me, into an italian graphic design book. not so happy...
(double page with a short profile, updated on 2005)

finalmente uscito - dopo quasi 2 anni di apparentemente sofferenti progetti - questo libro lascia delusi e perplessi. mi piacerebbe conoscere i "colleghi" per parlarne un pò...

quando l'istituto europeo di design mi chiamò per propormi una doppia pagina, immaginavo un progetto d'alta qualità (vista la reputazione dello ied). pensavo che essendoci dietro una supervisione di persone che stimo anche solo sentendone parlare, fossi stato al sicuro; quindi accettai e mandai loro il mio meglio risalente all'epoca. il risultato di questo grande sogno è un libro-portfolio di 100 bravi designers. niente di più. non c'è un concetto, non c'è grafica nè filo conduttore (nemmeno in copertina. avevo visto delle belle proposte in presentazione a milano... ma come diavolo si fa nel 2007 ad uscire con una cover bianca ed un 100 pennellato su illustrator !? sarebbe stato più coerente farlo a mano, o usare il caro bodoni in bold, magari trafficato un pò alla "young guns"). ma soprattutto non c'è stata nessuna "selezione" alla base. accettando tutto (certo, viva la trasversalità), la qualità risulta media. ed una volta che esce sulla scena un libro di graphic design italiano, non si sente italianità. sorry ied, ma è un peccato.
direi più che altro... un'occasione sprecata.

i am really sorry guys, sorry everybody ;- )
i was missing for too much this time, it's true. but it was for a right issue,
i found my right job in paris, finally. i started from a month and half, but i'm
already busy everyday, whoo, it's rush rush, you know... (see pix) so, it was difficult
to find some hour to launch the new input... 20th is ready to upload, but
i want to wait a last week, just to receive latest 19th outputs from you all.
where are you? sincerely, i expected more from 19. it was really interesting...
hey, you've a week yet! send me back your character... it's time to make a family ;- )
so, com'on. next week i will send you the 20TH !... (i'm also preparing the OUR book layout)
ciao belli, m

.. scusate, scusate tutti ;- )
sono scomparso più del solito stavolta. ho finalmente trovato il mio lavoro a parigi. ho iniziato da più di un mese, sto benissimo, ma il lavoro è già molto (foto), quindi trovo poco tempo (mettiamoci anche dei freelances pressanti nel mezzo...) !

possiamo dire di essere al nostro ventesimo input. o quasi almeno. lui è già pronto, ma volevo prendere un'altra settimana per permettervi di inviarmi gli outputs del 19th. a che punto siete?... io ne ho già qualcuno, ma me ne aspettavo di più. com'on! NON MANCATE, dopo il 20th comincerò ad impaginare il libro di works...

love you workers. m

maybe you don't know Olka and her talent...
but she's a worker from two months and now she's doing
her first exhibition! many compliments 'O!
this is also her first big cooperation with Nike (push push push it!)
the exhibition will take place in the brand new Nike Concept Store "Warszawska Nike", the first store like that in Warsaw, and first in Poland.
the store took the name from the famous Warsaw monument
the Warsaw Nike [...]

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hello tout le monde,
finally the whole selection of Level Gloves customized by Works.
http://www.worksisnotajob.com/inout/18
i'm satisfied guys. our outputs are really interesting.
so, now i ask you to write me here what u think about...
who's your favourite, what are your wishes...
i hope to talk with you all, many compliments workers! good job.
(ah! take a look here on the news)

ciao belli,
finalmente la selezione intera dei Guanti Level customizzati da Works.
http://www.worksisnotajob.com/inout/18
sono soddisfatto ragazzi. i nostri outputs sono decisamente interessanti.
adesso vi chiedo di scrivermi qui cosa voi ne pensate...
chi sono i vostri favoriti, quali i vostri desideri...
spero di parlare con ognuno di voi, davvero complimenti workers,
ottimo lavoro. (ah, guardate la news qui)

... from series "what's mine" the last board.
shaper: Rafael Loff from Porto Alegre (Brasil)
writer: Matteo Mastronardi (me) :- )
hope you like it.

