God Jul - Buon Natale - Merry Christmas!

Holy night – naughty night

Sebastian Herner's Christmas tree “Holy night – naughty night” takes part in the 8th Christmas Tree Exhibition 2011 at the HfG Karlsruhe.
You can find more information on www.ohtannenbaum.org or on
Sebastian Herner's official website.

Free Christmas gift tags for you

Free Christmas gift tags courtesely from 'notion: creative' to their readers (I'm between them, naturally). You can download the pdf here and print it to have these beautiful tags to complete your packages.

Etichette Natalizie gentilmente offerte da 'notion: creative' ai suoi lettori (io sono tra loro). Potete scaricare i disegni in pdf qui e stamparli direttamente per dare il tocco finale ai vostri pacchetti.

The art of packaging

Looking for ideas to pack your gifts? Have a look at the Nice Package blog where I found the photos above. The first is a last year project by How about orange. For the second, read the instructions following this link. They're so nice!
State cercando idee per fare i pacchetti di Natale? Date un'occhiata al blog Nice Package, da dove vengono le foto sopra. La prima è un progetto dell'anno scorso di How about Orange. Per la seconda, seguite le istruzioni qui. Carine!

Origami Christmas Tree

Double Christmas tree designed and folded by Francesco Guarnieri, November 2011

Technique: unit origami, no cuts, no glue, 8 octagons of paper copy

(measures, from top: cm 12-9-18-15-24-21-30-27).

 

 

Bialbero di Natale ideato e realizzato da Francesco Guarnieri - novembre 2011 - con la tecnica dell'origami.

Addicted to pop bubbles?

Designed and made in Brooklyn, USA, the bubble calendar is a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop everyday, irresistable:-)

The bubble calendar has days of the week and all major holidays marked and weekends bolded for easy reference.
The calendars are printed on thick paper and set in Helvetica Neue.
Now, can you avoid looking for an excuse to pop more bubbles or maybe resist from pop the whole year the first day?
They are shipped via the Postal Service everywhere in the world; the paper-backed version retails at $20.11 and is available at http://www.bubblecalendar.com/

Ideato e realizzato a Brooklyn, USA, il calendario bolle è un calendario formato poster con una bolla d'aria da far scoppiare per ogni giorno dell'anno, irresistibile:-)
Stampato in Helvetica Neue, con i giorni festivi evidenziati.
Riuscirete a non fare scoppiare tutte le bolle in un giorno solo?
E' consegnato per posta in tutto il mondo al prezzo base di 20.11 dollari americani e ordinabile qui: http://www.bubblecalendar.com/

Christmas 2011 decorations in Firenze - 4

Beautiful handmade Christmas Tree in L'Ippogrifo shopwindow.

Stampe d'Arte L'Ippogrifo
Via Santo Spirito, 5r 50125 Firenze Italy
tel.-Fax: (+ 39) 055 213255
e-mail: info@stampeippogrifo.com
http://www.stampeippogrifo.com/

Florentine murales

Murales in via Santo Spirito, Firenze - December 2011

My Christmas 2011 window

I've just completed to decorate the window of my studio. This year I made a tree branch in two pieces: I sketched the form on cardboard, I cutted it and covered it with the most poetic page of newspaper I found. Then I hanged my silver decorations (you can easily make them yourself).

View from the inside

Ho appena finito di addobbare la finestra dello studio. Quest'anno ho costruito un ramo in due pezzi: prima ho disegnato la forma su un cartone di scarto, l'ho ritagliata e rivestita con una pagina di giornale - la più poetica che ho trovato. Poi ho appeso i decori a specchio e argento (se non li avete potete fare anche questi da soli con cartone e carta stagnola).

Winter 2011 Shopwindow in Florence - 4 -

Also this year, Louis Vuitton shopwindow is creative and colourful!
Have a look also at past year set.

