Posts tagged as: italy

Dear Young Italians Abroad…

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I’m writing you a letter because nowadays the epistolary form seems to be the most appropriate when it comes to expressing moral outrage. Just like you, I’ve read Pier Luigi Celli’s letter in La Repubblica, encouraging his son to emigrate, to wander off into the horizon in search for a better future. Just like you, [...]

16. MINORITIES REPORT: lo straniero siamo noi

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Girare la chiave nella serratura, aprire la porta e annusare l’aria per sentire l’odore di casa dopo le vacanze – la lunga assenza – è uno dei ricordi più forti della mia infanzia, il primo ritornare, il primo riconoscere ‘mio‘ un luogo. Tutte le volte in cui partiamo, in tutte le avventure che incominciamo, non [...]

Ecco come ci etichettano!

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Paper Presentation si trova al 21 W della 18th ed è uno dei negozi di New York più forniti di… carta! Si tratta di un universo incredibile di biglietti, bigliettini, cartelline, contenitori, fogli e foglietti di qualsiasi peso, misura e colore. Ma l’angolo più bello di questo grandissimo magazzino di downtown è quello dedicato agli [...]

Today in New York: Ryan McAbary

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Ryan McAbery has been a working artist for just over 9 years.  She started out as a professional bookbinder but has changed course a few times over the years, from jewelry design to her new found passion,  photography.  She lives and works in the Pacific Northwest and has a small and messy studio which has [...]

Today in New York: Kandace Colwell

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Kandace Colwell learned how to sew when she was five, thanks to her grandmother. She told her it would be a valuable skill one day, and she was right.  By high school, Kandace was making her own clothes. A couple of years ago Kandace began to have an interest in working with used materials, thereby [...]

Today in New York: Brooke Hagel

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Brooke Hagel is the friend who every girl wishes to have. Why? Well that’s easy: Brooke is an awesome fashion illustrator and she is capable of transforming you into an amazing doodle with a perfect bone structure, awesome clothes and big eyes. Thing is that Brooke’s drawing will actually look like the real you, since what she [...]

Today in New York: Suanne Li

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Suanne Li is the artist behind the gorgeous origami-like creations of Paper Displays of Affection. She daylights as a real estate consultant in New York City, loving the amazing variety of food shops you can find in the City and enjoying the cheap ‘n’ chic clothing solution that New York offers to wannabe shopaholics. But the [...]

Today in New York: Dotty Raleigh

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Dotty Raleigh lives and creates her super cute and fluffy pin cushions in a beautiful valley in Maryland. There, she also spends her days graciously juggling between family, work, creativity and her newly found obsession to bake the perfect loaf of crusty bread. But Dotty has also been to New York quite a few times, and [...]

Today in New York: Marie Le Tourneau

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Marie Le Tourneau is a veritable culture vulture who loves coffee, kicks asses in Star Wars related trivia and has recently created a memory game called “SUSHI!SUSHI” (how cool is that?). She was born and raised in New York but her family comes from Italy. And she is super proud of these roots carrying on [...]

Today in New York: Yali Paz-Gilboa

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Yali Paz-Gilboa is a full time Israeli artist, a wife and a mother to a 7 months old baby. She lives near Tel-Aviv and thinks New York is a city in where inspiration is entangled with everything: movies, people, places. Being free is key to everything she does and her art is, she says “meditation, [...]

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