Some exercises of Chinese writing It’s my forth lesson of Chinese but I am already very excited about this language. Even if I wouldn’t be able to ask for help in Beijing, I learnt how to say basic stuff: 我是 Pietro! The thing that really impressed me is how structured is the writing: there is a precise order of the strokes and you have to know it in order to write complex signs. Since I am left-handed I am having some...

I have created a Google Spreadsheet and I am crowdsourcing a list of mobile situation i.e. various examples of contexts + activities in which mobile design has a key role. The aim of this operation is to give and get inspiration to mobile designers. Knowing the context and the activities, in fact, is a good starting point and it’s very inspiring t00! You can see it here: list of mobile situations. If the experiment works I will open...

As they taught me at  La Sapienza one of the billions of model of communication is based on sharing values, cultures, point of views. I like this idea of it because it implies that both of the interlocutors put part of their background in the middle, on the stage of a critical and hopefully constructive comparison of things. Business is global and the comparison between different cultures it’s not just a matter of passionate...

I have been trying the whole 2008 to receive a WIRED issue from the US and now that they sent me the first (January 2009 – Wired, your subscription service for international customers really sucks!), Wired Italia first issue out! I brought it with me at work and after a while we noticed that it was full of nice pictures of big faces. And I remembered of how cool it to make fake portraits and playing with perspective. Click on the pic...

I have never been such a mobile guy, mainly for two reasons. The first that I am born in Italy, a country where mobile devices are highly diffused (we are one of the most important market in Europe) and, paradoxally, the infrastructures that should support them suck. And I am not taking into account the network operator competition that only recently has seen the entrance of the virtual ones). The second reason is that mobile has always...