writing
Ivrea/Milan, September 2006
Interaction Design Primer
(with Walter Aprile and
Stefano Mirti)
In short, this is a book about design and technology: Learning by doing but doing what? 292 pages (and this is just vol.1) this book guides you through all sorts of exercises e.g. How to make a notebook, How to extract DNA from a banana (and how this relates to design), How to make a Turing machine or How to make a colorwalk. Really, it is also about all the important stuff in between. Published by Postmedia Books Milan, (check "anteprima").
San Francisco, September 2006
From ZORA with love · Postcards from San Francisco
"The other day I saw a man on the bus with a beat-up face. His nose
was bleeding and he kept sniffeling, trying to stop the bleeding with
his sleeve. Then, he tried to whistle along with the beeping of the bus
when it knelt. We all looked away." A series of postcards from a trip to the city by the bay. Travel notes for tourists, friends, for everyone. launch postcards
Düsseldorf, July 2006
Pool Position: How to win a girl's heart with design
A conversation
with Andreas Uebele, Professor of Typography at the University of
Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, who talks about how to design a succesful
message, his work, teaching typography and how he managed to have his
name appear in the credits of "Night on Earth" by Jarmusch. Published
in issue No.5 of idCAST: "Typography - in a Sense". idCAST
is a participatory monthly webzine published by our friends in Italy,
that is focusing on the thinking, the work, and the people that bridge
design, culture and technology.
Turin, December 2004
Paint by Pixels
Article in Cluster Magazine about Britta's time as a designer in San Francisco: We study design. We learn about visual communication. We learn how to make things. Then we enter the professional world and everything is different. Observations about the never changing role of the designer in an everchanging field. download pdf (510 KB)
THE DIARY SERIES
Italy, 2004 - 2005
The Ivrea Diary
Why flip-flops cannot be worn more than 500 metres away from the beach.
Why pasta has to be cooked with sale grosso. Why driving to your house
requires a permit and how to obtain one. Do Italians do it better?
Still missing the closing page. Maybe one day I will know what to write
there. I'm open for suggestions. launch diary
USA, September 2001
The Southwest Diary
Travel Diary from a the legendary trip to the four corners: Utah,
Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Stunning encounters with pure nature
and some of the most artifical places in the United States at the same
times. launch diary
Düsseldorf, January - March 2001
The Düsseldorf Diary
The first in a series of - so far - three online Diaries. A citizen of
San Francisco at the time I got to spend three months in my hometown: I am a tourist of my own past ...
launch diary
San Francisco, August 2000
Dirty Dancing
(...) my personal file at work
states: 'Wants to be a motorcycle racer' right below the question:
'What do you want to be doing two years from now?' This unedited
outbreak of insanity might be accounted to either a) my suspicion
towards American career procedures or b) the fact that I learned how to
check the tire pressure on my Ducati that same day.
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Minneapolis, August 2000
Breakfast in Nebraska
(...) By the time we get to Iowa the whole idea seems pretty pathetic, especially since we're driving right into a snowstorm.
Snowflakes dance in a dizzying twirl, reflected by the bright carlights. It's amazing how there simply isn't anything right or
left of the highway but snow on a vast, flat ground.
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