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Metodi e progetti di design per facilitare la comprensione

12 Marzo 2025, ore 12:00. Al nostro secondo intervento al ciclo di seminari “Elementi di comunicazione inclusiva” organizzato dal Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università di Ferrara affrontiamo il vasto tema dell’accessibilità nel progetto grafico di libri cartacei e digitali. Tema estremamente attuale visto che l’EAA (European Accessibility Act) sarà in vigore dal 28 giugno 2025. 

Faremo un piccolo excursus delle ricerche più interessanti nell’ambito della lettura e della tipografia, ne seguiremo la ricaduta su alcuni progetti di libri e di materiali stampati. Illustreremo il promettente scenario del digitale con le sue grandi potenzialità che necessitanno di un approccio sempre più integrato tra produzione del contenuto, design grafico e sviluppo.

12 Marzo 2025, ore 12:00
Antonio D’Elisiis, Michele Tomasini, Nicolò Carpignoli, Edoardo Cavazza
Metodi e progetti di design per facilitare la comprensione
Palazzo Tassoni, Ferrara + Streaming

Per partecipare all’evento è necessaria l’iscrizione gratuita a questo link.

Digital haptic interfaces

February 26, 2025, 4:30 pm. At the first day of the seminar series “Elements of Inclusive Communication,” dedicated to low vision and blindness organized by the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara, we will bring our experience in accessibility design: challenges, research and limitations. We will talk about Tiresia, a project for accessible education, born from a PhD research initiated by Chialab and the IUAV University of Venice, and to date a freely available aid for students and teachers.

Feb. 26, 2025, 4:30 p.m.
Nicolò Carpignoli / Design of digital haptic interfaces.
Elements of inclusive communication
Palazzo Tassoni, Ferrara + Streaming

Free registration is required to attend the event at this link.

From Illustration to Comics. Pencils in Talented Young Hands / Frankfurter Buchmesse / 2024

A magazine in the shape of an exhibition catalogue or an exhibition catalogue in the shape of a magazine? We like hybrids, middle ways, diagonals. So we put 30 authors and one master on the pages (and walls) of the Frankfurt Book Fair. An aniconic (or hypericonic) cover with four signs for the four areas in which the 30 talented young hands were selected and grouped by Ivan Canu, Grazia Gotti and Silvana Sola.

Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna Book Plus, Bologna Fiere, AIE.
Roots in the Future – Italy Guest of Honour 2024 Frankfurter Buchmesse.

How do blind people study the moon's orbit?

November 28, 2024, 1:00 pm. At Handimatica 2024 we will present Tiresia, an accessible education app dedicated to blind and visually impaired students. Tiresia allows you to build and explore digital tactile figures by taking advantage of vibrations, sounds and speech synthesis, on smartphones and tablets. Geometric figures, function curves, maps of buildings, and conceptual maps can also be used visually, thus creating interaction in studying between sighted and blind people.
Tiresia is a project developed by Nicolò Carpignoli (Chialab) as part of a PhD carried out in collaboration with the IUAV of Venice.

November 28, 2024, 1:00 p.m.
Nicolò Carpignoli / TIRESIA
Handimatica edition 2024 / Innovators of Accessibility: the projects selected by the Call4Projects 
Aldini Valeriani Institute
Via Bassanelli, 9/11, Bologna

Bologna Book Fairs

Using the plural is mandatory for the multitude of symbols, icons, brands, illustrations, colors, letters which we design to accompany Bologna’s passion for publishing: Bologna Children's Book Fair, BBPlus, Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids, Bologna Frankfurt, Bologna Shanghai, Bologna Guadalajara, Bologna Angoulême, Bologna Bangkok, Bologna Grand Tour, Illustrators Exhibition, Comics Corner, Self publishing, Awards, Illustrators Survival Corner, BCBF Galleries… 

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Reading is a common good

For the Egyptian Museum in Turin and with the Paideia Foundation, we faced the challenge of telling people with special communication needs about the life of the ancient Egyptians. Design obstructions: both individual and group use, print and digital dissemination, self-consistent and cross-reference-free utilization. In page layout, we kept the linearity of the story firm: no menus, no links; only two compositional schemes in the text-image relationship, a minimized number of visual codes for illustrations and typographic styles.

Here the thematic paths “Reading is a common Good”
Deir el-Medina, Il Viaggio dei morti, Il dono del Nilo

Museo Egizio di Torino, Fondazione Paideia.

BCBF24 workshop with Bruno de Almeida

For the 2025 edition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair we teamed up with Bruno de Almeida. The annual VIW (Visual Identity Workshop) took place in June at our place. Many ideas appeared on the table while we met in Bologna, intense discussions went on for the rest of the summer involving everyone on the team. See you in Bologna for the 62^nd edition of BCBF, 31 March – 3 April 2025.

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Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Titillium Serif PRO: first studies

We have released the first studies of the “version_00” of Titillium Serif PRO that follow the sans version in design, vertical proportions and overall dimensions.

The intention is to develop in parallel also a second version in discontinuity with the sans and with features closer to the historical serif canons. We thus trace a double design path with the aim of meeting different editorial needs, without ever losing the identity of the Titillium family and its vertical metrics.

At the moment settle for the sans continuity version. Download it, explore it, and do not demand perfection: still a long way to go and that is precisely why your every observation will be valuable. Thank you!

Download: “Titillium Serif PRO_00” from Chialab GitHub

For reports please write to: titillium@chialab.it

The Tititillium Serif PRO project is part of our Titillium curation efforts and is based on Lorenzo Volpe's thesis, “TITILLIUM SERIF. Research and Typographic Practice,” discussed at ISIA Faenza and supervised by Antonio D'Elisiis.

L’Albertazzi è accademico

A ottobre 2023 è uscito L’Albertazzi, dizionario illustrato di slang urbano bolognese. È stato incubato e progettato da noi, scritto da Francesco Perlini, illustrato da Valeria Cavallone e Lufo.

Il successo di questo piccolo dizionario ha incuriosito Alberto Ghia, un ricercatore di Linguistica dell’Università di Torino che ci ha regalato una lunga recensione sulla rivista accademica di Lingue e Letterature Moderne “Ricognizioni”.

Tra le righe dell’articolo si può assaporare l’analisi dell’opera più completa e puntuale che fino ad ora abbiamo avuto il piacere di leggere. Se foste curiosi, si trova qui!

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Here comes Albertazzi

(Luca Longi) Lufo