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  • Opere 30 With the issue 30 D'Apostrophe continues working on the art direction, the graphic design and the layout of the three-monthly tuscan architecture magazine. The monographic issue deals with themes about the relationship with the city, architecture and territory. A relevant topic that, in the issue, deepens aspects related to the underground buildings introduction on the regional territory correlating them with experiences of international cultural panorama.

    editor: Guido Incerti
    art direction: D'Apostrophe
    client: Fondazione Professione Architetto
    publisher: Pacini Editore
    cover: Gloria Pizzilli         April 2012 Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
  • Opere 29 With the issue 29 D'Apostrophe continues working on the art direction, the graphic design and the layout of the three-monthly tuscan architecture magazine. The monographic issue deals with themes about the relationship with the city, architecture and cultural infrastructures. A relevant topic that, in the issue, deepens aspects related to the cultural buildings introduction on the regional territory correlating them with experiences of international cultural panorama.

    editor: Guido Incerti
    art direction: D'Apostrophe
    client: Fondazione Professione Architetto
    publisher: Pacini Editore
    cover: Jonathan Calugi         February 2012 Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
  • La Casa del III Millennio 2011 The exhibition "La Casa del III Millennio", held in Prato during December 2011, has been the result of a research path on the "house system" territorial potential, starting with the selection, through a public contest, of architects and designers that will work close quarters with Prato CNA's firms. The aim was that of drive the creatives in finding alternative solutions both for the envelope and the components of the house, those have to be durable and hand-crafted, created from the production wastes to design luxury products, planned around the human being to ease life and daily actions, or simply to get excited. The winners and the projects selected by the exhibition's scientific committee were developed with the companies during a workshop coordinated by Gilberto Corretti (Archizoom) with the perspective of a united mounting vision of the III Millennium House. The exhibition's fitting and visual system concept has been developed following the idea of sustainability and materials recycle.

    client: CNA - Artigianato Pratese
    curator: Gilberto Corretti

    exhibition design: Gilberto Corretti
    with: D'Apostrophe
    and: Alessandra Vannucci

    press office and coordination: Re.publique

    visual design: Artex         December 2011 Exhibition Design, Design
  • Autopsia della politica italiana D'Apostrophe realized three artworks for the collection of 38 infographics concerning the Italian political costs. The volume, the first of the new book's series "Atlanti Civili", contains tables illustrating in a clear and direct way all the unwarranted advantages and the excessive spendings of the italian political class, the unnecessary local authotity costs and the State burdens towards Vatican, and convey understandably the meaning of data, numbers, statistics and percentages. The approached topics for D'Apostrophe were those specific in "Consultancies and boards of directors", "Berlusconi and taxes" and "Corruption and Judiciary".

    publisher: Nuovi Mondi
    curators: Cristiano Lucchi and Gianni Sinni         November 2011 Illustration, Graphic Design, Information Architecture
  • Opere 28 With the issue 28 D'Apostrophe continues working on the art direction, the graphic design and the layout of the three-monthly tuscan architecture magazine. The monographic issue deals with themes about the relationship with the city, architecture and religions. A relevant topic that, in the issue, deepens aspects related to the islamic buildings introduction on the regional territory correlating them with experiences of international cultural panorama.

    editor: Guido Incerti
    art direction: D'Apostrophe
    client: Fondazione Professione Architetto
    publisher: Pacini Editore
    cover: Giorgio Fratini         September 2011 Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Art Direction
  • Cubo Design Visual and identity design for the new Giulio Tanini showroom dedicated to interior design, in wich are exposed contemporary avant-garde collections and unique innovative items. Cubo Design matches emerging designers projects, selected in the international scene, with new collections by famous brand, exclusive for distribution. D'Apostrophe looked after the space image realizing logotype, web-site, teaser, shopper and advertisings.

