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The Order of Malta at the United Nations

The Order of Malta celebrates 25 years of humanitarian diplomacy with an exhibition at the United Nations, curated by Vertigo Design.

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ASI: Presentazione del nuovo marchio

Vertigo Design cura il progetto di rinnovamento dell'identità visiva dell'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, a partire dal restyling del logo, con l'obiettivo di ridefinire alcuni tratti della comunicazione preesistente e renderli adeguati al contesto contemporaneo.

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Talking time with Andrea Natella

A new event by Mario Rullo and Claudio Spuri, for the review “DIVERSE VISIONI” (Different visions) at the RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts, with the sociologist and publicist Andrea Natella. Design Fiction, advertising dystopia, unconventional, guerrilla marketing etc. A discussion moment dedicated to unconventional communication, provocation, marketing intended as a real battle field, and everything concerning the world of advertisement. An enriching discussion useful to underline the complexity of creative processes through the obsessive research of and in the contemporary.

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Caleidoscopic: 45 years of ISIA Roma Design

Friday, 14th December 2018 at the ISIA Roma was presented the exhibition “Caleidoscopica: 45 anni di ISIA Roma – la prima scuola pubblica di Design in Italia” (Caleidoscopica: 45 years od ISIA Rome - The first Public School of Design in Italy). In this exhibition with projects, videos, projections and studio works have been summarised and presented productions and research results by ISIA, covering the last 45 years.

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RUFA - UBUNTU / a manifesto for humanity

A project by Armando Milani, Mario Fois and Paolo Buonaiuto. Supervised by Armando Milani, RUFA students developed paths and projects aimed in creating a manifesto / message about humanity matters, whilts focusing on the history, ways and techniques. All best projects have been exposed during the exhibition “UBUNTU – I am because we are – 150 Manifestos for Solidarity” (Rotonda della Besana, Milan). It has been displayed also a manifesto created by Vertigo Design.

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Workshop with Lorenzo Fanton and Armando Milani

The new academic year at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts- began with an intensive week of workshops, unconventional courses and theoretical/practical classes. Artists, experts and professionals worked with students, producing innovative objects. Sharing these events and experiences with Lorenzo Fanton - from Pentagram NewYork- and Armando Milani has been an useful and enriching experience. What's inside and around the project: confronting each others, exchange, creating relations and sharing.

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3653 days beneath the surface

Beneath the surface of time there are whole worlds of signs, meanings and signals. It's 10 years now that Vertigo Design is proposing a different view to what flows through time, each day, presenting in its calendars a view of life 'beyond the obvious'. Themes, topics, representations and interpretations, in a stream of uninterrupted contents and shapes. Every-time presenting this in a slightly different way: throught Italo Calvino “Lezioni Americane” (American Lessons), or with the no-answer questions proposed by Michael Hanlon; through the 'Important Numbers' by Le Monde Diplomatique, languages of information, design and images between representations and dreams, surpass the existence of time. What makes something Italian, and what contradictions make of Rome our city; art becoming word, and vice versa, and timelines as time machines...

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Ma Planète vue de l'Espace

Vertigo Design defined the art direction for this exhibition at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. After Rome and New York, this work reaches Paris where it has been acclaimed by both audience and critics.

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FOOD: from inside the spoon, to the world

At Museum MAXXI in Rome, Vertigo Design curated an important exhibition exploring relations between food and space, through architectures, stories and arts. During the Milan EXPO, the FOOD exhibition helped to discover more about architectures related to storage, distribution, consumption and disposal of food and raw-materials – encouraging a line-up on major topics such as the space and time we inhabit. It has been created a path, divided into six sections (Body, House, Street, City, Landscape, World) where the use of infographic techniques is important, allowing to explain difficult and always changing phenomena. Through murals, interactive maps, videos and 3D models, visitors are carried through the exhibition and its path.

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MFA Designer As Author / School of Visual Arts

After spending the last few days absorbing the incredible history of western typography through lectures and site visits, it was wonderful to sit down at Isia Roma Design school in Piazza della Maddalena and discuss what it's like to be a graphic designer in a city that is surrounded by historical inspiration. Vertigo Design Studio's work ranges from branding and packaging design to environmental graphics. Their work is smart and impactful with a balance between simplicity and complexity. The variety in the work they produce is supported by their belief in method over style. ". A designer must be able to use different expressive techniques for different contexts."

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