Best way to wish you Buona Pasqua?
With this big huge yellow chick designed by LORA LAMM the famous Swiss graphic star in 1958 when she was in-house graphic designer and creative at the LA RINASCENTE, the iconic Italian department store in Piazza del Duomo in Milano.
Buona Pasqua Buona Pasqua Buona Pasqua
Today is the last day to visit the Centre Pompidou before it closes for five years for renovations. Designed in the 70’s by two young unknown architects, the Italian RENZO PIANO and the British RICHARD ROGERS it was officially opened on 31 january 1977.
And it was a shock! “Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness” said the French magazine Le Figaro, “Notre Dame des Tuyaux“, “Centre Mochebourg“, “Oil refinery” were some of the nick-names but at the end it was a popular success with more than 200 million visitors since 1977.
And it was a shock even for me the first time I visited Paris.
It was at night, the Piazza was deserted and I saw an alien spaceship landed in the heart of the city, was I living in a sci-fi movie?
Today I still love this radical and futuristic architecture, I love the lightness, the transparency, the see-through, I find it so elegant and so sexy!
Inside I love the bright, open and wide spaces, the feeling of being inside the building but at the same time, still inside the city and I love spending hours in the bookstore looking for a new book.
Outside I love all these tubes and pipes, I love the bold colours used as symbol, blue for air-conditioning, yellow for electricity, green for water and red for pedestrian circulation.
I love the periscope-like giant air vents of an imaginary transatlantic space liner, I love the red zigzag and I love the unique view of Paris from the 5th floor.
I am sure, next time I will be in Paris, I will miss you!
Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE leaflet – London – 1970
OH SO PRETTY – PUNK IN PRINT 1976/80 – PHAIDON 2016
ADOLF LOOS is one of the few Architekts in my hall of fame.
I first discovered his great talent during a trip to Prague at the end of the 80’s, then as a young Architecture student in Venezia, I focused all my studies on his work. His love for classical Architecture, his minimalism and his modernism had a strong influence on my culture and my style. I love the clear lines, rigid interior spaces, flat roofs, terraces, absence of any ornament and decoration he used in all of his works.
07.01.2015/07.01.2025 JE SUIS toujours CHARLIE HEBDO
Natale 2024. Stay festive!
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in San Remo in two hours!
Happy me!
Last week I found a trunk full of LETRASET EUROSTILE BOLD EXTENDED and MEDIUM EXTENDED. This clean and futuristic typeface was designed by ALDO NOVARESE in 1962 and was largely used in the 70’s sci-fi movies and tv shows. In the original STAR TREK tv series and movies, the font appears on the exterior of all Starfleet vessels and insignias worn by the crew.
The right type for intergalactic communications!
I love shoulder-bags!
Animation for the new shoulder-bags T90 designed for SUPERLEGGERO. The new collection of shoulder-bags is available here . . .