    client: Giulio Tanini spa
    design: D'Apostrophe         June 2011 Branding, Interior Design, Web Design
  • Giulio Tanini On the occasion of the of the enlargement of the Giulio Tanini Florence store, D'Apostrophe curated the restyling of visual, corporate identity and communication design. They dressed the new spaces and windows expositive fittings of the showroom, and designed the new website, the inner signposting, the gadgets, the invitations and flyer, the press and online advertising releases.

    design: D'Apostrophe
    printing: Emmeci Grafiche
    forex panels and window decals: Grafiche Baciocchi         June 2011 Graphic Design, Interior Design, Web Design
  • San Marino Design Workshop Eight workshops based on "Wellness Design, comfortable, safe, usable" topic, organized by the Industrial Design Degree course of San Marino University - IUAV. It emphasize our relationship with objects, systems and services that we daily come in contact with. The modern conditions put us forward a double demand: to one side the need to feel secure as regards the present rough conditions, on the other side the will of reach a well-being condition, both physical and mental. D'Apostrophe, wich was entrusted the task of designing the event's corporate identity, has developed the visual system referring to the first interface of 1.0 Macintosh system, that represents the archetype of a "new" way of conceive design. Usable, comfortable and safe, that is the first example of modern user-friendly design.

    client:
    - Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino
    - Università IUAV di Venezia

    scientific responsible:
    - Alberto Bassi

    scientific coordination:
    - Massimo Brignoni
    - con Alessandra Bosco e Riccardo Varini

    coordination and communication:
    - Fiorella Bulegato feat. Andrea Bastianelli

    visual and exhibit design:
    - D'Apostrophe
    - feat. Marianna Calagna e Ester Greco

    web development:
    - Pietro Costa         July 2011 Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Editorial Design
  • Opere 27 Art direction and editorial design of Opere, Italian magazine about architectonic Tuscan culture. With issue 27 starts the restyling of the magazine, that has been reset for an user more design conscious. Local topics of this numbers are compared with national and international realities. This issue faces a very important Florentine topic, the zero volume architecture, told by D'Apostrophe towards a graphic and illustrative system that reminds to old tridimensional poster typography.

    editor: Giulio Incerti
    art direction: D'Apostrophe
    client: Fondazione Professione Architetto
    publisher: Pacini Editore         May 2011 Art Direction, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
  • Ex.t New corporate identity's development for the young brand that expanded his own design offer from the bathroom area to the whole home sector. D'Apostrophe has dealed primarily with the realization of the new press campaign in charge of launch the new Ex.t identity. The base idea was that of creating an ideal background – the Doll House – a total white double volume wherein put on the colored and playful objects of the new Spring/Summer Collection 2011. At the same time, all the others communication media has been adapted, for example the catalog, a wide suggestive brochure – inspired by life –, the institutional website and a video in stop motion.

    client: Dex spa
    art direction and graphic design: D'Apostrophe
    shooting: industrial Foto
    printer: Emmeci Grafiche
    web development: Stralanchi Design         April 2011 Art Direction, Graphic Design, Web Design
  • Zanchi Wine Shop Renovation and interior design of the Wine Shop Zanchi in Terni (Umbria-Italy). The shelves were made from old pieces of original furniture from the Sixties while the ceramic lights "Din Don Dan" are a project by D'Apostrophe.

    client: Zanchi
    design: D'Apostrophe         April 2011 Interior Design, Design, Product Design
  • Din Don Dan Illuminating ceramic body handmade by Tuscan craftsmen. Available in three different shapes with enamel finish of different color.

    design: D'Apostrophe
    production: Nuove Forme         April 2011 Product Design, Design, Lighting Design
  • Floornature Identity and motion graphic for the specials and interviews for FN.TV by Floornature.com.

