Luciano Cassisi
Less is Less, More is More
The time is coming - to retire the nearly centenary motto «less is more».
Textile Design
Thoughts, case studies, book reviews, debates and tips of interest for Textile Design, written by prominent authors and carefully edited by FOROALFA.
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?
Fernando Del Vecchio
A passion for design
Who doesn't want to feel passion for what he or she likes, and loves?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
About Effectiveness
Being efficacious entails doing the right things; being efficient, doing them correctly. Being effective means being efficacious and efficient.
Marco Rinaldi
Management vs. Leadership
We don't need to manage the present but we should lead the future.
Fernando Del Vecchio
The challenge of communicating value
A question to which creative entrepreneurs have no answer to: the value of their proposal.
Premios Clap
CLAP International Design Awards
We launch the the first excellence awards for design, branding and communication professionals in Latin America.
Martín Álvarez Comesaña
Sign consumption
Culture adherence to the speech of globalization require reviewing purposes and values design assumed.
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?
Cecilia Salinas
Paul Ricoeur and creative search
The origin of the creative act from a philosopher's perspective.
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.
André Ricard
The capacity of visualizing
The essential of designing resides on the ability to imagine how things will work before they materialize.
