Current Issue: Domus 891

Cover. Geo-Design

Graphics by 46xy studio, 2006

Almanac. News and events

Edited by Elena Sommariva

Ettore Sottsass

Pictures from a window

Geo-design > Designing objects communicating, manufacturing, surviving

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini

Tribal bikers. Pierre Terblanche / Ducati

As a cult, the motorbike has its followers. Text by Francesco Librizzi. Photography by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Laura Bossi, Matteo Poli

4.000.000 WCs Istanbul Collection. Ross Lovegrove / VitrA

From Turkey, to the world. Text by Gianluigi Ricuperati. Photography by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Joseph Grima, Francesca Picchi

Solar Open Source. Roger Bernard

Small ideas for big results. We have much to learn from those who live in a state of chronic poverty. Edited by Francesca Cogni

My life with the tuk-tuk

A tribe of metropolitan velociraptors. All different, personalised and freely decorated by their mad drivers. Text and photos by Rachaporn Choochuey, Stefano Mirti

Andrea Branzi - Jacopo Zibardi. Letter to Domus

Teaching and learning design

Geo-design > Domestic shell. Erwan, Ronan Bouroullec / Vitra

The house as a plastic igloo? Photography by Ramak Fazel, Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec. Edited by Francesca Picchi

Home sweet home. The worker chair – Hella Jongerius / Vitra

Quality wood, pieces of material, metal gears. Detail is everything. Photography by Ramak Fazel. Edited by Francesca Picchi

Hot-pot Telephone. Lenovo Innovation Design Centre

Refinement can also generate simplicity. Text and photos by Charlie Koolhaas. Edited by Joseph Grima

In praise of the limited edition.Gaetano Pesce / Gaetano Pesce Ltd

Self-production as a communication strategy. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

The ethic of bricolage. Liyat Esakov, Marjetica Potrc

How sad – all stupidly different, all uselessly furnished – are our public toilets! Testo di/Text by Marco Scotini. Photography by Andre Cypriano, Marjetica Potrc. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

The colours of white. Michele De Lucchi, Philippe Nigro, Franco Raggi / Artemide

Light is the subtlest massage. Trials for a 3d white. Text by Paolo Inghilleri. Photography by Donato Di Bello. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Light equilibrium. Naoto Fukasawa / Artemide

Two black disks: tiny, yet balanced; small but gigantic. Photography by Donato Di Bello. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Perforating is communicating. Steven Holl / Horm

A sculpture object that makes you think of the world of engraving. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Woven from waist. Alejandro Sarmiento / Las Tunas

Waste can be used to make a thread of fibre. Text by Carolina Muzi. Edited by Francesca Picchi with Luján Cambariere

Jasper Morrison

Super Normal

Geo-design > Thanks to National Geographic – Tokujin Yoshioka

A foam chair, leavened like bread and modelled to one’s liking. Text by Fumiko Ito. Edited by Rita Capezzuto

Auteur design. Vico Magistretti / Fiam

Shape like the improvised stroke of a pen. Photography by Paolo Imperatori, Alberto Narduzzi. Edited by Laura Bossi

Tarzan&Jane: Kara Walker - Jonathan Horowitz

America. An encounter between two artists

Books

Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Rassegna: Furniture

Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini. Literature graft: Roberto Monelli

Panorama

Paul Virilio

Chernobyl twenty years later