    client: Floornature
    production: re.publique - comunicazione d'architettura
    a project by: Claudia Gelosa + Flores Zanchi
    shootings: Jacopo Mariani
    editing: Giada Romani
    motion graphic: D'Apostrophe
    music: Tommaso Bianchi         January 2011 Motion Graphics, Graphic Design
  • Identità Dinamiche D'Apostrophe curated the redaction and realization of the event "Disegni Urbani" corporate identity and of its relative publication that tell the story, the palnning process and the development of the urban image and the cultural system of Montevarchi result of the workshop "Cantieri La Ginestra" (January 2010).

    client: Comune di Montevarchi
    project: Ginestra
    printing: Grafiche Cappelli         January 2011 Graphic Design, Editorial Design
  • Leonardo Domenici Website of the Euro-MP Leonardo Domenici, member of the S&D party (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialist & Democrats in the European Parliament).

    client: S&D
    web design: D'Apostrophe
    web development: Stralanchi Design         January 2011 Web Design, Graphic Design
  • Moony Cow Moony Cow Coffe Table.     January 2011 Design, Product Design
  • Shanghai Motion graphic of the special on Shanghai. The video clip was subdivided in three parts concerning as many important features of the new architectonic and urban city's structure:

    1. New life on the river - The waterfront, where architecture and an innovative urban lifestyle meet, a promising gateway towards the future.

    2. When the past and future meet - Experience where tradition blends into contemporary, leaving space to a renewed view of the city where the past contaminates present and future.

    3. The growing city - Explore the skyline through the most impressive architectural wonders that compose the fastest growing urban landscape in China.

    client: Floornature
    production: Re.publique - comunicazione d'architettura
    a project by: Claudia Gelosa, Flores Zanchi
    fixer: Zhang Jing
    shootings: Jacopo Mariani, De Hua Zhang
    editing: Giada Romani
    motion graphic design: D'Apostrophe
    music: MaTTa Clast         November 2010 Motion Graphics, Graphic Design
  • Abit.ar Exhibition of the new objects exposed during the exhibition "La Casa del III Millennio", held in Prato during December 2009, the result of a research path on the "house system" territorial potential, starting with the selection, through a public contest, of architects and designers that will work close quarters with Prato CNA's firms. The concept interpretation during the exhibition of Arezzo has been directed to the development of the sustainability and recycling idea employing, for the stand components, only waste materials. The partition walls like so the desk, have been completely assembled with carpentry elements: frames, moldings and splints. The lifted up floor has been composed with old pallets and OSB (Oriented Strand Board) panels. The retaining structure of the illuminating system has been realized with a tube frame sceened by a close net of multicolor yarn.

    promoter: CNA - Prato & Arezzo
    curator: Salvatore Re
    exhibition design: D'Apostrophe
    installation and supply panels: Caneschi Arreda         November 2010 Exhibition Design
  • Cartoons Structure of cardboard tubes designed for "Più. Design per il cambiamento / More. Design for change" during "Festival della Creatività (Florence, 21-24 October 2010)".

    Graphic designer:
    - Majid Abbasi
    - Jonathan Barnbrook
    - De Designpolitie
    - Fons Hickmann m23
    - Inkahoots
    - Rico Lins
    - Yossi Lemel
    - Alain Le Quernec
    - Chaz Maviyane-Davies
    - Armando Milani
    - Andrea Rauch
    - Gianni Sinni
    - Un Mundo Feliz
    - Via Grafik

    Organization:
    - Associazione culturale FFF

    Partner:
    - platform for augmented reality - Augmented Advertising /Cristian Contini e Alberto Mori
    - structure design - D'Apostrophe
    - video - Rumi Produzioni
    - web advertising - Simply
    - 6x3 mounting - Riot Van
    - web site - Lcd
    - communication - Image
    - cardboard tubes - Tubettificio Pasquetti

    patronage:
    - Aiap         October 2010 Architecture, Exhibition Design, Installation Design
  • Shanghai Expo 2010 Motion graphic and packaging of the DVD containing the wide reportage realized by Floornature during the Shanghai Expo 2010. The selection of the the most innovative expositive pavilions realized by the attending nations, is related to black&white corporate identity, based on the employment of a texture system, icons and different "poster" fonts.

