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Are you ready for Scholser Pfaif ?

pfaif = pipe  schlolse =  Senales

This awful drinking tool will heartily welcome you to the next bastard Grill’Em All.

Our friend Marco Mucig just proudly shown us his latest work, the Bicycle Film Festival 2009 trailer, with a poster, too.

I missed it this year, isn’t there someone who cycled there with a good report for us?

Scopettone (toilet sign)

Although for many I am simply “the architect” – and matter-of-factly that’s my hard and not so well respected profession – there’s someone (I am not going to tell the name, but it start with ‘j’ and ends with ‘ep’) that keeps on telling me now and then that, at the end of the day, I’d made a good graphic designer. Sometimes I think about it, and perhaps it’s true. For sure I am not a very prolific one, it’ already a lot if I produce one or two things per year. Anyway these are the works I made for bastard in the past… Read the rest of this entry »

Dimitri and Yoonjung from LA inform us that a few days ago Nicolas Negroponte has been born… already embedded with his own website, a Twitter account, Facebook and a couple of email address.

When they say connected… I can’t wait to read his first post. My best to the whole family!

The other day, me and my friend Nikki were talking about heavy metal movies, I suggest him to watch the movie of Anvil and he recommended me to watch Flight 666. It’s a Rockumentary about the last world tour, 23 concerts, 5 continents in 45 days! But is not an “on the road” kind of movie, they flew a board of the Ed force one, a Boeing 757 with the singer of the band Bruce Dickinson as a pilot… I can’t call it an “eco friendly tour”, over 50000 miles, but more frendly than the Pope for sure! The Maiden are playing around since 1975 and, in the last tour they brought their energy everywhere. It’s something really close to religion for some of the Iron Maiden fans. Some of them wait for all their lifes just to see one of them shows. I cried. Click here to watch the movie. 

This afternoon Jim Houser visited us (…and checked out the bastard bowl). Today at 6:30PM he opens his show The Tip of the Sword at Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milan.

Have a look to his interview on Fecal Face.

This is the name of the new masterpiece of the director underground Sergio Minnici. 

The book of the Designing Designers 2008 conference where I attended some months ago with Francesca Murialdo and Lorenzo Bini of studiometrico, has just been published.

[…] Modern communication technologies connected to the new globalized economies have created a fresh way of working that influences both space organization and methodological aspects. New offices and workplaces are created to host updated requirements, thus being substantially transformed. New type of workers – the so called knowledge workers – have introduced innovative ways of living and interacting with the working spaces […]

Four pages and some pictures of Giuliano Berarducci are dedicated to our COMVERT HQ.

Edited in english language from POLI.design you will find it soon at the bastard store or at the bookstore Hoepli or libreriauniversitaria.it for € 23,00.

Leeander point us to the fifth edition of Frontiers of Interaction, this time in Rome.

A day of speeches and interviews with the theme:
Social networking, internet of things, smart cities or how tecnologies are changing our life.

Here the schedule of the day.

Yesterday, after 3 years of  Court battles, Denmark’s Eastern High Court puts an end to 38 years of disagreement, which started in 1971 when a group of squatters took over an area of military barracks disused and transformed it into an autonomous alternative city inside Copenaghen, called Freetown Christiania. A social experiment from 1973 by a government decision.

The High Court decided that the area belongs to the state and now they will open it to external businesses. It seems that someone is interested in that, which now is very central, and attracts more than one million tourists a year.