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DOTS AND INCISIONS

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes, published by London based Visual Editions, is not written by him but rather (die)cut by him! The writer of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes his favorite book The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz in order to cut and create a new story out of it. It is [...]

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MARTINO TREATS #03: TRATTORIA AL CAPPELLO

Monday, September 10, 2012

No mini survey of our current cover star Martino Gamper’s work would be complete without mentioning food in general, and his legendary pop-up dinner evenings Trattoria al Cappello in particular, for which he not only cooked, but also conceived most of the furniture, down to the cutlery and candle holders. Bon Appetit:
Your Trattoria evenings were [...]

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MARTINO TREATS #02: IF ONLY GIO KNEW

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

We can’t talk about Martino Gamper’s work without talking about his use of waste material, and we can’t talk about Martino’s use of waste material without talking about his project taking apart and reassembling furniture by Italian master designer Gio Ponti – so here you go, in our second little excerpt of our very current [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #32: MARTINO GAMPER

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Dear Friends,
with summer dropping in and out every now and then, we finally and happily present our latest issue featuring the unmistakeable Martino Gamper – and about high time, admittedly. But: dedicating a tasty 10,000-word interview to the charm and wit of the Italian product designer in a volume ripe with food for the mind [...]

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THE SUPER SOLAR COOK-OFF

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Solar Cook-Off is a cooking competition taking place as a part of Playpublik Urban Game Festival. Participants are invited to build a solar cooker, then show their talent with the scavenged food. In case the sun doesn’t feel like coming out, there is a Plan B, which is to built the Super Rocket Stove! If you are [...]

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