    client: Floornature
    production: Re.publique - comunicazione d'architettura
    a project by: Claudia Gelosa , Flores Zanchi
    fixer: Zhang Jing
    shootings: Jacopo Mariani, De Hua Zahng
    editing: Giada Romani
    motion graphic: D'Apostrophe
    music: Tommaso Bianchi
    thanks to: Luca Burini         September 2010 Motion Graphics, Graphic Design, Packaging
  • Cersaie 2010 D'Apostrophe goes on the development of the new identity for the young italian brand that during Cersaie 2010 presents a new collection of young, ironic and colored products. It's just on this features that the design of the space and the communication are developed. A series of compositions have been realized, in which the objects are "textured" on strongly colored background.

    client: Dex spa
    visual and exhibition design: D'Apostrophe
    mounting: Sipario
    printing: Stampa Baldesi
    shopping bag: Plastimec         September 2010 Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Art Direction
  • Gio Style Design Brand design and corporate identity of an U.S. interior design studio. Besides the logo and its development on the business card, D'Apostrophe realized some "vignettes", using the collage technique, for a series of manifesto of the style and identity of the studio owner.

    client: Gio Style Design LLC
    brand design and illustration: D'Apostrophe         September 2010 Graphic Design, Branding, Illustration
  • VignaVecchia Project and realization for the label of the new wine production by Zanchi cellar of Amelia. Realized with the intention of bestow on the product a dynamic connotation, with clean and contemporary lines, the label has as main feature an oblique and wrapping develop. In order to bring out the dynamic line it was chosen the chromatic contrast with the bottle employing a white coarse paper. On the occasion it was proposed a new brand and logotype for the company which is expanding to the whole corporate communication, from the application on the label to the box containing six bottles.

    client: Cantine Zanchi
    design: D'Apostrophe
    label: Unilabel         July 2010 Packaging, Graphic Design, Branding
  • Officina Ailati Motion graphic for the special "Officina Ailati" realized for the introduction of the exhibition by Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo, overture of the Italian Pavilion of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice titled "AILATI. RIFLESSI DAL FUTURO". The graphic has been realized animating papers elements by stop motion technology.

    client: Floornature
    production: Re.publique - comunicazione d'architettura
    a project by: Claudia Gelosa, Flores Zanchi
    shooting: Jacopo Mariani
    editing: Giada Romani
    motion graphic design: D'Apostrophe
    music: Tommaso Bianchi
    special thanks: David Poletti         July 2010 Motion Graphics, Graphic Design
  • Greetings from Spain Motion graphic of Floornature focus on the new developments in floor and wall coverings and their applications in contemporary Spanish architecture.

    production: re.publique - comunicazione d'architettura
    a project by: Claudia Gelosa, Flores Zanchi
    shootings: Jacopo Mariani
    editing: Marco Lega
    motion design: Donatello D'Angelo - D'Apotsrophe
    music: Tommaso Bianchi
    special thanks to: Juan-Luis Grafulla - Matimex, Marta + Emilio Palomar - Stilgres, Ivan Rossi - Fiandre         June 2010 Motion Graphics, Graphic Design
  • Medoliva Design and the realization, with concerning graphic and illustrative applications, of the Arsia and Regione Toscana stand during the International Fair of Mediterranean olive tree "Medoliva" (Arezzo, 14-17 May 2010). For the space construction have been used unusual component such as olive casses and net, yellow boards.

    agency: Lcd
    client: Regione Toscana - Arsia
    exhibition and graphic design: D'Apostrophe         May 2010 Exhibition Design, Graphic Design
  • Unstandards Packaging and graphic design for the new project of the pianist and composer Alessandro Galati titled "Unstandards", result of the collaboration between Italian and North European musician.
    The concept was developed on the idea of the client who did show the need to "visualize" the line that you can sense throughout the whole album, that is the essential melody and the will to break the compositional schemes of the jazz tradition.

