"Everything in its place" the short documentary realized by Fabrica about the Guinness-award-winning Italian collector Alessandro Benedetti, will be broadcast on Sunday September 5th, at 11.25 pm on SBS-TV, Australia.

Enjoy the video: http://www.fabrica.it/project/everything-in-its-place-0

From the 3rd to the 7th of September Fabrica will be in Paris to present its latest design collections at Maison et Objet, Paris’ trade show attracting design professionals from across the world.

3-7 September 2010
Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre

Secondome
HALL 7
STAND K152

Diamantini & Domeniconi
HALL 6
STAND I10-J9

Carolinapad Atomic Soda
HALL 6
STAND H63

Seletti
HALL 6                               
STAND G9 - H10   

www.fabricafeatures.com
www.maison-objet.com
 

The cover of Design Issues Summer 2010, the prestigious magazine about design research published by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) features an image developped at Fabrica.

The author of the image, An Namyoung from Korea, uses the internationally known game Jenga as a metapher for the global crisis moment we live in: as in Jenga every player has to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses, so in contemporary society we have to face the unstability caused by hazardous financial speculations.

Design Issues is the first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism; it aims to provoke inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book reviews, and illustrations. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as artificial intelligence, product seminars, design in Asia, and design education.

For further information: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/desi/26/3

Within the Venice Architecture Biennal
Fabrica presents
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE

From the 21st of August to the 21st of November 2010 Fabrica, the Benetton group’s communication research center, will present its latest collections of objects for the house at the Guadagni Showroom in Venice.

Down Side Up is an encounter between experimentation and consumption, where design challenges shapes, volume perception and directions to create objects with constantly varying functions and interpretations. And so by adding a few essential accessories like legs, handles, hooks or hands, and by choosing a precise orientation, a simple basic wood unit is transformed into something new with a unique personality. The heart of each unit is a hole, a functional element which also gives the unit an aesthetic value. Therefore the effectiveness of each article lies in its versatility of use and its potential for creating customised modular systems.

The Riot Act is a collection of 12 decorative articles. The collection takes its name from the 1713 Act of the British Parliament which gave local authorities the right to order the dispersal of groups of 12 or more people deemed unlawfully assembled. Each of the 12 designers from Fabrica was given a ceramic cylinder to transform it in form and function through modifications, processes or additions of new elements.

Both the collections will be available for purchase at the Guadagni Showroom.

Sponsor: Mionetto - Valdobbiadene
Partners: Atelier F., Bosa, Diamantini&Domenicani, Secondome

Shifting Perspective
21 August – 21 November 2010

Cocktail
Thursday, August 26th 2010
18:30 -  20:00

Boffi Studio Guadagni
Salizada San Samuele 3336
San Marco - 30124 Venezia
T +39 041 099 47 30
www.guadagnidesign.it

Opening hours
From Tuesday to Saturday
9:30-13:00
15:30-19:00