The Design Issue
Abstract
The new cycle of ARCHIVIO continues: four thematic issues, each edited by a Guest Editor specialized in the field in order to have an expert eye to open the doors of the archives and show you where to look in these vast worlds.
Following The Fashion Issue, ARCHIVIO N°10 is dedicated to Design and edited by Jasper Morrison—an internationally renowned British designer, and Marco Sammicheli—director of the Museo del Design Italiano at Triennale Milano. Editorial direction is by Daniela Hamaui, while the art direction is by Alessandro Gori.
For our cover and first pages, Morrison assembled an imaginary archive of everyday objects from different places, made at different times, related by character or a shared understanding of what it is to be an object.
ARCHIVIO N°10, offers a mapping of the design archives international landscape at this moment in time and a privileged look at the many international design archives, allowing us to admire their eclecticism and heterogeneity, and dividing them into three sections, “Organizations”, “Brands”, and “Designers & Creatives”.
It also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the many design archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria Group, ARCHIVIO’s publisher, visually processed by Accurat. The result is a map that is also a small work of art.
Jasper Morrison,“Forget about Time, forget about Place, forget about Type, Material, Value, Quality or Condition, an archive can be anything you want it to be, there are no rules.”
Guest Editor
Glimpse of the Month
Bitossi Ceramiche — Rimini blu
By Marina Vignozzi
Rimini blu is a complex series, designed by Aldo Londi and produced in millions of pieces by Bitossi Ceramiche since 1959. It is the result of experimental flair and technological innovation combined with material, manual and craftsmanship skills.
We are in the 1950s, at a time of extraordinary complicity between companies and clients, between artisans and designers, between the product and its user. An enterprising artistic director, Aldo Londi (1911- 2003), supported by the owners of the company, channeled all these impulses into meticulous research on intriguing ‘alchemical’ themes, formal investigations with explicit modernist attention and primitivist suggestions.
Credits:
All images © Delfino Sisto Legnani. © Agnese Bedin
