Sloping utopia
Turning the usual expression “mountain of waste” into a literal image? Said and done! In Copenhagen, the brilliant vision of BIG has all the appearance of an Alpine massif. Instead of iced water sources, however, there’s the energy from the processing of over 440,000 of garbage. This mountain is called “CoppenHill” or “Amager Bakke” and […]
WAM: the eclectic design of Marco Zito for Bross
The workmanship is typical of Bross production, associated with the concepts of quality and precision in the development of details. The design, instead, is the clean and contemporary one of Marco Zito, who for years has been signing the projects of some of the most important players in the world of international design. The result […]
Marco Spatti teams up with DesignFever
He is 33, he’s been working in his studio in Milan for six years and design runs through his veins. We’re talking about Marco Spatti, a young Italian product designer who has collaborated for over ten years with both Italian and international brands, designing furnishings, lights, and many objects that give different interpretations of the […]
The magical blooming of Bruce Munro
His first destination was the Australian desert, the second one, indeed reached a few months ago the small green oasis of Sensorio Paso Robles, in California. “Fields of light” is a traveling exposition by the British artist Bruce Munro that generates a surprising metamorphosis on the site where it is placed. Over 58,000 luminous flowers […]
Collages we’re truly in love with
His illustrations are everywhere: from Il Sole 24 Ore to La Repubblica, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Internazionale, Il Corriere della Sera, and countless books, advertising campaigns … The real, the one in flesh and blood, is instead one of the creatives who live in the DesignFever space in Milan, listens to experimental […]
A luminous line for climate change
When the issue of climate change is constantly in the spotlight, there are those who, on the contrary, have been able to transform it into a powerful “cry of light”. We’re talking about Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho, two Finnish artists who have drawn a line of LEDs along the coasts of the Hebrides, in […]
The (true) sustainable design
What direction is design going? In a scenario populated by press offices that promote any kind of products selling them as green only because of fewer kWh of consumption, and of false social #plasticfree campaigns (“because the only important thing is to catch some likes”), we feel compelled to share some design-friendly ideas of brands […]