SIGNS 4
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Francesco Dondina
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum SIGNS, contemporary Italian graphics is an authorial exhibition that proposes from time to time a selection of Italian graphic designers, different for registries, culture, training, languages.A conversation between distinct worlds, reflecting on the many souls of the graphic designer’s craft, and treating difference as a cultural value. The authors/studies selected for this 2026 edition are: Atto, Chiara Zhu, Dario Carta, eee studio, Elia Barbieri, esc design, Federica Ricci, FIRM, Giga Design Studio, Giorgia Cadeddu, Giulia Boccarossa, pop-eye studio. The exhibition will be open until 8.11.2026 during the opening hours of ADI Design Museum.
BOOKSHOCK
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Susanna Vallebona
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum The exhibition project BOOKSHOCK is part of the research path developed by Oggetto Libro during five editions and seventeen exhibitions held nationally, in which the dialogue between two now complementary worlds was explored: that of design and that of art. Within this context, the book is assumed as a critical and design device, whose nature exceeds the editorial dimension to configure itself as a complex form of expression. The exhibition presents artists’ books that show how the book can transform, taking unexpected forms. Made with heterogeneous materials and techniques, these works sit between object and sculpture. Design books reaffirm the book’s centrality as a tool of communication, design and cultural transmission. A section of hybrid books, made through technique in all its variations, brings artistic and design questions together. Some works revisit tradition with a contemporary poetic charge; others open new experimental paths and answer a younger generation’s desire for innovation. Finally — in absolute preview — the exhibition proposes, alongside the artifacts and printed copies, a selection of immaterial works generated by means of artificial intelligence, capable of surprising and redefining the very concept of a book. In this context, BOOKSHOCK is configured as a critical device: a place where the book, in its many forms, allows us to examine the conditions of contemporary cultural production and the forms of its transmission. The exhibition will be open until 8.11.2026 during the opening hours of ADI Design Museum.
BEST BOOK DESIGN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Beautiful Italian Books
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum The selection of Best Book Design from All Over the World arrives in Italy as part of the International Graphic Biennial at ADI Design Museum. The exhibition makes visible an international geography of publishing production where the book emerges as the result of a complex chain that contributes to the construction of a design and public object. The exhibition takes on the character of an inaugural moment for the Italian context. Starting thisyear, Italy will join this international network of exchange and recognition for the first time: in fact, Beautiful Italian Books was born in 2026, which collects and curates aselection of editorial projects that will participate for the first time in Best Book Design from All Over the World in Leipzig. The exhibition therefore opens a new space of observation and comparison, reading the book in its final, complete form — where content and form support each other, and where conception, editorial project, design, printing and binding build a single entity through the collaboration of different skills and professions. The exhibition will be open until 8.11.2026 during the opening hours of ADI Design Museum.
ALFABETI MODERNISTI
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Luca Lattuga
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum Between the late 1920s and the 1940s, visual culture in Italy broke with Liberty decoration and ornament, moving towards a rational simplification of form: pure geometries, clear volumes, elementary harmonies. That modernist season is recorded not only in the well-known graphic works of its leading figures, but also in important — and by no means secondary — experiences at the margins. On the international stage of the time Italy occupied a marginal place in the production of printing types. A closer investigation, however, reveals a far richer picture: a multitude of now-forgotten alphabets, designed and produced by large foundries and smaller firms that absorbed the innovative drive of that cultural moment and spread its languages across the country. Typographic modernity entered Italy’s productive fabric, reaching even the most provincial workshops. Italian Modernist Alphabets offers a unique and comprehensive survey of a fragmentary and largely unexplored heritage. The exhibition recomposes and organises this material – wood and metal typefaces produced in Italy between the 1930s and 1940s – to return it to new possibilities of reading, comparison and contemporary interpretation.The display presents a careful selection of this material, much of it unpublished and in some cases surviving in unique specimens. Movable type, specimen sheets, printed matter and period documents bear witness to a vernacular design culture: often local knowledge, developed from below in small workshops, on the border between industry and craft. These types survived the post-war years and remained in use into the 1970s. The basis of this exhibition is a research begun fifteen years ago by Luca Lattuga, collector of typefaces, founder of Anonima Impressori and author of Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani published by Lazy Dog Press in 2025. The book presents, documents and reproduces in its entirety over 120 alphabets found throughout Italy on a long journey between large centres and extreme provinces - almost all of which belong to his personal archive.More than a historical reconstruction, “Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani” looks at a constellation of typographic experiments far from the main circuits of design history, and restores the complexity of the country’s visual culture. For the entire duration of BIG (22-25.10) at 17:00 there will be a guided tour of the exhibition, at the end of composition and printing at the printing press. The exhibition will be open until 8.11.2026 during the opening hours of ADI Design Museum.
