To understand Job Smeets, a visionary artist who has no equal, I would suggest starting from his website, which tells more than a thousand words. Everything is spectacular, unique, questionable, quirky, opulent. In fact it’s the other side of modernity: the one which hybridizes banality and visions, technology and manual skills, pop and kitsch, humor and horror, function and dysfunction, museums and markets, awards and provocation. With a global success result.

And finally from Antwerp, after so many successful exhibitions, awards initiatives, you arrive in Milan…  
After living in Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, London...

We are already in January and the year of magnificent twenty years of Superstudio Più is already over, sadly closed to events. From 2000 to 2020 time was spent in a breath, with the end of a year to forget. A special edition of our paper monthly @AT is available, with the wish to return to a "new normality" in 2021, with new events and hope.

 Here you can find January paper @AT Summary:

- EDITORIAL: 20 YEARS ALREADY!!! SUPERSTUDIO PIU’ ANNIVERSARY

- DESIGN SUPER SHOW: A BOOK TO REMEMBER

- BEPPE SALA: MILAN MEANS DESIGN

- DESIGN SEMI-SERIOUS DICTIONARY: NEOLOGISMS...

A quite full programme, starting from Friday, January 15th, with new and historical names, street-wear and reassuring classics, catwalks on unlikely runways differently set and futuristic locations, multi-ethnic models and dancers and performers. Perhaps some bombastic made in Italy brands are missing, even if we know that by now there's a sort of freedom in times and ways of presenting its own collections. Always one step ahead Prada with comments from fashion school students around the world, live streaming.

In the five-day digital Calendar released by Camera della Moda for January 2021 Men's Collections, there is no shortage of style contrasts. If on the first day Zegna is followed by Lagos, Fendi is preceded by Spyder...

A historical partner of Superstudio, companion of many exhibitions, projects and adventures, and an extraordinary designer who presented the most creative, colorful, fun projects at our Temporary Museum and Superdesign Show: the winning partnership between Slide and Paola Navone strikes again, with a prestigious international award.

 For the third year in a row, the historic Lombard company, famous for its bright décor and rotational moulding, wins the Good Design Award which rewards excellence and innovation, organized by Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design with Metropolitan Arts Press.
This time the award goes to Ottocento tables collection by Paola Navone which thanks to Slide's know-how are able to combine classic industrial production with craftmanship. Every single piece with soft shapes has no-replicable black and white shades, which recall marble natural colors.

Sustainability and advanced craftsmanship are core themes of WSM digital new edition, the online project by White which presents 40 men's and unisex collections from 16 to 18 January on the occasion of Milan Fashion Week Men's Collection.

The new goal of contemporary craftsmanship - carefully selected for sustainability, refined aesthetics and new production technologies alongside "handmade" - takes advantage of WSM-White platform to present to buyers and press a surprising mix of Italian research brands, man or gender fluid, with the possibility of setting business appointments in real time...

He began by scorching the historical icons of design, authentic pieces by Eames, Rietveld, Gaudí. Smoke series is in fact the starting point which clarifies his vision, 2002, just graduated. A few years later he arrived at Superstudio, 2006, with Clay, a series of imperfect, irregular chairs and cabinets, as if modeled by hand. And indeed they are. Plasticine-coated skeletons. With his naïf, funny, conceptual, theatrical, rebellious work that shakes the world of beauty and perfection - already called Contemporary Kitsch - Maarten Baas immediately stands as one of the most influential young Dutch designers of the new century, where roads branch off and show new horizons...

We knew that our "Unreal but Real" exhibition with Flavio Lucchini artworks in augmented reality was avant-garde, but we would not have imagined even prophetic. A new way of enjoying contemporary art that Superstudio had already guessed almost two years ago. A trend that today becomes a necessity. 

Presented in April 2019 at Superstudio Più with the brand new technology created by Sense - immaterial Reality, the virtual exhibition allowed you to enjoy an emotional journey through the mobile phone and a dedicated app of Flavio Lucchini's large sculptures and installations, which interacted with visitors and they could also be photographed as well as shared on social media...

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SUPERSTUDIO WITH THE WHOLE TEAM 
WISHES YOU
A HEALTHY, FULL OF LOVE AND HOPE 2021.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A new year that begins with a dream for us - never stop dreaming! - and a new adventure which joins Superstudio 13 and Superstudio Più: Superstudio Maxi, in via Moncucco 35, Milan.  

A gathering space that will soon come back to unite and excite us with beauty, culture, participation.

A year of rebirth, a new beginning, a new awareness.

In recent years, new categories of materials and technologies are emerging influenced by the hybridization of design with science and some technological developments such as Internet of Things (IoT). These are termed ICS materials, an acronym for Interactive, Connected, and Smart Materials.

ICS materials are able to establish a bidirectional exchange of information with non-human and human entities and respond reversibly to external stimuli, modifying their properties and qualities. Lastly they can be programmable, not only through software.
Textint Corp. has developed a conductive material for the textile industry...