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Ciclope! — Paper Art

A visual research around the book, a narrative system that comes to life, made of glances, understandings and moments spent together. 

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Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia

Ciclope! — Artifacts For The Home

In these years, where books and culture are undergoing a bad spell, in which printing is thought to be dead and everything becomes “light”…  we wanted to start anew from Venice, gifting a new identity to books. A new look and a new function. In order to introduce you to a new concept of books. A book which isn’t just made up of stories, characters, actions, but… a book which is made of glances. Stares, understandings, moments… spent together.
 
We wanted to draw a story made of paper, ferrying the observer across a river of typography, history and atmospheres.
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
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Ciclope! From the moment it is freed from its packaging, Ciclope! starts narrating the time spent together and day by day it will grow with us. The paper will change, yellowing and swelling, stained by the memories that we would have lived hand in hand, becoming a silent narrator of the fantastic journey that life represents. If it were to be smudged, scribbled on by our child, hot or cold, Ciclope! will remember… never forgetting anything.
 
A continuous game of glances. A silence filled by the power of printing, in an interweaving of art, history and design. A research about the book’s function as expression of a story, be it visual or narrative.
 
Hour after hour, through the shadows that are created and bloom throughout the day, a visual tale is set up between the environment and the observer, devoted to emphasize the present.
 
Visual architectures, enclosed in a book block of paper, on the surface of which, every day, different shadows will continuously appear, aimed only at narrating the passing of time and escorting the eye during its rustling.
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Awards and Exhibition Awards: Winner at European Design Awards (2022), Shortlisted at GMUND Award (2021)
Exhibition: Salone Del Mobile, Euroluce Corraini Mobile, Milano (2023) — Vienna Design Week, Puuul Space, Vienna (2021) — M9 Museo Del ‘900, Bookshop, Venice (2022>2023) — Punta Della Dogana Museum, Pinault Collection Bookshop, Venice (2022>2023)
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Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia

Ciclope! — Artifacts For The Home

Before pixels, apps, Google and Wikipedia, books were the only messengers of culture and entertainment. The history of our trade was born during a 15th century, rich in cultural evolutions, that strengthened Italy’s foundations as a unique cultural country and, at the same time, all that communication design represents today. 
An artisan and design knowledge that was born by printing 5 million books in Venice with the Speyer brothers, Manuzio and Griffo. Over the centuries, thanks to the genius of Giambattista Bodoni, they lit up Italy all over the world. We are the home of creativity, culture and design. But we are just dwarves sitting on the shoulders of these and other giants that we want to honour in a paper artifact, a vehicle of emotions.

Ciclope!

AD, Concept & Design: Tommaso Gentile
Design engineering: Tommaso Gentile, Cecilia Vanin, Laura Doro
Calligraphy: Laura Doro
Copywriter: Tommaso Gentile
Photo: Simone Marcuzzo + Courtesy of European Design Awards
Set Design & Photo Artworks: Simone Marcuzzo, Cecilia Vanin
Motion Design: Cecilia Vanin

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Artifacts For The Home

Visual architectures, enclosed in a book block of paper, on the surface of which, every day, different shadows will continuously appear, aimed only at narrating the passing of time and escorting the eye during its rustling.

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Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia
Ciclope! Paper art packaging design Artemia Bottega Artemia

ARTISSIMA Exhibition presso Corraini Edizioni

Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art, Torino (2023)

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Artissima Exhibition presso Corraini Edizioni

Oggetto Libro Exhibition & Best Book at ADI Design Museum

Exhibition Oggetto Libro & Best Book Winner presso ADI Design Museum, Milano (2023)

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Unfolded Festival Gmund 2023

Exhibition at Unfolded Festival, Gmund Paper, Gmund am Tegernsee (2023)

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Salone Del Mobile 2023

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