bastard blog

Invited at the conference Bello Giusto Efficace of Art for Business at the Triennale in Milano I had the pleasure to meet Howard Gardner and spend a few words with him.

I discovered that he’s the one that exposed – in the last thirty years – the kindergartens of Reggio Emilia, that nowadays are taken as models ef excellence in many parts of the world… and suddenly realized why I was invited to talk about the bastard store ;)

Art For Business has been working since 2007 for making art’s contribution to organizations more recognizable, particularly regarding the impact that this languages have on people, offering new inputs and methods for continuos education.

In this context, Architecure and space utilization are perhaps important tools to help keeping a free stream of information and stimulate transfer of competence and skills from one area to another, beacuse different areas require different kinds of intelligence.

Lessons learned: QI is overrated (who cares?), never stop learning

After months of development and sleepless nights, our friends at inoda+sveje finally obtained the acknowledgement they deserved by winning the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010 with their Bike 2.0, resulting from a technical collaboration with Copenhagen’s IPU.

This is not a simple electric bike… take a look at the tech specs to see what we’re talking about.

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Invited by Igor Iraola – the oldest of the three brothers that 10 years ago started the most powerful skateboard factory in Europe – I spent a few days in Irún to watch closely how decks are made here… as well as testing some of the best restaurants of the Basque Country ;)

Positively impressed with the quality of the local production, technologies used, thorough distribution and the people working for the company and that are on the team, I could not help stepping on my first JART board!

UNPLUGGED ITALY, curated by Prof. Gennaro Postiglione and edited by LetteraVentidue is now available! The book originates from the exhibition and the lectures organized at the AHO last year and features the bastard store by studiometrico.

You can browse a preview below.

Family collabo with the Milano based designer/skater Cristiano Crepaldi and Ellez for the Draw The Next Screaming Hand Contest! of Santa Cruz Skateboards just got the first prize with the artwork above; stuff dor $500 and 50 decks production..

Zamoc just informed us that he will be part of PAm, the italian Visual Arts Festival happening on July 8-9-10-11 in Senigallia (AN) – Italy.

The pic above has been shot during his first solo show in Milano…
is everything still spinning around Zamoc?

Some people talk about and some just do it. Here is The Last Call, aka the first italian tradeshow dedicated to skateboarding. We’ll be there.