#c0untd0wn -05 for #milan2012 looking for seeds rug, design by matteo ragni for nodus
el proyecto congruente
illustration for glocal magazine about tobeus wooden toys, a sustainable project created by matteo ragni.
the illustrated tale of pop-up
a comic strip explaining an alternative origin for pop-up (a high tech assembly system of polymer modules) designed by matteo ragni for caimi brevetti. it’s the story of a lonely module that is continuously pierced out by notes and photos until he allies with some module friends finding an attachment system to stick together and to hold the notes and photos without being pierced.
photo courtesy matteoragni.com
the illustrated tale of fly
a comic strip explaining an alternative origin for fly (an hybrid object that combines a set of shelves and a video screen) designed by matteo ragni for liv’it. it’s the story of two shelves always making fun of an unstable video projector screen, after some time and with the help of the wind, the screen takes its revenge mashing itself up with the shelves, creating a new typology of product.
photo courtesy matteoragni.com
the illustrated tale of ponchotaxi
a comic strip explaining an alternative origin for the ponchotaxi (a two person poncho concept designed by Matteo Ragni for invicta). it’s the story of a young poncho and his grandpa cape. the cape teaches the poncho about chivalry and manners and then the poncho improves itself in order to help gentlewomen on dispair (weather dispair).
photo courtesy matteoragni.com
pietro (on the forrest)
illustration for the library pietro resta nella foresta, designed by matteo ragni & atelier bruno longoni, project part of the festival del design.
photo courtesy matteoragni.com
the illustrated tale of TOBEUS wooden toys
a comic strip explaining an alternative origin for the TOBEUS wooden car-toy family (designed by Matteo Ragni, Giulio Iacchetti & Odoardo Fioravanti), when revolutionary wooden logs run away from a fatal destiny in a pizzeria, rolling as cars and shape-trimmed while escaping.
images courtesy tobeus.it
the illustrated tale of how MOSCARDINO was created.
this is the hypothetical origin of Moscardino, a multi-purpose cutlery designed by Giulio Iacchetti and Matteo Ragni in 2000; being half spoon-half fork recalls a tale about two rival families and a forbidden love with a tragic end, in this case it creates this disposable “spork”.
images courtesy matteoragni.com
milano salone del mobile 2010: how objects are born
a compilation of some of the most interesting products presented in milan’s furniture fair, the projects where linked to their authors (international designers) to try to understand the logic that powered their ideas into products.
so we have a busy marti guixe trying to understand “quality time” with his blank wall clock for alessi, a fisherman michele de lucchi creating a net of lights (lednet) for artemide, a great application of technology & processes in the chair splarkling for magis by marcel wanders, a curvy and comfortable bent sofa by patricia urquiola for b&b italia, a biofireplace that uses ecofriendly fuel named tulip by matteo ragni, a greap map to the city of venice transformed into poliart, a coffee table designed by luca niccheto also for magis and tschichold, a d.i.y. chair from recycled materials courtesy of pirwi and designer emiliano godoy.