ID-ICTIONARY
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Silvana Amato
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum Id-ictionary presents a selection of 70 posters made by designers who are members of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). The exhibition treats the poster as a visual language able to interpret and redefine words on the theme of sharing, and offers a view of contemporary research in international graphic design. Silvana Amato’s curation brings design cultures into dialogue, and underlines the communicative and experimental force of authorial graphic design. The exhibition will be open until 8.11.2026 during the opening hours of ADI Design Museum.
25x2=ANOTHER JOURNEY
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Matteo Carboni
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum A journey of almost five thousand kilometres across Italy: twenty-six encounters and an irregular map built along the way. A research experience, partly planned and partly left to chance, born from meeting people who live by design — of different generations, paths and sensibilities. Each conversation took place in a setting chosen by the other person: before a view, around an improvised table, walking, eating together. Space is never neutral: it enters the words, changes the time of listening and builds relationships. At the centre of the exhibition is the van that made the journey, gradually becoming home, studio and silent witness. Around it, the project takes shape through materials, images and traces of the conversations gathered on the road. The journey became a book, published in 2025 by Bug Edizioni + Lupetti Editore, that keeps the spontaneity of speech and the beauty of the imperfect, without turning conversation into final answers. It is not a collection of interviews, nor an essay on graphic design: it is an open space of questions, doubts, detours and people. In early 2026 the van set out again, to cross Italy once more and take the book on the road.
MUDDY DANCE, ERIK KESSELS
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by ADCI Art Directors Club Italiano
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum Muddy Dance is an exhibition celebrating the football movement. The players seem to perform a choreographed dance on a muddy field, tumbling and rolling in search of the ball... or not? This is an exhibition about football for lovers of art and design and, at the same time, an exhibition for all football fans. In Muddy Dance, Erik Kessels proposes a new gesture of re-appropriation of vernacular photography. Move the attention of the images from the ball to the movement: by erasing the ball from each shot, it transforms the game actions into spontaneous choreographies. Muddy Dance by Kessels brings to the fore the beauty of players' movements and transforms this popular sport into a real art form. The exhibition will be open until 8.11.2026 during the opening hours of ADI Design Museum.
AIAP COMMUNITY
22.10
Talk by AIAP
10:30 – 18:30ADI Design Museum AIAP Community is an AIAP event open to members, who present their visual communication projects and strengthen a sense of community — collective growth, exchange, reflection, experiment — in communication design. Selected designers each have 15 minutes, speaking not only about content and motives but about the backstage: ferment and impulse, dialogue with the client, intuitions and unexpected turns.
FESTIVAL NETWORK
22.10
Talk promoted by AIAP with BIG, Desina and Graphic days
10:30ADI Design Museum The Retwork of the Festivals was born from an idea of Graphic Days and AIAP with the aim of relating the Italian realities that promote the culture of communication design and visual cultures, favouring the exchange of experiences, skills, projects and opportunities. The public presentation of an informal memorandum of understanding brings together, for the first time, festivals and initiatives from different Italian cities, sharing a will to spread design culture and to support young talent and Italian visual culture, at home and abroad. The talk is also a chance to meet those who have joined the network and to share working methods and future prospects: circulating exhibitions and guests, sharing skills and contacts, developing new projects and seeking common funding.
IN ITINERE _ THE PROJECT JOURNEY
22.10
Talk by ISIA Roma
14:30ADI Design Museum Systemic Communication at ISIA Roma Design. The path of a design project is like preparing for a journey: you carefully choose the most suitable tools, share goals with your travelling companions, and remain open, with curiosity, to what you do not yet know.Like every journey, the project takes shape in the waiting, unfolds in the experience, and lives on in the memory. In ISIA Roma courses, students develop projects that imagine still-unexplored worlds, giving rise to experimental narratives and artefacts of an innovative, visionary character. Research extends from the tangible dimension of reality to the more intimate dimension of consciousness, in a process where form and content build each other. ISIA Roma, founded in 1973, is the first public university institute of design in Italy, awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1979 for its educational model.
