An enlivened counting book, in which the numbers appear on the page in a sort of endless geometric dance.
One to ten and the other way round: behind each number is hidden its complementary one, which is revealed by turning the page.
A double dimension and a parallel reading, an unexpected way to imagine each number by its shape, thanks to an original and immediate graphic layout.
The book contains four sample projects for new-style communities. Four stories told through words, pictures and suggestions about the design potential surrounding everyday living.
Every gesture and action, even the simplest, is a project.
The key words in design – method and precision – can be seen in everything: an inventory is the most effective way of collecting, ordering and deciphering everything we encounter.
A bursting with life ABC, in which the pages go towards the curious reader and move in three dimensions in an astonishing way.
The city as a living body that is born, develops and differentiate its buildings and functions: from the very first nucleus (an isolated church among the trees in the countryside) to the huge metropolis crowded with streets, pylons, factories and stations.
A project for making easy-to-assemble furniture using rough boards and nails. An elementary technique to teach anyone to look at present production with a critical eye.
An exceptional book that submits nature's shapes to humorous criticism by the designer.
In 1988 Design Gallery Milano started its business by displaying the exhibition “Bharata” by Ettore Sottsass (with exhibition planning by Michele De Lucchi).
Since then, Design Gallery produced hundreds of objects – few of which in more than some dozens copies – that had in common the aim of going beyond the conventional standards of the market circulation.
For the very first time, during the Salone del Mobile 2009 a furniture company presented itself in a completely furnished apartment, rent on this occasion, with company staff living in it for the whole duration of the show.
Appartamento Lago featured thirteen people sharing kitchen, shower and wardrobes, but also sharing their days with everybody who rang the bell and dropped in. Of course, all furniture featured Lago products, creating thus an authentic and surprising fusion of an everyday space, a public place, a gallery and a showroom.
This book documents Martí Guixé’s work around food design, taking stock of his research from the very first projects in 1995 to the last ones in 2010. Even food may be designed: Martí Guixé gives here countless examples by squaring potatoes, building molecular structures with olives and toothpicks, decorating cakes with a graphic representation of their content, and even sponsoring food.