Pitis & Tajber design the new Flash Art Magazine
For the March/April 2013 issue, Flash Art International will feature a brand new design - a clean and fresh look accompanied by new features and ideas.
Flash Art’s new identity was led by Art Director Maciej Tajber in collaboration with studio Pitis. The new design has aimed to keep in line with the spirit and history that Flash Art created 46 years ago, allowing content to be more legible and expressive. See more pages!
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Pitis on Type Directors CLub Annual
The brand new directory of the Type Directors Club American shows
the covers designed by the studio for Esperia Edizioni.
Visit the association website for more info
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Pitis, Lecture @ Ilas
Starts the annual cycle of free meetings organized by Ilas, Naples, with the most prestigious names in the world of visual communication: they will be protagonists of a meeting-debate on the profession of graphic design, and on their professional experience, achievements, the most curious anecdotes, their point of view on the future of the profession, in a free seminar open to the general audience of students, professionals, amateurs, and as a professor of exception for an intensive workshop dedicated to the development of graphic design. The first meeting is with Massimo Pitis.
Visit the school website for more info
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Designers & Books
Massimo Pitis was asked to select the books he loves the most. Among many other designers here is his intervention.
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Claudia Gian Ferrari
From November 9th to March 3rd 2013, Museo del Novecento will host two new exhibitions: Collecting the 1900s. Claudia Gian Ferrari gallery owner, collector and art historian, curated by Danka Giacon, exhibition designed by Daniel Libeskind, and Programming art. Olivetti and the kinetic neo-avant-garde curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Enrico Morteo, Alberto Saibene. The whole identity of the exhibition was designed by Pitis.
Visit the museum website for more info
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Costantino 313 d.C.
The Museo Diocesano is presenting the “Costantino 313 d.C. L’Editto di Milano e il tempo della tolleranza” exhibition to celebrate the Edict of Milan, which was proclaimed in 313 AD. The opening is on Wednesday October 24th at 7 pm. The exhibition will be on show at the Palazzo Reale until March 17th 2013. The event is a Pitis project. Electa Catalogue.
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Medaglia d'Oro all'Architettura
The Gold Medal for Italian Architecture 2012 exhibition opens today, 16 October at 11:30 am at the Triennale, Milano. The entire exhibition identity including the catalogue (published by Editrice Compositori) is by Pitis. Exhibition design by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners. Today we will finally discover the winner! For more info visit Triennale web site!
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MARBLEOUS
Don't miss the exhibition "Close up of the artist: Fabio Viale" at the Museo del Novecento, September 18–30, curated by Alessandra Galasso. The book "Close up of the artist: Fabio Viale", has been published on the occasion of Viale's exhibition. Fabio Viale
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COLOSSEO MERCHANDISING
New merchandising for the Colosseo published by Electa. Don't miss the brand new collection: t-shirt, shoppers and notes! Art-directions by Pitis, Illustrations by Alessandra Franciosini, type design by Alessandro Costariol
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LAZY DOG
Lazy Dog, a New Independent Publisher is Born! Lazy Dog produces exquisitely designed books of exceptional works in the fields of graphic design, typography, illustration, and phography. Debut title “Luca Barcellona: Take Your Pleasure Seriously”. Visit the website for more info www.lazydog.eu
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PITIS AWARDED AT THE TDC
We are glad to announce that Pitis is one of the TDC Communication Design Winners 2012. The books series “Tascabili Esperia” has been selected in the catergory book jacket.
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TYPE - LETTERING - LAYOUT Workshop
Massimo Pitis will be holding a 3-day workshop in Milan called Type-Lettering-Layout. In addition to a lecture on typefaces (including some of Pitis’ favorite fonts), participants will explore the wonderful world of typography through hands-on experimental exercises (creating posters, book covers, spreads). 25-26-27 May 2012 @Books Import, Milan
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Orti e Giardini
On the fifth of May, the “Palatine” of Rome will open its doors to a marvelous outdoor exhibition, “Orti e Giardini". In the very heart of the Ancient Rome has been recreated the flower gardens of the imperial palaces planting thousands of roses, quinces, viburnums, periwinkles, petunias…a walk discovering the splendor of the past, from Augustus to Farneses. Electa aked pitis to imagine this historic yet colorful world...
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Antinoo - the allure of beauty
Pitis meets ancient Rome and classical beauty in a new exhibition held at Villa Adriana, Tivoli. For more info visit Electa's web site.
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Tecnica Mista
Three brand new exhibitions at Museo del Novecento. For more info visit the museum website.
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Pitis @ Type Directors Club
“Pizza, pancakes and daily bread”. Massimo Pitis presents his work @ TDC Salon, Tuesday, March 6th, 6:30 p.m. For more info visit the tdc website.
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New logo for XL magazine
XL, the monthly music magazine of the Italian daily la Repubblica, has changed its format, design, and logo. The new logo, designed by studio Pitis and the widely-acclaimed calligrapher Luca Barcellona, will be presented Wednesday, Febraury 29th in Milan. For more info visit the magazine website.
