A volume of the Piccola Pinacoteca Portatile designed to play with color and deepen its many secrets. Through the words and images of great ancient and modern painters, Giovanna Ranaldi invites the reader to know the origins and names of colors, narrating the events, the discoveries, the works that made their history. An agile volume, which proposes to young budding artists exercises of observation, drawing, imagination, and gives the first rudiments to learn ho

Platero is small, hairy, sweet: so soft on the outside that it seems all cotton, without bones. Only the mica mirrors in his eyes are hard as two black glass beetles. […] With these words Juan Ramón Jiménez introduces Platero to the reader.In the background, the Andalusian countryside and nature, in the foreground there is the donkey Platero, the deep friendship and equal relationship that binds him to the child poet,

A Magazine, Dutch, joe’s, Purple, Self Service, Six and Visionaire are some of the magazines on which the book focuses in order to investigate the functioning of niche periodicals founded by groups of people who have cultivated a collaborative dimension and chosen to carry out experiments in the two-dimensional space of the page. Magazines seen as places of inquiry, means for presenting the discourse of fashion and nurturing it through the languages o

There are various traditions speaking of a mysterious language called the "language of birds", a perfect or divine language that put these animals, inhabitants of the skies, in contact with the absolute, or even more with an originary state of nature. It seems that Adam and Eve spoke the language of animals and plants, but that after the infamous original sin they no longer remember a word. For us, the language of animals pa

Emilia Romagna is a flat region in northern Italy, where most of the Italian excellences of salami and cheeses famous all over the world come from. 8,704,544 is the number of pigs present in June 2018 in Italian farms, of which almost 40% only in Emilia Romagna. These animals are sent to the slaughterhouse when they reach 100/150 kg in about 8/12 months, with an average growth of about 700 grams per day thanks to enriched soy-based feed.