WHAT'S BIG? 100 GRAMS OF WORK, COFFEE AND DESIGN
22.10
Presentation of the WHAT'S BIG? project by Moak, AIAP and BIG
15:30ADI Design Museum Page being updated. Further details about this event will be announced soon.
THE VALUE OF COLOUR IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
22.10
Talk by Fedrigoni con Manuela Bonaiti
16:30ADI Design Museum Manuela Bonaiti and FEDRIGONI explore colour as an active element of the contemporary project. For a designer, defining a palette often means laying bare: saying “I choose this color” requires responsibility and exposure. But how do we get to choose that exact shade of orange? That perfect shade that we have in our heads, but whose technical name we often don't even know? Colour does not exist in its pure state, but takes shape through materials, which carry with them precise perceptual, physical and productive rules. Constraints that can be ignored in the digital and AI world, but with which those who design in the real world must continuously dialogue. Choosing that precise orange is therefore not a random act or a mere gesture of intuition. It requires a strategy, and this strategy can be learned by approaching colour with method and discipline, transforming perception and emotion into a solid, conscious and replicable project tool.
TOUCH TO BELIEVE
22.10
Talk by Packaging Première
17:30ADI Design Museum Designing sensory accessibility in premium packaging Premium packaging speaks in codes: glossy surfaces, tone-on-tone colour, slender type, minimal text. These choices build perceived value, but they can become barriers. Legibility is not only a matter of type size: it is typeface, colour, finish, contrast, material. This meeting follows the packaging design process from the first physical element to the last informative detail: matter and surfaces (glossy or matt films, transparencies, metallisation, flow packs, deformability); colour and contrast as tools of recognition; finishing as a potentially functional, tactile language; typography and label design in wine and spirits. The aim is not to oppose accessibility and desirability, but to show that they can coincide. A readable, tactile, inclusive desirability is today a new form of quality — and of responsibility — for brands.
ERIK KESSELS, THE ECOLOGY OF THE EVERYDAY
22.10
Talk with Erik Kessels
18:30ADI Design Museum The Ecology of the Everyday is a key concept behind Erik Kessels' artistic practice, focusing on reusing and recycling existing images rather than taking new photographs. This ecological methodology is a kind of visual criticism of the current media saturation, pushing us to stop and look at ** really what we passively consume every day. This event will be held in English.
THE BRAND AS A LEVER FOR CORPORATE IDENTITY
23.10
Seminar with Gaetano Grizzanti, curated by AIAP
09:00–16:30ADI Design Museum Open to the public and addressed to graphic designers and visual communication professionals, the course is dedicated to corporate branding and identity systems for industry and service companies. A practical and critical session on the designer’s role in an organisation’s strategic and identity processes: from the relationship with the client to building a coherent, effective corporate identity. Places are limited. To be given priority, book at aiap@aiap.itFee: €49, or €9 for AIAP membersA certificate of attendance will be issued. Full details
URBAN ARCHIGRAPHY
23.10
Talk by Migliore+Servetto
10:30ADI Design Museum Signs, senses and shared identity. Urban archigraphy — the set of signs of function, identity and belonging — is a visual system to be inhabited. It points to destinations and tells the traveller what they will find along the way, and why. A cornerstone of urban identity, it defines an inclusive, dynamic language that can both guide and generate a sense of community. The talk opens a reflection on environmental graphic design in shaping a neighbourhood’s identity — a kind of urban tattoo in the making. What is a neighbourhood? An invisible border, or a weave of stories? Where does it begin, where does it dissolve, and how far does it belong to us?Like a human being, urban archigraphy brings together the Kantian crossing of intellect and reason — the first generating knowledge, the second meaning — joined by passion, the lever that nourishes belonging.
WRITING, EDITING FOR RESEARCH
23.10
Talk by Valeria Bucchetti / Politecnico di Milano
11:30ADI Design Museum A communication design series. For more than fifteen years the series published by FrancoAngeli has reflected on research in communication design, focusing on the themes and perspectives of the discipline’s evolution. Is there a future for research publishing? Giovanni Baule, Letizia Bollini, Clorinda Galasso, Francesco Guida and Salvatore Zingale discuss how research circulates — and how it might develop.
