Open Design Italia 2013: the pot is getting sweeter
Not just awards, but opportunities. Open Design Italia 2013 offers its selected participants visibility and the possibility to get to know new communication modalities. Prezi is a new software that allows the creation of highly effective and engaging presentations. The winner of the Prezi Award will receive a dedicated tutorial from one of Prezi’s graphic [...]
Read moreOpen Design Italia at DMY Festival Berlin 2013
Open Design Italia and Ottagono curated the exhibition mounting of the five winners of the 2012 edition of Open Design Italia, highlighting the making processes and the synergies between the designers and the world of craftsmen and small enterprises. Federica Bubani, Perlamdredesign, Piquattropunto, Paolo Vallara and Andrea Zausa brought semi-finished self-produced products to show the public [...]
Read moreSelf-production reloaded
The final synthesis workshop held by Stefano Maffei, Venanzio Arquilla, Barbara Parini, with the participation of Andrea Gianni (Subalterno1) at the Design school of Milan Polytechnic is back. The course will start from Andrea Branzi’s definition of “mass occupation design”, it will then try to delineate the emerging scenarios (self-production, DIY, digital fabrication, advanced fabrication, [...]
Read moreDesign’s future between craftsmanship and 3D
Some call it the third Industrial Revolution. A real transformation of the production system, encompassing the means of production and the people involved, paves the way for new, previously unimaginable scenarios. It’s the digital manufacturing era, in which digital design and creation ¬– through 3D printing and laser cutting – is increasingly spreading in the [...]
Read moreA factory in one bag
Digital fabrication has progressed enormously in recent years. Print precision and material quality have increased –not only ABS plastic, but also ceramic – and prices have decreased. Alongside Maker Boot’s “self-generative” model there is now the Galileo machine of the company Kent’s Strapper. Mobile Fab Labs have been available already for some years, as well [...]
Read moreThe web as an answer to the crisis of design
Italian design focuses on the web to launch its global showcase. Until 2011, online sales of the sector accounted for under 1% of total internet sales, however, last year this figure has doubled. According to the Milan Polytechnic University: “in recent months, the number of websites that offer furniture pieces has grown”, says Valentina Pontiggia, [...]
Read moreThere is strength in numbers
Creating a brand that gives national and international prestige to a network of craftsmen, designers and wood suppliers, with the awareness that there is strength in numbers in a globalized world, without forgetting quality, sustainability and the intrinsic value of “Made in Italy”.This is the idea underlying the “Slow Wood” project, created by Gianni Cantarutti [...]
Read moreOpen Design Italia focuses on digital
If you got here, you already noticed! Opendesignitalia.net gave way to a new dynamic, intuitive and eye-catching website. The news area plays an important role, so that users can be constantly updated about what we do. The new website was created with WordPress and it is optimized for any type of monitor, tablet or smartphone. [...]
Read moreThe 2013 Call for Applications is online
We are currently accepting applications for the 2013 edition. Designers, fashion designers, artists, makers and companies and/or studios can submit their projects online until the 30th of September 2013. Priority will be given to products, not prototypes, that are developed along short supply chains and that stem from new local business forms among designers, craftsmen [...]
Read moreOPEN DESIGN ITALIA FACTORY
During the 2013 edition, the first collection of Open Design Italia Factory brand furniture items created in collaboration with CNA Vicenza will be presented. It is the pilot project for the new web platform of the same name aimed at producing and curating services for self-producing designers who were awarded during the past editions of [...]
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