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02/07/2024

PREMIO BARCELLONA (IV EDIZIONE)
Programma di residenze dedicate ai temi del design sostenibile.

Lo scopo del Premio, promosso dall'Istituto Italiano di cultura di Barcellona, è sostenere due giovani designer attraverso due borse di studio di sei mesi a Barcellona per fare un’esperienza formativa e professionale presso un’organizzazione (istituzioni o aziende) e approfondire i temi del design sostenibile.
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Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale

Link al bando (scadenza 30 agosto 2024): https://iicbarcellona.esteri.it/it/news/dall_istituto/2024/06/bando-di-concorso-premio-barcellona-iv-edizione/

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L'IIC Barcellona, organo ufficiale MAECI, promuove e diffonde la lingua e cultura italiana all'estero

08/06/2024

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27/05/2024

Opening ’s Ex-Designer Project Bar at Disseny Hub.

It is an exceptional project that turns a digitally designed interior, produced entirely using full-size 3D printing techniques into a standalone object, will be on display at the Disseny Hub Barcelona, under the curatorship of , head of collections at the Museu del Disseny - DHub, from 23 May to 25 August.

The project was born in November 2015, when Martí Guixé, one of Barcelona’s most internationally influential 21st century designers, set out to design and 3D-print, independently and without help, all the components of a bar on Barcelona’s C/ Entença in collaboration with architect Pau Badia.

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28/04/2024

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27/04/2024

.berlin interior design by , discovered thanks to .

26/01/2024

WEARING //
Beauty, skill, hope. The Maison Margiela SS24 couture collection or the Sense of Fashion by Alessandro Turci.

Beauty, skill, hope. The Maison Margiela SS24 couture collection or the Sense of Fashion by Alessandro Turci

12/01/2024

SHARING //
Last call for design students! Free registrations to iF DESIGN STUDENT AWARD 2024 are still possible until 7 February 2024. The best concepts that aim to solve the SDGs of the United Nations will be honored with a total of EUR 50,000 in prize money. The Triennale in Milan is the venue for this year's Awards Ceremony.



iF International Forum Design

Free registrations are still possible until 7 February 2024. The best concepts that aim to solve the SDGs of the United Nations will be honored with a total of EUR 50,000 in prize money. The Triennale in Milan is the venue for this year's Awards Ceremony.

07/12/2023

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Designer Lara Bohinc was awarded Miami Design District’s 2023 Annual Design Commission for her immersive installation of functional sculptures that realize a vision of sustainable urban living, creating public spaces where people and nature harmoniously coexist.


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Designer Lara Bohinc was awarded Miami Design District’s 2023 Annual Design Commission for her immersive installation of functional sculptures that realize a vision of sustainable urban living, creating public spaces where people and nature harmoniously coexist.

01/12/2023

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Until 17 December 2023, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo La Sala in Vilanova i la Geltrù presents Gastón Lisak’s first institutional exhibition curated by Mariella Franzoni, an investigation focused on the social life of abandoned and discarded objects.

Until 17 December 2023, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo La Sala, Vilanova i la Geltrù, presents Gastón Lisak's first institutional exhibition curated by Mariella Franzoni, an investigation focused on the social life of abandoned and discarded objects.

03/11/2023

EMBRACE THE CHANGE OF SEASON WITH A COZY LAMP

The Ovington floor lamp by can help give a Hygge touch to your home.

🔎 read the article on our online magazine (link in BIO)

27/10/2023

Efrem López and David Sanchez, founders of , present for the first time in Barcelona, and as a first for Spain, a wide selection of iconic pieces from the Dutch firm of contemporary furniture .eu.

In the elegant showroom also amazing lamps by and .

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27/10/2023

Tomorrow is the last day to visit at The Social Hub Barcelona the installation Pure Plants, a family of living sculptures, 3D printed and designed in different sizes, shades and species, and flourishes as a creative and technological solution to the climate emergency. Made from a minral bioplastic polymer, they use Pure.Tech technology, which absorbs CO2 from the environment, making them the first 3D printed plants that purify the air.

These pieces are the result of research by Carmelo Zappulla (External Reference), a pioneer in the field of experiential design and new materials.

Simon Electric LAMÁQUINA Teresa Herrero Living

18/10/2023

Installations, Exhibitions, Showrooms, Talks, Workshops, Routes, and more… a program with a purpose: Design for Human Future.

18 is the number of editions of the Barcelona Design Week organized by Barcelona Design Centre, but above all, it is a program and a purpose: Design for Human Future proposes SDG Number 18 to promote a more humane and humanistic future through the tools, the practices and the culture of design in companies, associations and individuals with the aim of generating a global positive impact for everyone.

➡️ read more online (link in BIO)

01/10/2023

The third edition of the , Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, from 26 September to 1 October 2023, highlights social emergencies through documentary film and architecture. The winning film will travel to Madrid on 18 October for a special screening and subsequent discussion with film director and architect .

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01/09/2023

Summer 2023 will be remembered for fashionably ‘dressed’ beach clubs! Prestigious collaborations between the chicest brands and the most sought-after lidos make people dream. Among them also GESSI, among the partners of Nikki Beach Costa Smeralda, in the beautiful bay of Cala Petra Ruja in Sardinia, not far from Porto Cervo.

The Private Wellness Company is part of the beach club's programme of collaborations and events for the 2023 summer season, offering exclusive guests an oasis of contemporary wellness.

22/08/2023

Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez, designed by in Barcelona, was awarded as Public Library of the Year 2023 at the 88th IFLA World Library and Information Conference.

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22/08/2023

Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez, designed by SUMA Arquitectura in Barcelona, was awarded as Public Library of the Year 2023 at the 88th IFLA World Library and Information Conference.