THE SHAPE OF IDENTITY
23.10
Talk by Peter Schmidt Group
14:30ADI Design Museum Design never starts from scratch. Each generation works with forms, ideas and conventions that already exist — and modifies them to suit their own idea of progress, identity and modernity. From the beginnings of corporate design in the early 20th century, through the confidence and optimism of the 1950s, to today's global brands, this talk explores how typography has helped build identity in different historical moments. The interesting part is not simply how styles change, but why they change. What made a certain shape look right for its time? What is carried forward, what is abandoned and what is reinterpreted? The past is not something to be copied. It's something to work with. The Shape of Identity explores how typography can tap into history without becoming nostalgic — and how familiar forms can be transformed into something specific, recognisable and relevant to the present. This event will be held in English.
BE BRAVE!
23.10
Talk by ADCI Art Directors Club Italiano
15:30ADI Design Museum Italian graphics lives a unique and extraordinary paradox. On the one hand there is an overwhelming energy: classrooms full in design schools and festivals such as BIG that record everything sold out, a sign of a discipline in excellent health. On the other hand, young people are faced with precariousness, uncertainty and difficulty in entering the market, oscillating between disillusionment and catastrophism. There are those who see a permanent crisis and those who, on the contrary, recognize its extraordinary vitality. To overcome this stalemate, the meeting promoted by ADCI compares the experience of three professionals. The goal is to attempt a synthesis through five keywords:Coraggio to dare and overcome traditional boundaries.Insofferenza towards the status quo and visual clichés.Transgression to break the rules and innovate.Enthusiasm as the engine of each new vision.Passione as a lifeblood to resist and impose itself. An aptitude tool kit, even before being professional, to survive in the universe of contemporary visual cultures.
Alliance Graphique Internationale
23.10
Talk with Silvana Amato e Carlo Vinti
16:30ADI Design Museum The international profile of Italian graphics.
OWN YOUR AURA!
23.10
Talk by Peter Schmidt Group
17:30ADI Design Museum The myth factor in brand building — and the destructive power of an obsession with performance. Today brand building is expected to be measurable, optimised by algorithms and AI agents, and therefore as efficient as possible. Yet a brand’s most valuable asset cannot be decoded from data: it is the fascination it exerts on people, and the cultural context in which that fascination takes shape. Since its founding in 1972, Peter Schmidt Group has cultivated the aura of brands — a path that began with Jil Sander, a house whose strength and luminosity remain unchanged. The same philosophy guides the agency’s current work for clients such as Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Telekom and Weleda: design that can create myth and aura makes brands distinctive, relevant and, ultimately, more valuable than competitors driven only by the pursuit of performance. This event will be held in English.
THE DESIGNER AS ACTIVIST
23.10
Talk with Patrick Thomas
18:30ADI Design Museum Drawing on projects from his own practice, Patrick Thomas will speak about what happens when designers step beyond the conventional role of service providers and begin to treat their work as a form of political and social engagement. This event will be held in English.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE DALTON MAAG RETAIL CATALOGUE
24.10
Talk with Riccardo De Franceschi / Dalton Maag
10:30ADI Design Museum Universality or individuality? Function or expression? Convention or innovation? Navigating the digital type market means holding opposing forces in balance — an exercise Dalton Maag’s retail catalogue has pursued for thirty-five years. Riccardo takes us behind the scenes to tell the work of a team of designers and developers spread across three continents, retracing challenges and successes through some of the collection’s most significant typefaces, from the viewpoint of those who designed them.
NOT ENOUGH BY DESIGN
24.10
Talk by Zetafonts with Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Debora Manetti
11:30ADI Design Museum What drives a designer never to settle? “Not Enough by Design” explores the creative tension that pushes a project beyond form, towards sense, intention and meaning. Design and typography become tools for shaping ideas, communicating with greater awareness and leaving a positive trace for the future. A path through ambition, responsibility and doubt, in which impostor syndrome is not necessarily a limit: it can become a drive to experiment, to keep questioning oneself, and to look for new possibilities.
DESIGNING TYPE REVIVALS: ALFABETI MODERNISTI
24.10
Talk by CAST Foundry
12:30ADI Design Museum Alfabeti Modernisti is a CAST project dedicated to rediscovering and digitising 25 Italian typefaces designed between 1920 and 1940, originally cut in wood and lead and collected by Luca Lattuga. The revival was not a mere transfer of the originals: each typeface was interpreted and adapted to the digital medium, addressing imperfections and inconsistencies and expanding the glyph sets for contemporary use. The talkretraces this process, from selecting and digitising the typefaces through to their communication and circulation.
