The Milano Thing

Exciting news! Manystuff, the graphic design blog run by Charlotte Cheetham, featured The Milano Thing today. Make sure to check it out. Thank you very much Charlotte.

Ultrafragola Channel is an italian web tv mainly devoted to design, art and architecture. They came to the launch party event with all the video equipment and made the short video you can see up there. Good stuff, thank you very much guys!

Thank you guys for coming at the launch party for The Milano Thing magazine in via Laghetto 9. It was a success! More than one hundred people showed up to celebrate with us. Good music, good beer and nice faces made that night a fun night. A big thank you goes to Marco Gabriele Lorusso and Gigio Moratti for supporting us with the location, Seby from Club Silencio, Death in Plains, and our sponsor Duvel beer that played a fundamental role in creating the perfect mood and atmosphere. On Vimeo a short video by Micole “Vincent Moon” Basile.

This has been our first approach to screen printing. Unfortunately the guy at the printing shop sold us a pvc color instead of the less smelly water color. Seriously, we have never felt such a bad smell. We got intoxicated and felt high for the next two days, but it was definitely worth it. By the way, forgive us for the technique, we are amateurs.

It’s blue, both in English and Italian, and has 48 pages featuring the most insipirational projects from the Milan Design Week 2011. All the orders placed before midnight 25 May will be shipped with an exclusive screen printed poster. Preview pictures are coming soon.

No really, it’s great. We got one thousand plastic bag to seal with no idea of how to do that. All these professional thermic sealers were too much expensive so we ended up with this little toy from Taiwan. Really a big deal for only ten euros. Do yourself a favour: watch the presentation above and order one.

While trying to figure out a nice way to start the magazine, we’ve found an old kit to make some marble texture. Basically it’s all about mixing glue, water and color together, and then fully dip a paper sheet in it. The kit was more than ten years old and all the colors were gone, we’ve been lucky that black and yellow worked fine enough to get some nice results.