toys are always from Cate's mum precious collection.
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Here the 1st part of the main campaign for TFN. Almost ready the 2nd!

the final kaboom

* * *   H A P P Y  N E W  Y E A R   * * *

Anime Belle

Wayfarers and Friends, our migliori auguri (=best wishes) for a  

W  I  D  E  O  P   E  N  brand new 2 0 1 3 !

Things to keep, remember and protect: licorice, sage, basil, trips alone, wide-open spaces, adherence, wildness, novels, cotton candy, frankness, beards, soups, stamps and envelopes, real ice-creams, presence, sharpened pencils, research, museums, accuracy, essential oils, pudding, clean nails, interests, passion.

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Pictures via Duke University/Animated Anatomies (>check it out!).

Fludd Interviews / 31. Anna Deflorian

A) nome / name:  Anna Deflorian

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

C) età / how old are you?: 27

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Disegno, illustrazione, fumetto, e poi pittura e ceramica / Drawing, illustration, comic, plus painting and ceramic.

Breaking the Mould

We have been caught by the idea and the outputs of the vast project BREAKING THE MOULD (>To Break the mould: (expr.) to do something differently, after it has been done in the same way for a long time), relevant and promising form many points of view. Here in Venice we met the charming design collective AUT (Federico, Riccardo and Luca), the group behind the project together with Tommaso Cavallin, Chiara Onida, Anna Perugini, Dario Stellon, Matteo Stocco, Marco Zito (= 7 designers + 1 material scientist).

New Collection / The Packaging

Our last collection Opuscula Miscellanea wouldn't be complete without an opulent packaging. The origami envelope is an original double screenprint about watery geography, anatomical elements and pasta-shaped elements.

All the significant printing has been the first (and not last) collaboration with the brave Marco Tavarnesi / Inuit and his Tuscan lab.

New Collection !

OPUSCULA MISCELLANEA - Cultivated Variety / Venezia 700

"Solo nei resoconti di Marco Polo, Kublai Kan riusciva a discernere, attraverso le muraglie e le torri destinate a crollare, la filigrana d'un disegno così sottile da sfuggire al morso delle termiti.  /  Only in Marco Polo's accounts was Kublai Khan able to discern, through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing." 
Italo Calvino, Le città   invisibili / Invisible Cities, 1972 (trad. W. Weaver)

This collection features things to hang around your neck, handmade and in limited edition. Born from an atmosphere of lively decadence and anarchic vitality, harkening back to 18th century Venice, the island of quirks and delights. A celebration of formal exuberance and the eccentric spirit, embracing colours both electric and powdered. Materials that are lightweight and also sumptuous along with echoes of artisanal knowledge combined to produce varied and unusual results.

I / Things Not Yet Described

OPUSCULA MISCELLANEA - Cultivated Variety / Venezia 700

I / Cose non ancora descritte / Things Not Yet Described
#1. Cicisbeo; 2. Erbaria; 3. Lattimo; 4. Ninfa; 5. Impirarissa; 6. Dogaressa.
Tags: minimal, fluo, light, bright, magic, neat, stark.

II / Things Previously Described but Then Forgotten

OPUSCULA MISCELLANEA - Cultivated Variety / Venezia 700

II / Cose anticamente descritte e poi dimenticate / Things Previously Described but Then Forgotten
#7 Avventurina.
Tags: colourful, Murano, irregular, artisanal, rare, rich, quirky

III / Things Described by Many in Different Ways

OPUSCULA MISCELLANEA - Cultivated Variety / Venezia 700
III / Cose da altri descritte in modo diverso / Things Described by Many in Different Ways
#8. Materia Prima - Trittico 700; 9. Materia Prima - Bòcolo; 10. Querina; 11. Sprota; 12.Trabacolo
Tags: solid, classic, basic, white, statement.

Fludd Interviews / 30. Daniela Tieni

A) nome / name: Daniela Tieni

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

C) età / how old are you?: 30

D) area d'azione (disegno, pittura, fotografia, animazione, ...) / your sphere of interests: Disegno e pittura / Drawing and painting.

TFN / 1. Fall '12

Hurrah ! The campaign for the new season of the super nice Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice is on the walls! A red collection of little objects generates chain reactions of unpredictable events. A sort of polished quote of The Way Things Go (1987), by Fischli and Weiss.

Spoiler / 4. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

Frames, pages, whitenesses. With the new handmade collection (we're really close to it!) we ventured into a combinatorial game among rich white matter and geometrical structures together - as in frames and decorative stuff you can find in palaces, for example. A general kinda joyful decadence like in the 18th century. Despite all this is still the city of delight and wonder.