November 2011 Vuitton's shopwindow in Florence

Anche quest'anno, la vetrina invernale di Louis Vuitton è creativa e coloratissima.
Guarda anche quella dell'anno scorso, se non la ricordi;-)http://lau.blogspot.com/2011/02/shop-windows-in-florence.html

Christmas 2011 shopwindows in Florence - 3 -

Crystallize is a project by the Jap designer Satsuki Oishi for the Italian Store La Rinascente. Using precious artisanal paper sheets, she recreates the apparently simple perfection of crystals.

Crystallize è il progetto della designer giapponese Satsuki Oishi per la catena di magazzini italiani La Rinascente. Usando fogli di preziosa carta artigianale, la designer ricrea l'apparentemente casuale perfezione dei cristalli.

Christmas 2011 shopwindows in Florence - 2 -

Talking about the famous Bic ball pen (have a look to the previoust post), when their ink is over, you can use them as Margherita Marchioni does in this set for Italian store La Rinascente.

Margherita Marchioni per La Rinascente - Firenze novembre 2011

A proposito delle famose penne a sfera Bic (vedi il post precedente), se finite l'inchiostro potete usarle come l'artista Margherita Marchioni in questa bella installazione per i magazzini italiani La Rinascente.

Bic celebrates 60 years

These two ball pen, gold and argent, are an elegant limited edition produced by the historic Societe Bic to celebrate her 60 years. Inside they are filled with black and blue ink. At the price of only 3,00 euros the couple!

Le due penne a sfera, oro e argento, sono un'elegante edizione limitata prodotta dalla storica ditta Bic per festeggiare 60 anni di attività. All'interno hanno l'inchiostro nero, la penna argento, e blu, la penna oro. Non male per 3,00 euro entrambe!

Rie Elise Larsen decorations

These beautiful winter decorations are suggested from the Danish designer Rie Elise Larsen's ws.

Qualche bel suggerimento per le decorazioni invernali dal ws della designer danese Rie Elise Larsen.

Rie Elise Larsen - Copenhagen
http://www.rieeliselarsen.dk/
info@rieeliselarsen.dk

First Christmas 2011 decorations in Forte dei Marmi - 1 -

These are the first decorations of Christmas 2011 I saw in the streets. Here I was in Forte dei Marmi and the beautiful trees were set by Mauro Volponi shop.

Procédés Chénel

From partitions to lighting, from ceilings to furniture, Procédés Chénel - architectures de papier - has kept since 1896 on doing researches on paper and the possibilities of using the material in design world.

Interesting and colourful!
If you are in Vanves le 8 december 2011, you can visit them for Paper Days :-)

Lightings shown in Milano

PROCÉDÉS CHÉNEL INTERNATIONAL :
70 rue Jean Bleuzen
92170 Vanves
Tél. : 00 33 (0)1 41 08 76 76
info@chenel.com
http://www.chenel.com/fr/accueil

Lichtfaktor: urban lightwriting

dENiZEN, shine a light for nature

The members of LICHTFAKTOR use light to give expression to their creativity. They take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night.

The Cologne artists’ collective, consisting of VJ $ehvermögen (photographer and VJ), Visionlabz (Programmer und VJ) and JIAR (communications designer and graffiti artist), experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. Their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and to develop it further. The LICHTFAKTOR crew intentionally uses the entire space in which a particular work is produced and integrates it into their photos and animated films in such a way that it’s not just a backdrop but a part of the work itself.

Visit LICHTFAKTOR website
HOW TO DO IT...

Ready for Halloween?

I found these beautiful decor ideas on the blog Charmed - october 2009 - and I like them! Do you have suggestions? Write me if you want to suggest me some interesting link :-)

Pucci pendant Les journees particulieres 2011

Yesterday, I visited La villa Granaiolo d'Emilio Pucci en Toscane , open for the event Les journees particulieres held all arond Europe (mostly in France) by LVHM group. It was a beautiful Sunday, cold but sunny and I really appreciated the dessins and colors of fabrics that made Emilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento famous.

My trip in Imola

 
Last Sunday, on a rainy day, I took a walk in Imola for the first time. I took some shots of the beautiful palette - from yellow to pink and orange - of walls and details in town, amazing!