Fun with design: dress up the cabinet
"Dressed Cabinet" was the graduation project of the Dutch designer Puck Dieben. The high quality level was so impressive that Vij5 immediately decided to arrang...
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In London a social enterprise transforms old furniture in design
This year London Design Festival (16–24 September) will held a great collaboration between the English designer Yinka Ilori and furniture-salvaging social enter...
Happy birthday Mrs. Knoll: today she’s turning 100 years old!
Florence Knoll is 100 years old today! Her life is another beautiful fairy tale that goes through the history of design and of one of the most famous companies....
New bra prevents breast cancer
You can do analysis to find out if you have the BRCA1, the breast cancer gene. Once you discover what you can do? You can take a lifetime of tamoxifen treatment...
Charles e Ray Eames: the most beautiful love story of design
That one between Charles and Ray (Bernice Alexandra Kaiser) Eames is the most famous and beautiful love story of the history of design.
She was a painter, he...
The new series about design on Netflix
Starting from today on Netflix there is Abstract: The Art of Design, the new series dedicated to architects, photographers, designers, graphic designers and ill...
Ding: the Smart Doorbell
Timing is everything. It is probably just a coincidence but every time my doorbell rings I'm upstairs and then I have to run arriving quite never in time. This ...
My interview with Paola Navone and the new Gervasoni’s showroom in Milan
The historic Gervasoni showroom in via Durini 7, Milan has been completely renovated: the walls were literally "dug" recovering more than 55 cm for each wall. T...
Come nasce un progetto di design?
Come nasce un progetto di design? Come si può pensare il design mettendo al centro davvero le esigenze di chi lo usa? A queste e altre domande si cercherà di da...
Intervista con Margriet Vollenberg, la fondatrice di Ventura Projects
Margriet Vollenberg è l'ideatrice di Ventura Projects, nonché la fondatrice di Organisation in Design, studio di pubbliche relazioni e consulenza per il design....
Concrete Sofa: un divano in cemento
Internet è uno strumento potentissimo che fa scoprire storie bellissime. Qualche tempo fa, ho ricevuto una mail da una lettrice di Gucki che mi ha rallegrato la...
Design e dislessia
A settembre apre a Londra Dyslexic Design, una mostra che esplora la connessione tra la dislessia e la creatività. Il progetto, promosso da designjunction e in ...