5 facts about Giorgio Armani:
1. From Medicine to Fashion
Before entering the fashion world, Armani studied medicine at the University of Milan. He left his studies to work as a photography assistant. This experience shaped his visual sensibility and understanding of composition.
2. A New Language of Style
In 1975, Giorgio Armani launched his own fashion house. Five years after he revolutionized fashion by redefining the power suit. His jackets blurred the lines between masculinity and femininity, setting a new standard for elegance.
3. Pioneer of Lifestyle Branding
Armani became one of the first designers to extend his name beyond clothing. His empire now includes Armani Casa (interior design), Armani Hotels, Emporio Armani cafés, an Armani luxury spa, and the Armani/Silos exhibition hall.
4. The Patron of the Arts
Since 1984, Giorgio Armani has made significant donations, which have helped restore iconic Italian sites, including the San Fruttuoso Abbey in Camogli and Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan.
5. A Self-Made Billionaire
Armani remains one of the few designers who owns 100% of his company. This rare level of independence has allowed him to maintain a consistent aesthetic and vision over the decades.
#FashionHistory #GiorgioArmani
1. From Medicine to Fashion
Before entering the fashion world, Armani studied medicine at the University of Milan. He left his studies to work as a photography assistant. This experience shaped his visual sensibility and understanding of composition.
2. A New Language of Style
In 1975, Giorgio Armani launched his own fashion house. Five years after he revolutionized fashion by redefining the power suit. His jackets blurred the lines between masculinity and femininity, setting a new standard for elegance.
3. Pioneer of Lifestyle Branding
Armani became one of the first designers to extend his name beyond clothing. His empire now includes Armani Casa (interior design), Armani Hotels, Emporio Armani cafés, an Armani luxury spa, and the Armani/Silos exhibition hall.
4. The Patron of the Arts
Since 1984, Giorgio Armani has made significant donations, which have helped restore iconic Italian sites, including the San Fruttuoso Abbey in Camogli and Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan.
5. A Self-Made Billionaire
Armani remains one of the few designers who owns 100% of his company. This rare level of independence has allowed him to maintain a consistent aesthetic and vision over the decades.
#FashionHistory #GiorgioArmani
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Free online games for designers, which improve creativity (part 2):
Shape Type — Complete iconic typefaces by reshaping individual letters.
It’s Centered That — Test your alignment skills by placing elements exactly where they belong.
Pixact.ly — Recreate the exact dimensions of shapes using only your perception.
Whether you're a student, educator, or practicing designer, it’s always a good time to revisit the fundamentals — and why not do it playfully?
#DesignSkills #GraphicDesign #DesignEducation
Shape Type — Complete iconic typefaces by reshaping individual letters.
It’s Centered That — Test your alignment skills by placing elements exactly where they belong.
Pixact.ly — Recreate the exact dimensions of shapes using only your perception.
Whether you're a student, educator, or practicing designer, it’s always a good time to revisit the fundamentals — and why not do it playfully?
#DesignSkills #GraphicDesign #DesignEducation
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Hard week for the Art industry!
Usually not very fruitful for news, this week, the Art World has one scandal after another — each one highlighting urgent issues of our time. And isn’t that, after all, one of the core functions of art — to hold a mirror to society?
"Sometimes we lose our brains to take a picture, and we don't think about the consequences," says Vanessa Carlon, Palazzo Maffei (Verona, Italy) director. Her comment follows the release of footage showing museum visitors climbing onto Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh Chair” for selfies. One of them slipped and crushed the artwork. The visitors fled before staff could intervene.
Overtourism puts the Louvre on strike.
On Monday, Louvre employees went on a major strike and closed the museum due to unbearable working conditions caused by overtourism. The last straw? A government proposal to increase attendance, without dealing with the understaffing.
Recently, activists across Europe have been staging protests against overtourism and its impact on local life. On Sunday in Barcelona and Mallorca in Spain, protesters turned water guns on tourists as part of one such demonstration.
Rubens or not?
The former curator of the National Gallery in London, Christopher Brown, told The Guardian, that one of the Gallery's most celebrated paintings — “Samson and Delilah” by Peter Paul Rubens — is most likely a decoy. He revealed that in the 20th century, the back of the painting had been removed and replaced with a plywood panel, destroying crucial indicators of authenticity such as stamps, monograms, and antique wood.
Many art historians had already raised concerns: the anatomy of the figures is unusual, the brushwork is notably crude, and the typical craquelure of old paint is absent. Despite this, the National Gallery insists the painting is genuine. But the official attribution was made by Ludwig Burchard, a figure whose credibility has long been in question: dozens of artworks he “discovered” were later exposed as forgeries...
#ArtIndustry #ArtNews #ArtScandal #Overtourism #Louvre #MuseumProtests #ArtAuthenticity #Rubens #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #ArtEvents #ArtCommunity #ArtCritique
Usually not very fruitful for news, this week, the Art World has one scandal after another — each one highlighting urgent issues of our time. And isn’t that, after all, one of the core functions of art — to hold a mirror to society?
"Sometimes we lose our brains to take a picture, and we don't think about the consequences," says Vanessa Carlon, Palazzo Maffei (Verona, Italy) director. Her comment follows the release of footage showing museum visitors climbing onto Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh Chair” for selfies. One of them slipped and crushed the artwork. The visitors fled before staff could intervene.
Overtourism puts the Louvre on strike.
On Monday, Louvre employees went on a major strike and closed the museum due to unbearable working conditions caused by overtourism. The last straw? A government proposal to increase attendance, without dealing with the understaffing.
