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MAMMA BEVE BIMBO BEVE
Jun 01, 2010

Fabrica has conceived the symbolic image for the communication campaign "Mamma beve, bimbo beve" ("Mummy drinks, baby drinks") for USSL 9, the public social health unit of the Treviso area, Venice (Italy).

 

The image employed for the campaign is a foetus suspended in a glass of spritz, spritz being a typical Venetian alcoholic drink. The aim of the campaign is to warn pregnant women about the dangers of drinking. The message is clear: if you are pregnant and drink, even one glass of alcohol, it may damage your unborn child.


DANTE'S INFERNO - A NATURAL HISTORY
May 19, 2010

Dante's Inferno has been extensively illustrated, with accompanying notes, by Fabrica. A brandnew book published by Mondadori, appearing in bookstores from May 25.
 

 

More than 300 illustrations, all hand-made using different techniques and all accompanied by in-depth notation: a meticulous work, which gives the reader a fresh and original interpretation of one of the greatest masterpieces of everlasting liturature.

 

 

Fabrica assigned this project to two young English artists, Patrick Waterhouse and Walter Hutton.
 

 

For more information: fabrica@fabrica.it

To buy the book (Italian language only): link coming soon


RWANDA AGAIN IN COMPETITION AT ETHNOCINECA FILM FESTIVAL
May 13, 2010

“RWANDA AGAIN” IN COMPETITION AT ETHNOCINECA

The documentary co-produced by Fabrica and RSI participates to the Ethnographic Festival in Wien
 
Treviso, May 2010. Long observational shots, macro details, silence, solemn nature, time passing, concepts being communicated through observation not opinion, life portraiture.
 These are the elements of “Rwanda Again”, the documentary co-produced by Fabrica, Benetton’s research centre on communication, and RSI – Swiss Television, that will participate at Ethnocineca, Ethnographic and Documentary Film Fest, that will take place in Wien, from May 18th to 21st 2010.
 
Lawrence Blankenbyl and Phoebe Mutetsi, two young Fabrica residents, wanted to describe Rwanda fifteen years after one of the most brutal occurrences in recent history, the Genocide, with the delicacy of the daily life of its inhabitants who try to rebuild, through their work and simple values, what they once had and what they must have: food, shelter, liberty and trust for fellow human beings.
 
“Rwanda Again” tells the story of survival and remembrance as a means for healing the wounds of Genocide. The documentary focuses on life in five key locations where the atrocities of the ethnic conflict were perpetrated - an oar mine, sugarcane field, fishing lake, a cattle slaughterhouse and farms where life continues over grounds stained by violence.
 
This documentary marks a further step in the collaborative process between Fabrica and RSI. Fabrica is a place for experimentation and innovation, created in 1994 with the aim of combining culture and industry in an unprecedented way. Based near Venice, Fabrica offers young creative talents from around the world a one-year grant with which to develop their projects – guided by an international team of experts – in the fields of video, graphics, cinema, industrial design, publishing, new media and photography.
 
Ever since it was established 50 years ago, RSI (the Italian-language unit of the Swiss broadcaster SRG-SSR), has given prominence to documentaries among its cultural programmes and analyses of current affairs.
 
SCREENING:
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 9.05pm
At the presence of the director
 
Café 7*Stern
Siebensterngasse 31
1070 Wien
 
For further information:
Fabrica Press Office: +39 0422 516349/516340
 

 


THE ON-TIME CLOCK AT THE ICFF OF NEW YORK
May 13, 2010

The On Time clock designed by Fabrica for Diamantini&Domeniconi will be presented at the ICFF of New York in the booth of Wallpaper magazine. Booth 966 15-18 May Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York City


Laptopogram
May 07, 2010

A laptopogram is a photographic print made by pressing photosensitive paper against a laptop screen and then exposing it to the light emitted by the screen, in a technique similar to those used to produce contact prints and photograms. The images are then developed with a standard darkroom process.
This technique can also be used with any kind of electronic visual display such as a mobile phone or a television. This new process was created and developed by Aditya Mandayam, a resident at Fabrica.

http://laptopogram.tumblr.com/

 

See review of laptopgrams at following links:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/laptopogram-photo-paper-exposed-b...

http://kottke.org/10/04/making-photos-with-a-laptop-screen


 
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