Design has the power to change the world. The next generation of creators who participated in the Lexus Design Award 2017 international competition received support and training from LEXUS, and one designer, out of 1,...

LUCA YETY BATTAGLIA

2010.11.4　 Text: Yukiko Oyama

Luca "Yety" Battaglia, when I saw his bizarre but interesting middle name, instantly, I knew there was something unique about him. Looking at his artwork, I sensed his anarchic/punk spirit along with deeper messages t...

MARIA VITTORIA BENATTI

2009.6.4　 Text: Mariko Takei

Maria Vittoria Benatti aka hi! works as a freelance visual designer based in Modena, Italy, one hour half away from Milan by train. Her works are characterized by cute and lovely figures which she calls them as Pupett...

LISA FARMER

2008.4.29　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Born and raised in USA, Lisa Farmer had been exposed to an array of different disciplines in the design field in different world cities with different world people. And now she presents her own unique and artistic pr...

GIULIANO FUJIWARA

2008.4.8　 Text: Naoko Wowsugi

In 1986, Mr. Yoshiaki Fujiwara debuted the Fashion Brand giuliano Fujiwara in Milan. After his death, Mr. Masataka Matumura became the designer when he was just twenty-five. His collection debut was a year later. That...

BRUNO MUNARI

2008.1.30　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

One of 20th century’s most interesting Italian creative force. Scultura da Viaggio, 1958. Ferro Verniciato, 43x50x54cm. Private Collection, Milano The presence of Bruno Munari spanned so many decades of Italia...

HOT CHIP

2006.10.5　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Let's consider this gig the real re-opening party for a city that have languished for the whole summer break since the alternative celebration provided by the art world - Start, a weekend of vernissages - has been dis...

LIGHTNING BOLT

2004.12.4　 Text: Roberto Bagatti

Lightning Bolt, the two-piece band from Rhode Island (USA) played an electrifying show at Milan's COX (otherwise know as Conchetta) social center. One of those shows I'm glad to have not missed. Though it may be ha...

BO130 & MICROBO

2004.7.3　 Text: Roberto Bagatti

"Being a graffiti writer is about taking the chances and shit, taking the risks, taking like all the arguments from the police, from your own mom, you know from your friends and shit. You know, you've got to take all ...

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

2004.5.3　 Text: Roberto Bagatti

Pause is the first edition of a series of concerts and video projections inside Milan's beautifully suggestive cathedral. Largely built between 1366 and 1485, the cathedral is undeniably one of the most emblematic loc...

LUC FERRARI

2004.4.3　 Text: Roberto Bagatti

Luc Ferrari is a pioneer in the history of electronic music. Without his work many of the common properties of today's electronic music probably wouldn't even exist. Born in Paris in 1929 he began composing in the lat...

MASSIMILIANO GIONI

2004.3.3　 Text: Roberto Bagatti

The youngest generation of Italian art spreads thousands of posters around Milan, from the center to the suburbs. More than an exhibition you could call it an invasion of images that are speaking a different language ...