Recently, activists across Europe have been staging protests against overtourism and its impact on local life. On Sunday in Barcelona and Mallorca in Spain, protesters turned water guns on tourists as part of one such demonstration.
Rubens or not?
The former curator of the National Gallery in London, Christopher Brown, told The Guardian, that one of the Gallery's most celebrated paintings — “Samson and Delilah” by Peter Paul Rubens — is most likely a decoy. He revealed that in the 20th century, the back of the painting had been removed and replaced with a plywood panel, destroying crucial indicators of authenticity such as stamps, monograms, and antique wood.
Many art historians had already raised concerns: the anatomy of the figures is unusual, the brushwork is notably crude, and the typical craquelure of old paint is absent. Despite this, the National Gallery insists the painting is genuine. But the official attribution was made by Ludwig Burchard, a figure whose credibility has long been in question: dozens of artworks he “discovered” were later exposed as forgeries...
#ArtIndustry #ArtNews #ArtScandal #Overtourism #Louvre #MuseumProtests #ArtAuthenticity #Rubens #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt #ArtEvents #ArtCommunity #ArtCritique
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The Nightmare of Every Museum Curator
Inspired by the news of the damaged “Van Gogh’s Chair” (see yesterday’s post), we’ve gathered 5 famous moments when visitors crossed the fragile line between admiration and destruction.
Let this be a reminder: admire, study, sketch — but never touch (or try to make a selfie)!
#MuseumFails #ArtCrimes
Inspired by the news of the damaged “Van Gogh’s Chair” (see yesterday’s post), we’ve gathered 5 famous moments when visitors crossed the fragile line between admiration and destruction.
Let this be a reminder: admire, study, sketch — but never touch (or try to make a selfie)!
#MuseumFails #ArtCrimes
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Weekend Watch: “How to Steal a Million” (1966)
Continuing the theme of art crimes, we suggest you entertain yourself with a timeless classic. "How to Steal a Million" is a sparkling heist comedy set in the glamorous Parisian art scene — with Audrey Hepburn as the daughter of a charming art forger, and Peter O’Toole as the mysterious gentleman enlisted to help her... to pull off a robbery at the city’s museum.
Bon week-end!
#DAFESWatchlist #AudreyHepburn #OldMovies
Continuing the theme of art crimes, we suggest you entertain yourself with a timeless classic. "How to Steal a Million" is a sparkling heist comedy set in the glamorous Parisian art scene — with Audrey Hepburn as the daughter of a charming art forger, and Peter O’Toole as the mysterious gentleman enlisted to help her... to pull off a robbery at the city’s museum.
Bon week-end!
#DAFESWatchlist #AudreyHepburn #OldMovies
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5 Figma plugins to elevate your creative workflow
Whether you’re developing a portfolio project or preparing an entry for the new season of DAFES Awards (coming soon), these tools can help streamline your work and boost creativity:
Curve Text — bend and stylize your typography;
Redlines — generate technical redlines;
Blobs — craft organic, abstract shapes;
LottieFiles — transform your visuals into Lottie animations;
Supa Palette — generate stunning color palettes.
Have a favorite plugin? Share your must-haves in the comments!
#CreativeTools #DAFESLearning #Figma #FigmaPlugin #DesignTips
Whether you’re developing a portfolio project or preparing an entry for the new season of DAFES Awards (coming soon), these tools can help streamline your work and boost creativity:
Curve Text — bend and stylize your typography;
Redlines — generate technical redlines;
Blobs — craft organic, abstract shapes;
LottieFiles — transform your visuals into Lottie animations;
Supa Palette — generate stunning color palettes.
Have a favorite plugin? Share your must-haves in the comments!
#CreativeTools #DAFESLearning #Figma #FigmaPlugin #DesignTips
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Confronted with these introspective, unsettling, and at times repulsive portraits, one might ask: What makes them special?
The answer lies in the uncompromising vision of their author, British portraitist Lucian Freud, one of the most influential figures in XX century art. A grandson of Sigmund Freud, he channelled the psychoanalytic ideas into paint, striving to uncover what lies beneath the surface of physical appearance.
Whether portraying anonymous sitters or iconic figures like Kate Moss, he refused to idealise. The human body, to him, was not an object of beauty, but a living, aging, flawed, and truthful presence.
His close friendship with another art legend, Francis Bacon, further sharpened this vision. Freud admired Bacon’s emotive distortion and raw immediacy; Bacon, in turn, drew inspiration from Freud’s psychological insight. Together, they redefined the possibilities of figurative art in an era increasingly dominated by abstraction.
#FigurativeArt #LucianFreud #ArtHistory
The answer lies in the uncompromising vision of their author, British portraitist Lucian Freud, one of the most influential figures in XX century art. A grandson of Sigmund Freud, he channelled the psychoanalytic ideas into paint, striving to uncover what lies beneath the surface of physical appearance.
Whether portraying anonymous sitters or iconic figures like Kate Moss, he refused to idealise. The human body, to him, was not an object of beauty, but a living, aging, flawed, and truthful presence.
His close friendship with another art legend, Francis Bacon, further sharpened this vision. Freud admired Bacon’s emotive distortion and raw immediacy; Bacon, in turn, drew inspiration from Freud’s psychological insight. Together, they redefined the possibilities of figurative art in an era increasingly dominated by abstraction.
#FigurativeArt #LucianFreud #ArtHistory
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