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Conversations
TALK is a series of lectures on branding and corporate identity for museum curated by Massimo Pitis at Museo del Novecento. For more info visit the museum website
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Conversations
Conversations opens Thursday the 29th of September at Museo del Novecento in Milan. The exhibition presents a selection of photographs from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection, which is considered one of the most diverse corporate collections in the world. Pitis worked on the graphic design.
> See more and visit the museum website
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Artemisia Gentileschi
Today, Wednesday, September 21st, at Palazzo Reale
in Milan, the opening of the first Italian retrospective exhibition of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Presented by 24ORE Cultura, the exhibition is curated by Roberto Contini and Francesco Solinas, interior design by DWA, with the participation of Emma Dante. The entire exhibition identity including the catalogue is by Pitis. For more info visit the exhibition website
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MUJI Project for saving energy
MUJI approached a number of designers around the world and asked them to provide a design idea as an expression of support for Japan. Each designer was asked to draw his or her idea for energy in daily life within an "Enjoy! ( ) Energy." framework, and describe it in terms that fit within the parentheses. (...) The ideas received are being published on the MUJI website on an ongoing basis
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Silicon Valley: a WIRED guide
Going to California? From an idea of Matteo Bittanti, with contribution of Luca Barcellona (cover lettering) and Giuliano Tedesco (editing), Wired and Pitis designed a guide to discover the secrets of the Silicon Valley. And obviously, it comes just in a digital version! You can download it here or from Wired web site or wait and read it on your iPad. Available only in italian! > See more
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150
Pitis participated in an exhibition celebrating the unification of Italy on its 150th anniversary. Mario Piazza, curator of the event, invited 150 designers to freely interpret the number 150. Limit for the designers: three numbers for one hundred and fifty years.
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The New Burlesque
> See more and visit the photographer's website or the publisher catalogue!
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Spaghetti Vespa Typography
> See more and visit the initiative website or read about it on Design Week!
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I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman
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Settimio Benedusi's blog
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Museo del Novecento - Newspaper
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Esperia - new identity
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New Year's Eve
In modern Western practice, New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties and social gatherings spanning the transition of the year at midnight. Many cultures use fireworks and other forms of noise making in part of the celebration. New Year's Eve is observed universally on 31 December according to the year numbering of the Common Era, or A.D. Anno Domini convention, even in non-Christian nations. New Year's Eve is also the seventh day of Christmas in western Christianity. Traditional and religious celebrations for e.g. the Chinese, Muslim and Jewish new year, which occur on different dates, are still celebrated separately in the cultures that observe them, on the appropriate dates each year.
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Settimio Benedusi - Amnios
Studio Pitis designed a little booklet for photographer Settimio Benedusi show, Amnios.
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Mondadori Emozioni
Emozioni, the new series of Mondadori books designed by Studio Pitis, are now available at reputable newsagent's. See more.
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Pitis @ Jpeggy
On April 16th Massimo Pitis took part in the opening night of Jpeggy. Find out more at Jpeggy website.
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New Year's Eve
Life is getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and the year by year, gradually walking home.
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Casamania
Him & Her, the set of chair designed by Fabio Novembre for Casamania, led to the publication of the booklet that includes the photos of Settimio Benedusi. See more.
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Margherita&Co
Margherita & Co, the new pizza fast-food format, starts a commitment positioning it in the fast and tasty market, with top quality products made with original certified ingredients and super extended leavening.Pitis was tasked with the visual identity design and also took charge of art direction for photo illustrations on the menu board, in collaboration with Alessandra Avallone(home economist), Francesco Van Straten(photographer) and Francesca Salvemini (stylist). See more.
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Kenya Hara @ Polimi
Pitis invited mr Kenya Hara for a speech at Milan Politecnico See more images.
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Novembre - the monography
The monography "Fabio Novembre", published by Skira and written by Beppe Finessi, and designed by Pitis, features twenty years of works by the architect Fabio Novembre. See the book.
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Novembre - the exhibition
"Fabio Novembre - Insegna anche a me la libertà delle rondini", is the exhibition held at Rotonda della Besana, in Milan. Studio Pitis has been engaged for developing its visual identity, starting from the design of many means of communication, from the poster to the special issue of Urban Magazine.
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Space Morphing
Studio Pitis, together with Cristina Tomada of Migliore + Servetto Architetti Associati, designed the catalogue "Space Morphing", published by Five Continents. See some spreads from the book.
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Sorry Out of Gas
On November 2007, the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal launched the exhibition "1973 - Sorry Out of Gas". The catalogue Pitis designed, features some of the responses to the 1973 oil crisis offered by contemporary architects, engineers and thinkers. A closer look at their designs, solutions and experiments may help us meet the energy challanges faced by the world today. See more.