ALFABETI MODERNISTI
24.10
Talk with Carlo Vinti, Luca Lattuga
14:30ADI Design Museum What does it mean, today, to take on the ancient craft of movable-type printing? The first obstacle is to build a workshop. Unless you inherit the trade, recovering tools, materials and type from a technique that has almost disappeared demands skills far beyond the graphic arts: becoming designer, compositor, researcher, dealer in discarded materials, mover — and sometimes even mechanic.In fifteen years of research and adventure, chasing material from old print shops closing in every corner of Italy, I have built a substantial archive. The extraordinary variety of alphabets found — many without name, author or documentation — opened a question: how much do we really know about twentieth-century Italian type culture? Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani, a research project on movable type produced in the 1930s and 1940s, is my answer to an intuition born in the field. The research reconstructs the historical, aesthetic and manufacturing context, surveying original Italian alphabets, relating them to the international scene and, at the same time, deepening their territorial specificities.What emerges is a heritage far more complex, rich and varied than we have known until now.
SENSE & SENSIBILITY
24.10
Workshop curated by Zetafonts, with Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini
16:30–19:00ADI Design Museum Ragione & Sentimento is a workshop that aims to guide participants on a fascinating journey between the geometric rigor of shapes and the warm naturalness of handwriting, showing how even seemingly simple characters can reveal surprising emotional nuances. The art of drawing letters has always moved between a rational, geometric dimension and a more expressive one, tied to calligraphic gesture.Examining some classics of sans serif drawing – from Futura by Paul Renner to Gill Sans by Eric Gill - the workshop will allow you to learn to distinguish between geometric sans and humanist sans. A subtle but essential distinction to consciously use typographical fonts, in order to influence not only the aesthetic appearance, but also the emotional perception of a text. Participation is free. →Subscribe
BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN BOOKS
24.10
Talk by Federica Ricci, Emilio Macchia
16:30ADI Design Museum The talk presents Beautiful Italian Books as a cultural project still under construction — from its beginnings and its development inside a community that supports its structure and orients its prospects. It moves through the project’s constitutive elements — the jury, the exhibition, the catalogue — placing Beautiful Italian Books in dialogue with historic partner awards: devices through which to read different approaches to selecting, judging and presenting contemporary publishing, and the design and material conditions behind it. The talk then turns to the international circuit Best Book Design from All Over the World, which brings together 34 countries already active in national book-design awards, and which Italy now joins. In the Italian context, where the specifics of cultural policy bear directly on the quality of publishing, international comparison becomes a necessary space of reading and verification: crossing practices, skills, production systems and economic models, and reading the book as the outcome of complex material and design conditions.
ILBRO
24.10
Talk with Leonardo Sonnoli
17:30ADI Design Museum “Everything important I have ever done could fit in a small book” (M.D.) The book is one of those ancient inventions that lasts without changing form.A series of sheets, fastened on one side. They can vary in a few significant details that condition the ideas they hold; and the ideas they hold influence the choice of those details. A presentation of some extraordinary books that contain art — and of a few of my own attempts to put art inside a book.
BOOK ON BOOKS / EVENT CANCELLED
24.10
Talk with Irma Boom
Event cancelled.
MONOGRAMS
25.10
Talk with James Clough, Fabrizio Falcone
16:30ADI Design Museum Monograms are extreme simplifications of alphabetic communication and this book demonstrates how they are more powerful, expressive and meaningful than logos. With hundreds of illustrations, accompanied by the author's comments, anecdotes and stories, Monogrammi is the very first narrated story dedicated to this subject. Part 1 explores the evolution of styles, from the coins of ancient Greece through the centuries to the modernism of the twentieth century – the last movement characterized by a recognizable general style. Part 2 focuses on the multiple approaches to design adopted after World War II, during the rise of consumerism and the consequent need for competitive ideas. Selected monograms of famous and lesser-known designers, and even some students, are analyzed and discussed.
ITALIAN GRAPHICS ARE (STILL) IN EXCELLENT HEALTH
25.10
Talk by Grafica Magazine
16:30ADI Design Museum Page being updated. Further details about this event will be announced soon.
