Alexa Meade and the #inversion mood
Above and underneath the surface, playing with space perception: by painting on living subjects, real life appears to be a bidimensional painting.
Alexa Meade, already known painter for Denim & Supply by Ralph Lauren, reveals a curious #inversion mood, where 3D simulates to 2D and art starts breathing.
An optical illusion that suggests something more about the blurring lines between reality and art…
Think global, act (very) local
Think global act local, we used to say.
In Trump’s view, this statement assumes a strong #inversion feature: by stressing borders, interruption with the previous mind-set is highlighted.
A defensive and extreme position towards the main current industrial trends (as delocalization) seems to affect this scenario…
#inversion #trends2017 #trump #USpolitics #USeconomy
Merry Xmas from baba
How many fidelity cards are in the pockets?
How many shopping bags in the hands?
Tech gadgets, travels, relaxing holidays: let’s address to baba your main questions and we will tell you which customers your clients and prospects are!
While people flowing in the streets are looking for the last presents, we have already profiled the new customers for 2017/2018 😉
Looking forward to February the 9th, 2017 to discover the emerging trends thanks to baba Trend Monitor Forecast, we wish Merry Xmas to all of you!
Deseat.me – Clean up you existence!
Tired to be tracked down in internet?
Clean up your existence!
Following the emerging needs of internet detox and privacy safeguarding, a swedish startup, in partnership with Google, has developed Deseat.me, an app providing you the chance to delete the accounts you’ve signed up in years.
Is the big G reshaping the concept of web memory?
Quite interesting…
Next year I’d like to have a robot, wouldn’t you?
Are we living in the future? It seems! According to the latest innovations in robotics, in addition to technological development, what is really changing is the real availability of robots, that we have only imagined for a long time. In some countries we can buy them, in other we will do it very soon.
An Italian example: in Amsterdam, during the GPU Technology Conference Europe, a small robot prototype has been presented: R1.
“R1 is a humanoid robot and we created it with the goal of making a robot that is affordable in terms of price. R1 has been designed with applications in the domestic environment and the household to be helpful initially maybe to people that have disabilities, who may need help and later to everybody,” says Professor Giorgio Metta.
R1 is improving its skills learning from its experiences, and it will be launched on the market in a year and a half.
Since 2014, in Japan, you can buy Pepper, an humanoid priced 1500 euros. This robot may serve as a waiter, salesman and customer service in about 500 companies, including Nestlé and Nissan.
The technological field of automatin can consider different drives: see the California-based company Abyss Creation, that has produced “RealDoll”, the most expensive dolls with an artificial intelligence in the world, whose prototypes are ready with the goal “to expand sensory possibilities related to sex”. This is the ultimate sexual objectification.
Although this matter could result disturbing, robots should make life easier for sick people and the elderly, proving to be an help for the society.
Are we ready for the future?
20/21 ottobre: baba racconta la nuova mobilità sostenibile
Alle 2 GIORNATE SULLA SOSTENIBILITÁ baba sarà presente con una relazione sul rapporto tra mobilità e ambiente tenuta da Giulia Ceriani
L’evento è promosso da The LIFEstyle Journal e si terrà il 20 e il 21 ottobre presso la Biblioteca della Moda, a Milano.
Durante la manifestazione avranno luogo 4 workshop dedicati a come, diversi settori merceologici, quali mobility, moda, cosmesi e design interagiscano con il tema della sostenibilità.
Design City: il senso delle cose
Camminando per le vie di Milano, in questi giorni, ci si può imbattere in un evento che è destinato a contraddistinguere l’inizio dell’autunno nel capoluogo lombardo. Si tratta della prima edizione di Design City Milano, una manifestazione che, dal 1° al 9 ottobre, si inserisce, provando a lasciare un suo segno, nel flusso delle attività metropolitane.
Design City vs Salone del Mobile?
Diciamo che la città del design ci prova in un modo nuovo, con un’intenzione certamente meno commerciale e prendendo spunto da altri due eventi ideati su scala urbana quali sono Book City e Piano City.
Un ‘idea di intimità, selezione, qualità: rendere più vicino il rapporto che intercorre tra il design e Milano, sottrarsi alla superficialità touch & go, ritrovare, non a caso, il senso delle cose.
Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
New York City’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum is hosting Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse, the exhibition of three designers: Luisa Cevese, founder of Milan-based brand Riedizioni; Christina Kim, Los Angeles-based brand dosa, inc. and Reiko Sudo, managing director at NUNO in Tokyo.
Each designer’s practice involves innovative and sophisticated reuse of textile materials and resources, while engaging in preservation of local craft traditions and the integration of new technologies in the recycling process.
From September 23, 2016 to April 16, 2017.
For more information: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/scraps/
Apple: think different?
Dopo tanta attesa il 7 settembre è stato presentato in commercio il nuovo iPhone7 – uno smartphone che mostra diverse modifiche interne, ma con un design già visto. Infatti, nonostante sia stato rinnovato nelle sue parti e nelle sue prestazioni, è chiaro che si tratta di un’invenzione relativa, non molto differente dal “fratello” iPhone 6.
Ci chiediamo ora se anche l’azienda da sempre forse maggiormente esplicita nel dichiarare, e costruire, una visione del futuro propria, non stia prendendo tempo, e dunque non preferisca lanciare un prodotto in qualche modo inerte, con poca innovazione sostanziale se non l’arroccamento in un sistema autoriferito. La tendenza 2016-17 è ancora SURFACE: stimolazione leggera, scivolamento veloce, difficoltà a consistere.
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