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The Quality of a Book According to Apple
«Books must be of sufficient length or functionality. We encourage you to review your book concept and evaluate whether you can incorporate additional functionality, content, or both to enhance the user experience.» Natural Gestures, the book refused by Apple, is nothing more (nor less) than a digital photobook. What additional content or functionality am I [...]
Natural Gestures
I just released a book called Natural Gestures for iPad. Download it FOR FREE!
Brevi note sulle risposte artistiche ai mutamenti nel campo dell’editoria
Saggio pubblicato in origine sul catalogo di Fahrenheit 39 (Terza edizione). Rilanciato quotidianamente da prototipi avveniristici e opinioni illustri, il dibattito sul futuro dell’editoria risulta oggi più che mai acceso. Mentre case editrici e testate giornalistiche sperimentano senza sosta nuovi modelli di distribuzione e fruizione dei contenuti, non passa giorno in cui non ci si [...]
WTF: “Data Centers Grand Tour” as Promotional Images for the Cloud
Source: http://blinkautomation.com/the-cloud
Sarah Connor in the Trevi Fountain
Here’s my poster for 1/18 Collective Poster Exhibition in Belgrade. Sarah Connor in the Trevi Fountain Posters are designed originally to stand out because, as urban devices, they accidentally relate to a variable context. This multilayered blending forms the cultural texture of our cities. Nowadays the role of the poster as an urban device is [...]
New Location in the Data Centers Grand Tour
data-centers-grand-tour.nl, collection of Jonas Lund, is located at Amsterdam, Netherlands (52.336611,4.886899). Data Centers Grand Tour (This Data Belongs Here) is a virtual journey into the materiality of data. More info here: data-centers-grand-tour.net, and here: e-PERMANENT.org. Bonus: Data centers Grand Tour Logbook, buy a printed copy here and download it for free.
Data Centers Grand Tour Logbook
Data Centers Grand Tour Logbook traces the progress of the Data Centers Grand Tour, a virtual tour into the materiality of data, a project commissioned by e-PERMANENT. The booklet includes some of the inspirations that led to the project as well as the procedure adopted to find the locations, an overview of the imagery surrounding [...]
Blank on Demand, an ongoing project made in collaboration with Giulia Ciliberto, was part of the outstanding three-days exhibition/festival Fahrenheit 39, held in Ravenna between the 24 and 26 February.
Here’s some pictures by Francesca Depalma



Blank on Demand – Giulia Ciliberto & Silvio Lorusso, 2011
1 hardcover volume, 15.2×22.9cm, 740 pages, €999,999.99 on Lulu.com
1 paperback volume, 10.8×17.5cm, 40 pagine, €5.44 su Lulu.com
“The most beautiful and perfect book in the world is a book with only blank pages, in the same way that the most complete language is that which lies beyond all that the words of a man can say.”
Ulises Carriòn
Print on Demand technology allows to make a book without the intermediation of a publisher, setting autonomously size, amount of pages and price. Blank on Demand is an experiment that aims to probe the limits imposed by this production process. The two volumes constituting the project are produced through the self-publishing platform Lulu.com. The volumes’ formats correspond respectively to the maximum and minimum dimensions currently available for the print; similarly, page amount and price are set according to the limit values allowed by the platform. The two volumes are completely blank, except for the presence of the ISBN code. The experiment investigates the influence of the current technological context on the materiality of the book object.
Blank on Demand – Giulia Ciliberto & Silvio Lorusso, 2011
1 volume rilegato, 15.2×22.9cm, 740 pagine, €999,999.99 su Lulu.com
1 volume brossurato, 10.8×17.5cm, 40 pagine, €5.44 su Lulu.com
“The most beautiful and perfect book in the world is a book with only blank pages, in the same way that the most complete language is that which lies beyond all that the words of a man can say.”
Ulises Carriòn
La tecnologia Print on Demand consente di realizzare un libro senza l’intermediazione di un editore, impostandone autonomamente il formato, il numero di pagine e il prezzo. Blank on Demand è un esperimento finalizzato a sondare i limiti che tale processo produttivo impone. I due volumi che costituiscono il progetto sono prodotti attraverso la piattaforma di self-publishing Lulu.com. I formati dei volumi corrispondono rispettivamente alle dimensioni massime e minime correntemente disponibili per la stampa; analogamente, il numero delle pagine e il prezzo sono impostati in base ai valori limite concessi dalla piattaforma. I due volumi sono completamente vuoti, fatta eccezione per la presenza del codice ISBN. L’esperimento indaga l’influenza dell’attuale contesto tecnologico sulla materialità dell’oggetto libro.
A list of the publishers and artists that were part of Fahrenheit 39:
0_100 editions, 3/3, Ivan Abbattista, AUT, Automatic Books, Irene Bacchi, Blauer Hase, BlisterZine, Branchie, Lorenzo Bravi, Mauro Bubbico, Giuliano Chimenti, Camilla Candida Donzella, Cesura Publish, Alessandra Dragoni, Edizioni labò, Foto Libreria Galleria, Friends make books, Tommaso Garner, Caterina Giuliani, Neill Kidgell, Lorenzo Lazzari, Diego Liotta, Federico Lupo, Emilio Macchia, Eleonora Marton, Mousse Publishing, Giorgia Nardulli, Marco Nicotra, Filippo Nostri, Occulto magazine, Osservatorio fotografico, Paolo Palma, Francesco Piarulli, Jonathan Pierini, Michela Povoleri, Erica Preli, Self publish be happy, SHS Publishing, Leonardo Sonnoli, Strane dizioni, Teiera, Temp, Daria Tommasi, Daniela Venturini, Müge Yilmaz, wow, Zabar.
Organized by Emilio Macchia and Associazione Culturale Strativari
+39 392 8631359
info@strativari.org