    client: Alessandro Galati
    label: Via Veneto Jazz
    packaging and graphic design: D'Apostrophe
    illustration: Katia Mariani         March 2010 Graphic Design, Packaging
  • SheeTable Table system project developed on the idea of a thin and light element's folding, just as if it was composed by a paper.     January 2010 Design, Product Design
  • La Casa del III Millennio 2009 The exhibition "La Casa del III Millennio", held in Prato during December 2009, has been the result of a research path on the "house system" territorial potential, starting with the selection, through a public contest, of architects and designers that will work close quarters with Prato CNA's firms. The aim was that of drive the creatives in finding alternative solutions both for the envelope and the components of the house, those have to be durable and hand-crafted, created from the production wastes to design luxury products, planned around the human being to ease life and daily actions, or simply to get excited. The seven winners and the projects selected by the exhibition's scientific committee were developed with the companies during a workshop coordinated by Frits Van Donged with the perspective of a united mounting vision of the III Millennium House. The exhibition's fitting and visual system concept has been developed following the idea of sustainability and materials recycle. So was born the idea of an installation composed by a T-shirt on the facade of Palazzo Pacchiani, Historical Prato building housing the event, or that of create the intern of an oneiric cathedral whose space has been defined by arcades and cypress columns. The catalog, as well as the whole fitting visual system, have been realized through a visual system similar to the idea of the future artifact and the natural geometry, emphasized by the employment of a chromatic palette expressly composed, and by materials of contemporaneous workmanship but sustainable.

    exhibition
    client: CNA - Artigianato Pratese
    curator: Salvatore Re
    exhibition design: Frits van Dongen - CIE
    with: D'Apostrophe
    press office and coordination: Re.publique
    visual design: D'Apostrophe

    catalogue
    curators: Donatello D'Angelo and Flores Zanchi
    editing: Re.publique
    photo: Grandangolo Photo Studio
    graphic and layout design: D'Apostrophe
    printing: Baroni&Gori
    translation: Odile C. Delos-Embleton (B.A.)         December 2009 Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Editorial Design
  • Real Cantina Borbonica Winner project of the national ideas contest for the graphic, brand and logo design of "Reale Cantina Borbonica" the Museum of historical, cultural and agricultural traditions. The suggested brand summarize three elements of the project for Reale Cantina Borbonica: 1. the function of the architectonic complex: the mark is composed by letter M wich is related to the world MUSEO; 2. the Sicilian decorative tradition: the typographic mark is composed by elements of inspiration to the decorative applications on the Sicilian carts; 3. the history and identity of the architectonic complex: the mark intentionally remind the royal crown shapes, and is a clear reference to the basement's bourbon identity. The project is one of the 125 selected works in the big collective exhibition of italian Graphic "Spaghetti grafica 2" presented by "Ministero della Grafica" and "Triennale Design Museum".

    designer: Donatello D'Angelo
    promoter: Municipality of Partinico / Province of Palermo / Public works Department
    sponsorship: Aiap         November 2009 Branding, Graphic Design
  • Materials Restructuring and interior design project of the new showroom of materials and surfaces Giulio Tanini in Milan, via Tortona 34.

    client: Giulio Tanini spa
    design: D'Apostrophe         November 2009 Interior Design
  • Roma in un'immagine Logo, corporate identity and font (Capitoline Wolf) proposed for the national contest of ideas – Roma in un'immagine – for a new logotype representing the city of Rome, designed for turistic and cultural promotion of the city (promoted by Culture and Communication Department, in collaboration with Communication Studies Faculty of La Sapienza University).

    sponsored by: Municipality of Rome
    with: Sapienza University of Rome         October 2009 Branding, Graphic Design, Typography
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