Articles of interest for the Textile Design area

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Fernando Del Vecchio Some ideas are too big We all have ideas. Some have great ideas. What is the difference between an idea and a big idea?

Pau De Riba Invisible Design After the “premium” stage where design acts as quality mark, good design should become a “commodity”, a component of the welfare society we take for granted.

Fernando Del Vecchio The challenge of communicating value A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.

Luciano Cassisi Less is Less, More is More The time is coming – to retire the nearly centenary motto «less is more».

Erik Spiekermann The Seventh Commandment The tribute, robbery and theft of authorship, have blurred boundaries in the design practice.

Fernando Del Vecchio And where are the opportunities? Somebody has a problem and somebody has the answer to that problem, but... ¿How can we do to meet this couple?

Martín Álvarez Comesaña Sign consumption Culture adherence to the speech of globalization require reviewing purposes and values design assumed.

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Premios Clap CLAP International Design Awards We launch the the first excellence awards for design, branding and communication professionals in Latin America.

Alvaro Magaña Design: accomplice or ally to consumption? In response to the article “Sign consumption”, the question arises: which is, or should be, design's relationship with economical culture?

André Ricard Craftsmanship and design Craftsmanship can not be limited to reproduce past tools and essentials. There is a minor market of handmade products that design should attend to.

Fernando Del Vecchio A passion for design Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?

Main illustration of the article Recipe book to get over the crisis with design

José Antonio Giménez Recipe book to get over the crisis with design Professionals from 14 countries give their opinions and reflections about the profession and its relation with businesses and society.

Fernando Del Vecchio Innovation on Design Is Not Inside Design Nowadays, is common to listen in almost every conversation “innovation” term. Everything must be “innovative”. However, innovation is not the same for everyone.

Main illustration of the article Kusi Kusi: Identity as a (regrettable) ‘State affair’

Victor Garcia Kusi Kusi: Identity as a (regrettable) ‘State affair’ A recognized puppet theater from Lima, multi-award winning internationally, active for half a century, is claiming against Channel 7 TV Perust for usurping their brand.

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Fernando Del Vecchio About Effectiveness Being efficacious entails doing the right things; being efficient, doing them correctly. Being effective means being efficacious and efficient.

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Marco Rinaldi Management vs. Leadership We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.

André Ricard The capacity of visualizing The essential of designing resides on the ability to imagine how things will work before they materialize.

David Gallo Planned Obsolescence Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.

Fernando Del Vecchio We Must Learn to Play the Game In the market there are good and bad designers, good and bad clients, all sort of competition and prices. All of them are some of the components of the game to play.

Main illustration of the article Paul Ricoeur and creative search

Cecilia Salinas Paul Ricoeur and creative search The origin of the creative act from a philosopher's perspective.

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