PROGETTO GRAFICO n°
36
October / 2020
ISBN: 9771824130006
Profane
The reasons for this issue are twofold. The first being that of illustrating situations that consciously take place in areas commonly understood as secular – one might even say worldly – to observe how through a skillful design of the image these have successfully established meritworthy macrocosms and offered standards for secular life. The second, to uncover the possibilities of language, focusing in particular on the possibility of desecrating it, and violating its underlying rules, canceling its sacred nature, infecting it with spurious elements, and misrepresenting it with its opposite.
We hope that the issue will be, as it was for us, an invitation to recognize the potential that lies in planned just as in spontaneous desecration of narrative codes. May it offer cause for reflection and some practicable suggestions. We are in no doubt about its urgency, since a new ecology of the body cannot be detached from a new ecology of communication.
In this issue:
Archival section: Mirko Pajé, by Allegra Martin
Run home fast as you can. The Fininvest/Mediaset imagery between the 1980s and 1990s, by Giovanni Boccia Artieri
Editorial, by Jonathan Pierini and Gianluca Camillini
Dessing is communicating. The Fiorucci graphics office and Dxing: from the collective imagination to graphic deisgn Sara Guazzarini
Monstrous Relations. Shelley Jackson and Patchwork Girl, by Stefano Faoro
Magnificent desolations: imagining ambition, anxiety and indifference in outer space, by Joseph Popper
Remoria, by Valerio Mattioli
From Rex-Ona to Balenciacab. Logo-memes, left-wing resistance and corporate image, by Michele Galluzzo
AGI Open 2019: Works in progress, by Sarah Snaith
Da Buio a Buio, by Moira Ricci
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Colophon
Editor in chief
Jonathan Pierini
Editors
Gianluca Camillini, Jonathan Pierini
Editorial board
Giulia Cordin,
Caterina Di Paolo,
Michele Galluzzo,
Davide Giorgetta,
Silvio Lorusso,
Emilio Macchia,
Erica Preli
Editorial coordination
Caterina Di Paolo
Graphic design
eee studio (Emilio Macchia, Erica Preli)