TOWARDS A MUSEUM OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
25.10
Round table promoted by BIG and AIAP CDPG (AIAP Graphic Design Documentation Centre)
10:30ADI Design Museum On the closing day of BIG – Biennale Internazionale Grafica 2026, the organisers, together with AIAP, the Italian association for visual communication design, host a round table on the possible future founding of a museum of graphic design. Milan, internationally recognised as one of the capitals of design, has several institutions that promote design culture, but none specifically dedicated to graphic design. Since 2009 AIAP has run a Graphic Design Documentation Centre (AIAP CDPG), which now holds one of the most significant documentary collections in the field: some 125 fonds in the names of well-known and lesser-known figures of Italian and international graphic design. A unique heritage — a historical archive and a rich specialist library — that allows the Association to curate exhibitions in Italy and abroad, to promote research, to open the holdings to scholars and students, and to keep precious documents and testimonies from being scattered.From the outset AIAP CDPG has seen itself not only as an archive, a place of conservation, but as an agent of dissemination and knowledge. To strengthen the case for a future museum dedicated to graphic design and communication design, the round table brings together testimonies and experiences from organisations of many kinds, from all over Italy.The aim is to foster mutual knowledge, collaboration — and, in time, a foundation.
THIS CHARMING MAG
25.10
Talk by NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
17:30ADI Design Museum Independent publishing as an educational project. NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti presents This Charming Mag, a meeting dedicated to the role of independent publishing as a tool for research, experimentation and training within the Academy.Through magazines made in recent years by students of the two-year specialised programme in Visual Design and Integrated Marketing Communication, the event traces the evolution of the editorial project in magazine form, following the creative process of an independent publication: from concept to art direction, from content to graphic design.A workshop in contemporary narrative design that tests the magazine format — stressing and questioning it as a container and expression of content, languages and forms — in order to give space and life to independent cultural projects that mirror the research and design vision of a new generation. Speakers included Roberto Maria Clemente, Art Director and lecturer NABA, Francesca Spiller, founder Reading Room, Giulio Vescovi, founder and Creative Director of inCFstudio, Manuela D'Orsi, Managing Editor nss edicola, Editor nss magazine and Alumna NABA, Fabio Pelagalli, Course Leader of the Specialist Bienni in Visual Design and Marketing Communication and in User Experience Design of NABA.
FROM THE EYE TO THE HEART
25.10
Talk with Armando Milani
18:30ADI Design Museum Armando Milani, undisputed master of international graphics, has dedicated his work for years to social and ethical design, intended as a tool to shake consciences and promote global dialogue. This philosophy has found one of its greatest expressions in Nicosia, Cyprus, the last divided capital of Europe, where his famous work for the UN War to Peace has become an imposing mural of peace. In the heart of the old city, the image shows a dove removing the letter A from the word WAR (war) to transform it into PEACE (peace), transforming a border wall into a powerful symbol of reconciliation and hope.
THE A FORWARD!
from 22.10 to 8.11
Exhibition curated by Maria Canella
10:30 – 19:45ADI Design Museum The graphic “sign” of the historic newspaper of Italian socialism The Aldo Aniasi Foundation presents the interpretation that sixty artists have given of the A of Avanti! An exhibition, therefore, not on a newspaper, although rich in history, but on a “sign”. The exhibition re-proposes more than 60 works by artists, graphic artists and illustrators who had been called upon to interpret the title of the historical headline of Italian socialism in 1983 for an exhibition organised by the Circolo di via De Amicis: even then a discourse was proposed that clearly surpassed the graphic and pictorial fact. As Aldo Aniasi wrote in the introduction to the exhibition catalogue: "the wide participation confirms the vitality of a sign that has stimulated the imagination and creativity of established artists. All performers with a strong communicative impact".
UPROOTED – DECOLONIZING FURNITURE DESIGN
24.10
Talk by Peter Schmidt Group
11:30ADI Design Museum Uprooted explores how colonialism and globalization have shaped furniture design, from formal aesthetics to materials, while disconnecting traditional practices from their cultural contexts. The project gives life to a compendium that relocates a selection of furnishings within their cultural, historical, political, ecological and economic contexts. Divided into the Form & Material sections, the book analyzes culturally specific forms and materials, shaped by colonialism and global exchanges.
TRANSFORM, LEARN, RELEASE
24.10
Talk by Peter Schmidt Group
10:30ADI Design Museum Transform, Learn, Liberate is a guide to designing web-based generative design tools through creative coding. Its main objective is to show how designers can develop their own tools and become independent from pre-packaged software dictated by large companies. The guide is also supported by industry use cases and three generative design tools developed over the course of a year: Type Morpher, Flexible Motion Grid, and Rhythmic Glyphs. All tools are freely accessible to anyone. The project received a Bronze ADC Nail and an ADC Recognition, was exhibited at the annual exhibition “20 aus 24” in Hamburg and was published in Slanted's new book, “Digital Tools”. Project: https://tll-creativecoding.com/
