On February 25 at 12:00 Erik Ravelo, Fabrica's Creative Director, will lecture at Centro de diseño, cine y television in Mexico City.
The lecture will mainly focus on It’s My Time, Benetton’s new global campaign conceived by Fabrica.
The event will take place at:
Auditorio Principal
Centro de diseño, cine y televisión
Sierra Mojada 415, Lomas de Chapultepec
México, D.F.
For more information: http://www.centro.edu.mx/
A plant, with a mouth-shaped flower, whose roots go down into the earth: this image was conceived by Fabrica, Benetton's creative lab, upon invitation by Unesco, in order to celebrate the International Mother Language Day on 21st February.
The message is clear: mother language is a delicate flower with ancient, deep roots that has to be protected and celebrated, because the cultural identity of groups and individuals develop from it.
For this reason miltilingualism and cultural diversity are key elements that have to be preserved for the sustainable development of both local and global culture.
This message goes back to some of the central concepts of Fabrica: consideration of the rest of the world, respect for the diversity and equality of all cultures.
Fabrica was chosen as Design Sponsor for the Unesco International Days. This image is the first step of a co-operation which will continue into the future.
The glass objects designed by Fabrica’s Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos for Secondome will be part of the permanent collection of Mude - Museu do Design da Moda in Lisbon.
Mude is one of the world's leading museums of 20th century design. The collection consists of works by some 230 designers representing trends in design from around the world. There are works by design icons such as Philippe Starck, Charles Eames, George Nelson, Arne Jacobsen, Paul Henningsen, Vener Panton, Masanori Umeda, Henning Koppel, and Tom Dixon, and includes almost 200 design classics embracing innovative furnishings, glass, and jewelry from 1937 to the present.
Past and future merge in the mouth-blown glass collections conceived by Fabrica’s young designers for the Secondome gallery in Rome. Among them, domes, bon-bon and fruit bowls, decanters, vases, centrepieces, sculptures, carafes and intricate candelabra.
Gonçalo Campos worked in Fabrica Design in 2008 and 2009. Born in Lisbon in 1986, he obtained his degree in Product Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2008. During his years at university he spent a period of study in Hatfield, UK. His interest focuses on material research, especially materials’ properties and the way they interrelate.
www.fabricafeatures.com
www.secondome.eu
www.mude.pt
The photo reportage Rainbowland shot by Kitra Cahana for Colors 76 Teenagers has obtained the 1st Prize Stories in the World Press Photo’s Art and Entertainment section.
The Rainbow Family is a non-hierarchical group that holds free gatherings around the world. In July 2009 they brought 25,000 people together for a week in the wilderness in New Mexico, U.S.. Kitra was there for Colors.
Kitra Cahana is a young emerging documentary photographer who had an early start in her career when, at the age of 17, while photographing the Israeli Disengagement from Gaza, one of her photographs landed on the front page of the New York Times. In 2007 she worked at the New York Times as the Thomas Morgan photographic intern and later in the year received a one-year scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research in Italy. During her period at Fabrica she worked on stories around the world for Colors magazine, including on the Pacific Islands of Vanuatu and Niue and in DR Congo and Kenya. She recently graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in philosophy and is presently the 2009 photographic intern at National Geographic. Kitra is a contributing photographer for Reportage By Getty Images.
On February 20 at 2.30 pm Omar Vulpinari, Head of Fabrica's Visual Communication, will lecture at the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA.
The title of the lecture is "Fabrica: The Benetton Research Centre on Communication" and it will focus on the wide range of creative and multidisciplinary projects developed at the centre, with particular attention to its committment towards social communication.
The event will take place at the MFA Designer as Author Studio, 380 Second Avenue, Room 521.
For more information: http://design.sva.edu/site/blog/show/122
