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FABRICA DESIGNS TEACHERS WITHOUT BORDERS' NEW LOGO
Jul 10, 2012
Teachers Without Borders (TWB), a Seattle-based non-profit organization, asked Fabrica, Benetton Group Media and Communication Research Center, to design a new logo that more accurately represents its mission and vision.
The logo encapsulates the key values of the organization and its unique approach to supporting teachers, worldwide. It uses an image of an abstract globe to highlight the teaching profession – the largest in the world at close to 60 million worldwide – as integral in ensuring the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants. The globe also emphasizes the organization’s approach: As transmitters of knowledge and community leaders, teachers are powerful catalysts for lasting global change. Furthermore, the globe refers to the support network that TWB provides to educators worldwide in the form of resources, training, tools, and connections with colleagues, in order to assist them in fulfilling their important role in their schools and communities. The globe also represents international reach, cooperation, and networking – values central to the organization’s programs and mission. The letters in the new logo, located closely to each other, refer to connectedness for communication and exchange of professional knowledge and experience.
Dr. Fred Mednick, TWB’s Founder, believes that the new logo reflects the organization’s commitment to removing borders: “Our
new logo shows a connected and networked world, without borders, and both touched and surrounded by teachers. It is about the intimacy of connection – on a global scale. The emphasis on the “o” reflects our commitment to open education and removing barriers. We’re thrilled with what Fabrica has produced for us.”
The logo has already been implemented on the organization’s website at http://www.teacherswithoutborders.org
Teachers Without Borders is a leading non-profit organization in the field of international education and teacher professional development. Our work connects teachers to information and each other to create local change on a global scale. Please visit our website, www.teacherswithoutborders.org for more information.
FABRICA PRESENTS VANISH
Jul 09, 2012
The new audiovisual project launched today with a worldwide preview on Internet
Fabrica, July 9th, 2012. Natural elements such as water, wood and ice meet and blend with materials fashioned by man, including porcelain and metal, to create a mixture of shapes and sculptures that dance in total interconnectivity with the music.
This is VANISH, the latest audiovisual project produced by FABRICA, Benetton Group's communication research centre, the fruit of a collaboration between the filmmaker/programmer Daniel Schwarz and musician Davide Cairo.
VANISH is a fascinating journey through surreal landscapes, in which music and video have been composed in parallel, influencing each other in their development. Common materials, such as the abovementioned ice, wood, porcelain, metal, and even balsamic vinegar, simultaneously gave rise to sounds and imagery. The music drew inspiration from the sounds made by these elements, and through a huge series of algorithms, transformed them into a range of geometric representations that then formed the basis for the audio-reactive graphics projections.
As the project's young creators explain, “after meeting at Fabrica and seeing each other's work, the decision to start working together came naturally, and it worked perfectly right from the start, because we both had the same artistic vision of the project, and we could inspire each other and spur each other on”.
Daniel Schwarz (Germany, 1987) studied Information Technology and Media at the Stuttgart Media University in Germany, and at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. His project AXIOM.3, an interactive dance performance, won the ARTE Creative Student prize. Since 2011, Daniel has been a resident in Fabrica's Interactive department, where he has produced the project PIECE OF PAPER, an experimental short film that has already won the video contest announced by Amon Tobin, and published in the artist's official box set. His work ranges from interactive installations to performances and videos, often combining digital with analog, bringing computational and visual processes out of the screen.
Davide Cairo (Italy, 1987) studied Science and Tecnology of Musical Communication at Milan University, and attained the certificate of Mixing & Mastering at the Garnish School of Sound, London. In early 2012 he won the Music Scholarship at Fabrica, where he fulfills his role as a musician and sound designer, with a particular eye to musical experimentation, technology and interdisciplinary work.
Video: https://vimeo.com/45432364
Free download track: http://soundcloud.com/edisonnoside/vanish
For further information:
Loredana Rigato
Fabrica Press Office
+39-0422-516340
DIRTY TONY AT MAREMETRAGGIO-TRIESTE
Jul 05, 2012
DIRTY TONY, the short movie coproduced by Fabrica, will be officially presented to the public on Thursday, July 5th 2012 in Trieste, within the Festival Maremetraggio.
DIRTY TONY is the title of the script winner of the 2011 edition of CORTO86 competition, created by Associazione Mattador with the collaboration of Fabrica and a group of institutions and centers.
The winner of CORTO86 receives a money prize and the possibility to participate to all the production and postproduction phases for the realization of the short movie.
Fabrica realized the post production, the original soundtrack and the poster.
COLORS MAGAZINE IN BUDAPEST
Jul 03, 2012
The Design Terminal in Budapest will host an exhibition of Colors’ 83 covers. The exhibition, which is in memorial of one of Colors’ founders, the Hungarian Tibor Kalman, is part of The Art Moments Contemporary Visual Arts Festival which will take place from the 5th to the 12th of July in the very heart of the city of Budapest. The festival organizes visual art events, presenting young talents' artwork and performances. Besides fine art, media art, photography and film, pieces from other art fields, like literature and music, will be shown.
www.artmoments.hu
6-29 July
Design Terminal
1054 Budapest
Erzsébet tér 13
FABRICA AT DESIGN PARADE 7
Jun 28, 2012
Fabrica’s Italian designer Giorgia Zanellato is among the 10 finalists of Design Parade 7, an international design festival and competition taking place from June 29th to July 7th at Villa Noailles in Hyère, France. The project presented by Giorgia is Net Cabane, one of the installations of Next Cabane by Fabrica which has been recently exhibited at Mudam in Luxemburg, among others. Giorgia will also participate in the exhibition taking place at Villa Noailles from June 29th to September 30th with Narciso, her Master project at Ecal in Lausanne.
Villa Noailles
montée de Noailles - 83400 Hyères
t 0033 4 98 08 01 98 - f 0033 4 98 08 01 90
www.villanoailles-hyeres.com
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