Amazing Photos of the Chevrolet Testudo, a Concept Car Made by Bertone in 1963
Bertone created the Chevrolet Testudo, a concept car based on the modified Chevrolet Corvair Monza platform, which debuted at the 1963 Geneva Motor Show. Continue reading »
Italian Artist Elia Bonetti Creates Stunning Collages, Portraits, And Still Lifes Using Various Techniques
Italian artist Elia Bonetti works in many mediums, including painting, illustration, and comic books; her stunning collage masterpieces are known the world over. Continue reading »
Vintage French Lottery Posters From Between the 1930s and ’50s
King Francis I of France, inspired by Italian lotteries, established the first French lottery, the Loterie Royale, in 1539 to aid state finances, but it failed due to high ticket costs and opposition from affluent social classes. Continue reading »
The Superb Minimalistic Lineart Illustrations by Andrea Minini
Italian artist Andrea Minini crafts intricate and detailed visuals that masterfully convey depth through simple lines. Continue reading »
Meet Diego Cusano, The Italian Artist Who Sees Daily Objects Differently
For drawing fans on Instagram, Diego Cusano‘s account is an incredible source of inspiration. The illustrator takes every day objects and creates fun draws of animals and daily life situations that he shares on Instagram for a guaranted viral effect. A smart way of showing graphic art on social networks. Continue reading »
Italian Guy Recreates Celebrity Outfits With Household Items
This master of mockery is Italian college student Emanuele Ferrari. It’s fun seeing how he transforms everyday items like toilet paper and egg cartons into outfits that actually resemble expensive fashion. Continue reading »
Meet The Italian Artists Inking Museum-Worthy Tattoos
Tattoos may be more socially acceptable than they once were, but a nice sleeve hasn’t yet become a marker of taste and refinement quite like, say, a collection of art on your wall. Continue reading »
Artist Gianluca Gimini Reinterprets Vintage Italian Brands As Sneakers
How do you preserve historical visual culture in an endless sea of new imagery? How can you interest newer generations in older design? Italian designer Gianluca Gimini believes the solution is footwear. Yes, you read that right: Gimini’s project Sneakered is an effort to preserve and promote Italian designs by transposing vintage product packaging onto contemporary shoes. Continue reading »
Italian Pastry Chef Creates Miniature Worlds With Desserts
Matteo Stucchi is a pastry chef from Monza, Italy, who builds playful tasty-looking worlds using only desserts and and fills them with little figurines. Continue reading »
The Beauty Of Italian Architecture Photographed By David Burdeny
Hunting Lodge (Rotunda), Stupinigi Palace, Piedmont, Italy, 2016
David Burdeny captures the stunning architecture of the Italian peninsula. From north to south, Burdeny’s sharp eye takes the viewer into unique spaces, some still private residences, others transformed into museums, others shuttered permanently and falling into decay. His compositional symmetry and attention to light and color betray his background as a practicing architect, as he gives value to the structure as a living, breathing figure. It’s easy to imagine the phantoms of history past floating through the scenery. Continue reading »
Mind-Blowing 3D Graffiti And Paintings By Italian Street Artist Peeta
Italian artist Manuel Di Rita, aka Peeta, using various gradients and shadows, obtains an amazing effect that makes the paintings look like they hover off the surface. Continue reading »
Striking Hyper-Realistic Murals By Italian Graffiti Artist Jorit Agoch
The artistic activity of Jorit is unique because he carries out graffiti and paintings on canvas at a very high technical level.He declares that his aim is to portray as close as possible to reality. This is possible only after a very thorough analysis and, subsequently, scrupulous reproduction with all kind of painting techniques.Together with this high technical level, Jorit sends an ethical message, has accompanied him since he started to paint. He considers the human face the most characterising part of humanity, almost like a totem to venerate. That is why he has concentrated on painting human faces with all their peculiarities. Continue reading »
Internet In Real Life: This Small Italian Village Became A Web 2.0 Intervention Project
Civitacampomarano is a small village in the province of Campobasso with just 400 souls, mainly elderly. In this village, rich in folk traditions, Internet is a partially unknown world: mobile phones have difficulty working and the data connection is practically nonexistent. Continue reading »
Hyperrealistic Tattoos By Italian Artist Paolo Murtas
Currently living and working in the island of Sardinia in Italy, Paolo Murtas has tattooed a beautiful assortment of birds and movie scenes on his clients. Continue reading »
Italian Restauranteur Spends 40 years Hand-building His Own Amusement Park
An Italian has created his very own theme park – built in his spare time over 40 years in the woods near his restaurant. The restauranteur, known only as Bruno, has hand-built the amusement park filled with swings, seesaws, a ferris wheel and even a roller coaster, in Montello, northern Italy.
Bruno started in 1969 shortly after setting up grill restaurant Ai Pioppi in northern Italy. He was looking for hooks to join chairs together in his restaurant when a local welder suggest he do the work himself. Since then, as well as building his restaurant to seat 500 people, he has also built increasingly bigger rides as part of his nearby hand-made amusement park.
The amusement park now attracts hundreds of fun-loving visitors, including Oriol Ferrer Mesia, who took pictures and video of his recent visit. Continue reading »
Italian design is coming home
Design collaboration between 22 leading Swiss and Italian designers that will be exhibited in Zurich and Milan in 2011 and published in a book distributed across Italy, Switzerland and Europe.