hello folks,
how about your level gloves situation?
deadline is near. -2 days !!! so, get this weekend to enjoy...
let's create, destruct, outputtin' and push up your luck!
works is waiting for your best :- )

ciao belli, a che punto siamo allora?
questo weekend scade il tempo (anche prolungato)
per i guanti level customizzati... approfittate degli ultimi 2 giorni!
buon divertimento, sono tutti vostri :- )
m

hello y'all, how you doing?...
i know, i'm a little bit late, but finally you can find online the 18th input
and your best t-shirts for Daa Input (the 17th)...
(it's yet absolutely open !!! Daa is open forever, send send send)

important: the new input is a partnership with LEVEL GLOVES!!!
so, we got the glove's empty style... we have to customize it!
concept: freeee ! (oviusly, the gloves remaines the same...) create more gloves you want! it's better for us and for you!... if Level likes your works, they - probably - will produced it !

please, confirm your understanding... i wanna know what u think about.
do you like this kind of approach to possibly "works friends"? i hope yeah :- )
so, enjoy... works is waiting for you. big smiles. m

that's an amazing exhibition. but probably you lost Lines of Disorder because they painted and exposed at Officina delle Arti last summer!
every wall in four rooms of the same space in Viterbo... all exhibition was a big contrast between clean and dirty, classic and modern, black paintings
and brown naked stones of ancient city, Hitnes and Allover... great idea!
... so, just some pictures to taste their funky flavor... soooo amazing guys.
and i heard also something new about a hitnes big performance in rome...
do you have any links or infos?... :- )

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hello workers, how u doing?
i hope fine and super-gooold! there is, finally, the 17th input!
do you remember last news about it? it's the first input with a concept,
and with a partner... so, download, partecipate and enjoy !
this time you can create something useful for others, a t-shirt with
a message. you got a white and empty t-shirt, you can eveything you want,
but most important thing is the message: "AGAINST AIDS" (go research!)...
i advise you to take some informations from their site here... and keep your eyes on latest collection, think new! (research + idea = funky freshness! )
Daa and Works are waiting for you! you got a months... come on!

i never know... Chiara Attorre do sooo great works! ... and expose also...

ooh guys, if you lost her last exhibition at Gloss, in Rome...
you can't miss the next at KollatinoUnderground for the
exposition "In riot we trust", 16 March at 19:30!
take a look here!

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Matteo (me), works founder, exposed 9 his pictures at Musée
de l'Elysée de Lausanne, in Switzerland, during the exhibition Tous photographes! check the site! www.tousphotographes.ch

Hello Steve, how are you doing?
Hi Matteo, nice to hear from you! How am I doing? Well you know that I am an “anxious optimistic” and I always answer “very well”. (laughs)
How were you feeling before meeting me?
as I said, indeed…
How will you be feeling later?
The future doesn’t belong to me, I just hope I won’t have any after thoughts when I read all this on my Mac’s screen.
Your book Ikonomachia is something that has never been seen before, or at least, if anything similar ever existed, it was never found around. You are an inventor. How does one become an inventor?
I am a hunter, a researcher, a fortune – teller, an illusionist (my grandfather was one), a wizard… sometimes, and curious… most of all. An inventor? I wouldn’t know; I pass the research to someone else. [...]

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Marco Caruso / www.mcphotodesigner.com
his works output (13th) has been selected for an exposition in Germany!
he sent his work "Cutting-Edge-Streetart" to the contest "Geschossen+Gedruckt".
It is an advertising-photography-contest in Germany which was held
in december. The pictures will be showcased with other 35 photographers
in Luedenscheid and published in a dedicated catalogue.
There will be probably also an exibit in Berlin in April.
The jury was from big german agencies....
Check out the site! www.geschossen-und-gedruckt.de

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hi workers,
finally we are on line with a new - maybe finished - version of our site.
i hope you enjoy every frame, i hope you like the project and so partecipate!
now you can find a complete archive of inputs (all inputs from the first)
and all the interesting outputs by you that works has selected for exhibition (the last in photo, immaculate @ angelomai, rome) or to publish into the works book (coming soon) that we are projecting at moment.
so, i hope to receive more outputs as possible from you!
let me know if you like or not, if you are interested or not...
we care about your opinions. works is by workers.
thanks for your energy. m

cos'è works.
è un training per creativi. un progetto di comunicazione sulla ricerca
del proprio stile, sulla conoscenza della creatività.
su come tenersi freschi lavorando...

chi è works.
works è una comunity di creativi, designers, art directors, fotografi,
architetti, stilisti, fisici, artisti...

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