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Gabriel García Márquez Library, designed by SUMA arquitectura in Sant Martí district of Barcelona, stands out for its exceptional features and the contribution it has made to the local community.

08/08/2023

Encounters: works from the TBA21 Collection.

From 31 May to 8 October 2023 at in collaboration with TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

Always a good choice to visit Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid!

The display suggests new connections between artistic creation of different periods and cultures.
Among others, we chose:

02/07/2023

WEARING//
500 million people followed and commented on the Luis Vuitton fashion show on June 21 for the debut of Pharrell Williams as creative director of the brand. When fashion no longer indicates the way forward, becoming a means of social discrimination, a vortex with no way out.

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02/07/2023

WEARING//
500 million people followed and commented on the Luis Vuitton fashion show on June 21 for the debut of Pharrell Williams as creative director of the brand. When fashion no longer indicates the way forward, becoming a means of social discrimination, a vortex with no way out.

Thanks to Alessandro Turci

500 million people followed and commented on the Luis Vuitton fashion show on June 21 for the debut of Pharrell Williams as creative director of the brand. When fashion no longer indicates the way forward, becoming a means of social discrimination, a vortex with no way out.

21/06/2023

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After discarded truck tarps, FREITAG is embarking on a new cycle with a product made from just one material and sending the first circular backpack into production. Designed in collaboration with the young British designer Jeffrey Siu.

After discarded truck tarps, FREITAG is embarking on a new cycle with a product made from just one material and sending the first circular backpack into production.

13/05/2023

Six megatrends and their influence on design. iF Design Trend Report 2023 can be downloaded until 20 July 2023 for free (read the article to find the link). The occasion for the 70-day free download is the 70th anniversary that the iF Design company is celebrating this year.
Waiting for iF DESIGN AWARD NIGHT 2023 at Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin...
iF International Forum Design

For the second time, iF Design has published the iF Design Trend Report. Six megatrends and their influence on design: Connectivity, Silver Society, Health, Urbanization, Mobility, and Neo Ecology. On the occasion of iF Design's 70th anniversary, the Trend Report can be downloaded free of charge for...

07/04/2023

Not only lighting companies... at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, from April 18th to 23rd Euroluce 2023, Pavilion 11, presents the exhibition “HELENE BINET. Nature, Time and Architecture”.

Massimo Curzi curates and sets up the personal exhibition of Hélène Binet, one of the most significant authors of contemporary photography, showing how her work investigates the relationship between natural light and architecture.

05/03/2023

It ended the exhibition at in Paris about Christian Marclay’s work. This exhibition was designed as a network of affinities and echoes according to the multimedia artist’s way of thinking, combining the preexisting with reinterpretation and metamorphosis.

Sculptures and amazing immersive video works made within the last decade — from Surround Sounds (2014-2015) to Subtitled (2019).

But you can appreciate trailer and podcasts about the artist on museum website https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/PKjHEfl

24/02/2023

ARCOmadrid is Spain’s International Contemporary Art Fair, emerging as one of the main contemporary art market platforms since its foundation.

In 2023 it celebrated its 42nd edition with the mediterranean at its core. The programme, ‘The Mediterranean: A Round Sea’, curated by Marina Fokidis, with the advice of Bouchra Khalili, Hila Peleg and Pedro G. Romero, will hinge on the art scenes of the countries surrounding this sea, from north to south and coast to coast. Additionally, ARCOmadrid2023 will continue its regular programmes, completing the artistic contents with the General Programme as the main backbone of the Fair, made up of galleries selected by the Organising Committee. There will also be the ‘Opening by Allianz’ section curated by Julia Morandeira and Yina Jiménez, that presents young galleries and the ‘Never the Same. Latin American Art’ section, curated by Mariano Mayer and Manuela Moscoso, a section that will strengthen the historical ties between ARCOmadrid and Latin American art.

23/02/2023

ZOOMORPHIC AND POST-HUMAN AESTHETIC IN BUJ STUDIO’S CREATIONS

Biomanufacturing and craftsmanship in fashion by artist, fashion designer and architect de .studio exhibited in ILE Institución Libre de Enseñanza during Madrid Design Festival 2023.

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21/02/2023

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Biomanufacturing and craftsmanship in fashion by artist, fashion designer and architect Raquel Buj exhibited in ILE Institución Libre de Enseñanza during Madrid Design Festival 2023.

Biomanufacturing and craftsmanship in fashion by artist, fashion designer and architect Raquel Buj exhibited in ILE Institución Libre de Enseñanza during Madrid Design Festival 2023.

09/02/2023

Starting tomorrow, 11 international artists at the forefront of the international urban art scene, from February 10th to March 19th 2023, are gathered in Paris to create a powerful and sensitive exhibition at a 3 000 M2 space and to "question our human condition".
Organized by Fondation Desperados pour l’Art Urbain. Curated by Gaël Lefeuvre.
Artists: Michael Beitz (United States), Gonzalo Borondo (Spain), CELA collective (France), A.L. Crego (Spain), Joaquin Jara Garcia (Spain), Addam Yekutieli alias Know Hope (Israel), Amir Roti (France), (France), AXEL VOID (USA), Berardone (Italy).
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11 international artists at the forefront of the international urban art scene, from February 10th to March 19th 2023, are gathered in Paris to create a powerful and sensitive exhibition at a 3 000 M2 space and to "question our human condition"

19/01/2023

Opening of exhibition MUTAR, in Barcelona, for its 75th anniversary.

Seven artists interpret Venice lamp designed by :





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11/01/2023

LIVING //
The lighting editor Santa & Cole curates an exhibition on designer Miguel Milá at its Barcelona gallery, open to visitors until January 28th.

Santa & Cole presents the exhibition "Miguel Milá. A Life in Design" at its Barcelona gallery, open to the public until January the 28th 2023.