We will attend the Signs third edition, the event celebrating contemporary Italian graphics. The exhibition, which showcases the works of a selection of 12 designers, is held in Milan, during BIG – Biennale Internazionale Grafica and in Turin, during Graphic Days. On show will be our projects for: Alcor, Banca Widiba, Buromilan, Comune di Milano, Missoni, Mogg, Corraini Edizioni, Hukapan, Teco.
The exhibition Oggetto Libro, organized by Susanna Vallebona, shows the comparison between book design and artist’s book. The jury, composed by members from Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Mediateca Santa Teresa and from Aiap, selected 40 design books among 200 proposals. Between this selection there’s also our book see nothing volume due, which has been exhibited and published on the prestigious exhibition’s catalogue.
We are invited to represent Perriand’s work in a poster for the exhibition Il segno del moderno, a tribute to Charlotte Perriand, edited by RovaiWeber design. This work takes place in Le Murate di Firenze, with other posters made by 11 italian designers.
After Milan and Madrid (2007), Istanbul (2010), Pechino e Nantou (2010), Bilbao, San Francisco and Santiago del Cile (2013), the exhibition Il nuovo design italiano managed by La Triennale di Milano Design Museum with the supervision of Silvana Annicchiarico, arrives in Cape Town during the Cape Town World Design Capital 2014. The exhibition shows the works of 133 Italian designers (including 20 graphic designer) which represent the state of contemporary italian design. We are glad to be part of this world tour with our projects.
We take part in the Contemporary Italian Social and Cultural Communication Design exhibition (Trento), as part of the Piccolo Festival dell’Arte, with two of our designs on display there. The exhibition assembles a selection of posters designed by the most famous and innovative Italian graphic designers, and aims to focus on the social and cultural commitment aspect and visual communication.
During Design Shanghai 2013, Triennale Design Museum presents Italy: The New Aesthetic Design, a reconnaissance of contemporary Italian design of the new millennium. Some of our designs are exhibited, including the merchandising produced in recent years for Elio e le Storie Tese.
Triennale Design Museum presents an expanded and updated to 2013 version of the exhibition The New Italian Design: a survey on contemporary Italian design, a path analysis, enhancement and promotion of the new Italian creativity. The exhibition presents works by 132 designers, including some album covers that we realized in recent years for Elio e le Storie Tese.
We are invited by Carmi e Ubertis to attend to boxing design, encounter/clash between culture and innovation organized by Dalia Gallico during the IF Innovation Festival.
In April, an exhibition entitled The Hand of the Graphic Designer open to the public. It is promoted by FAI – Italy’s National Trust. The original idea is by Francesca Serrazanetti and Matteo Schubert, who coordinate the initiative with scientific supervision from Pietro Corraini. We are among the 108 prominent contemporary graphic designers from all over the world who donated sketches to the campaign. All of the drawings are meant to be auctioned off or sold directly, and the proceeds will be used to help pay for maintenance work at Villa Necchi Campiglio and the restoration of a number of old books from Masino Castle’s historical library.
Two of our projects are shiwn at The Best of Contemporary Italian Social and Cultural Graphic Design exhibition. Organised by Cristina Chiappini and Sasha Sankova, the exhibition takes part in the official programme for the Year of Russian Culture and Language in Italy and the Year of Italian Culture and Language in Russia – 2011, summoned by the Italian and Russian Ministries of Culture. The designs on display, created by 36 selected Italian designers and studios, intend to mirror the contemporary visual language of Italy.
We take part in the Italian Poster Rock Art exhibition which take place in May at the Villa Pacchiani Multipurpose Cultural Centre in Santa Croce sull’Arno, in the province of Pisa, with a number of designs created by our studio for the band Elio e Le Storie Tese over the last few years.
150_150_150 is an exhibition organised by Mario Piazza to celebrate the anniversary of the unification of Italy. 150 graphic designers were asked to design an image with the number 150 as its theme. The end result, which also included our own design, was a huge exhibition which became a collective reflexion of images representing what our country is today, conveying both its good and bad qualities.
two of our projects are included in the spaghetti grafica 2 – contemporary italian graphic design show. this is a large-scale exhibition of italian graphic design, 125 projects from 95 studios selected among those that presented projects for the second round of proposals to ministero della grafica and the triennale design museum.
during the 23rd international biennale of graphic design brno 2008, an international jury awarded the icograda excellence award to our project see nothing volume due. the submissions for the international competition include works by nearly 400 artists; and 162 artists from 27 countries were selected. our project was awarded for its perfect achievement, a design with supranational impact, compact, complex and conceptual.
the opening of the new italian design – il paesaggio mobile del nuovo design italiano, takes place at the triennale di milano in january.
the exhibition pursues the intent to expolre the state of the art of design by analysign the new Italian design. our studio’ work is selected from 600 candidates and displayed at the exhibition with other 124 designers’ creations, spanning across all the design segments.
our book see nothing volume due was selected from aiap (associazione italiana per la progettazione visiva) to partecipate in the aiap community contest which is open to graphics and designers and wants to identify the best italian communicaiton projects.
among the other 50 participants our work was presented in aosta during the association’s annual congress.
the show “alba. nuovi manifesti italiani” opened in firenze during the festival della creatività, is produced by socialdesignzine with intellectual and financial sponsorship from aiap and regione toscana. by presenting over a hundred posters created in italy after the year 2000, the show aims to recognise the current status of the poster art. some of our projects are displayed with the works of other 42 graphics selected as being among the most representative in the national scene.
pecha-kucha night was born in tokyo in 2003, as design-themed evening. artists, architects and graphic designers are invited to present to the audience their creations and ideas by displaying 20 slides for 20 seconds each.
to celebrate the first pecha-kucha evening in milan, hosted by the triennale bovisa we were invited to talk about our projects, with internationally renowned designers and architects such as patricia urquiola and astrid piber by un-studio.
four of our projects are selected and displayed at the 22nd international biennale of graphic design 2006 in brno, among the world’s most qualified graphic art, event where projects, opinions and trends meet and compare.
the selected works are about posters designed for the contemporary art shows america remixed and salon de refusés as well as promotional material created for our studio.
the poster that we designed in 2004 inform clients of our new address, was exhibited at the second international design biennale organised by hanyang university (corea) and promoted by icograda (international council of graphic design association).
the project was also included in the biennale’s catalogue.
the open-air display posterama is organised on streets of brussels during the europalia biennial festival of arts and culture. between mid-september and late october 2003 more than 800 italian posters designed for several cultural events had been bill-boarded by the streets of the town.
our studio participated by designing a poster for the contemporary art shows americas remixed and salon de refusés.
on the occasion of the atypi (association typografique internationale) conference held in rome, aiap organised an exhibition called italic 1.0 – il disegno di caratteri contemporaneo in italia. three of our font designs are selected and showed in the exhibition along with the works of 25 italian type designers. the event’s catalogue is edited by aiap edizioni.
the city of milan organizes an international pitch for the brand identity design of la fabbrica del vapore. la fabbrica will become the meeting point for young milanese artists. our project is awarded for merit and shown in the exhibition organized for the opening.
albachiara and the association of illustrators organize illustracinema, a design contest for giuseppe piccioni and silvio soldini’s new movie posters. our project is selected and is featured in the exhibition at the anteo spaziocinema in milan.
our corporate identity and self-promotional brochure are selected and shown at the 18th international biennale of graphic design in brno (czech republic).