It’s under construction, so right now we just can show some pictures.

Stay tuned to see the final result.

Eugenio likes drawing and painting, animation, music, travel and meet people. “Sometimes I paint, sometimes I produce music, sometimes I’m a videomaker, and sometimes I’m also a designer. But I always try to be Eugenio.” Eugenio says that his creativity is a inheritance from his grandfather. “He is 86 years old and still works as a freelance. People call him to develop specific projects, of course he just pick those that more motivate him. My grandpa is a multidisciplinary creative person, he is a painter, sculptor, director, teacher and poet. He is my reference for everything, when I am working in a project I always tell myself, what would my grandpa do?”.

Huge believes that Contemporary design must  be a mix of manual and industrial work, with the human touch and its imperfections. If not, we are talking of just an object. “This is how you kill the industrial design.” He always approaches his designs as a conceptual pencil drawing on a paper, so he can understand the shape, material, mechanisms and it is after this that he turns on his computer. Eugenio loves natural and simple materials like wood, paper, carton boards, etc. since they “bring warmer feelings and mainly because the designs must be sustainable. Designers have the responsibility to create not just cool things, we have to think in the full life cycle of our creations. What happens to a product when his death arrives?”

Eugenio is very self assured. He says he makes the best carbonara pasta in town.

It is the month of acid rainbows, direct messages and math awareness.

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GHP has participated in the Festival in different ways, designing the official activity program booklet, official poster and the video header for night time and day time. Of course, GHP will also be there helping to manage the event and having a great time.

For more information please visit Mini Film Festival website.

The theme for this gathering was “Tomorrow will be like today”. No vertigo, thanks. Just a white lie.

The Nut contacted all the Nut Lovers to meet at this fresh club in Shanghai on February 25th to enjoy with video installations, live music by DJ Undercoverable, Mr. White (A.K.A. Marcin Gajewski) and Soundinner and catching up with others. With time, The Nut has become more than a creative venue, it has become a community seeking new initiatives and creative people in Shanghai. The Nut plans to continue carrying out gatherings in Shanghai for its eclectic loyal public.

We say see-you-soon to Martino Butti, co-founder of The Nut, now back in his hometown in Italy, starting an ambitious project organizing music festivals.

Did you miss it? Did you love it? Either way you can download now the playlist from DJ Undercover’ set. Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3.

Born in 1963 in Hokkaido, Mr. Kon became one of the most prominent Japanese filmmakers and comic-book artist. He drew a path that took him from illustration to become a manga artist and later on to work in animation. Early on he met Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of revolutionary ” Akira” , and became his assistant and with who he later collaborated in various projects such as as “World Apartment Horror” (1987) and “Roujin-Z” (1991).

As his teacher, Mr. Kon is at the forefront of generation of Japanese animation directors. His work is a legacy of his mastery in combining the anime key imagery, such as futuristic landscapes, robots with a heart and the power of technology, with an emotional weight and intriguing narratives of down – to – earth depictions of Japanese traditions. His creative universe develops, mixing drawn and digital material, in the realm of ambiguity between dreams and reality, where facts and fantasy become indistinguishable.

Kon was recruited to direct for Madhouse where he wrote and directed “Paprika“(2006) and “Millennium Actress” (2001) and also animated “Tokyo Godfathers” (2003). His untimely death came while finishing “The Dreaming Machine”, described in his own words as “a road movie for robots”, which will be released posthumously in 2011.

From the mouth of the storyteller: ” When you are watching the film (Paprika), you sometimes feel like losing yourself, in whichever world you are watching, real or virtual. But after going back and forth between the real world and the virtual world, you eventually find your own identity through your own powers. Nobody can help you do this. You are ultimately the only person who can truly find a place where you know you belong.”

GHP designed a contemporary urban logo and its applications that emphasize the particular layered structure of the entertainment complex located in Tianzi Fang in Shanghai, where retail and dining spaces are distributed on different floors and terraces are green areas open to the public. The notion of terraces inspired us to incorporate an abstraction of the building design into the logo to highlight the iconic layout, practice and personality  of Taikang Terrace. This powerful association between the design and the visual identity of the building will settle in the memory of the public.