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Recycle, reuse, design: eco-creativity in Rome

('Lucy Knight',) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:59:33 -0000

Between designers, actors, musicians, cartoonists and environmentalists pure and simple, a look at the hidden side of Rome, where creativity and art combine to save the environment

Frank Pe, Luc Schuiten: eco-dreams of Brussels' comic book art architecture

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:15:00 -0000

Not everyone knows it but another Brussels does exist which is more green, more romantic, more human. It's the one which burgeons in the imagination and designs of those who have learned to love Brussels as it is, with its contradictions, its unbridled path of illogical construction and 'forced' cohabitation between the two souls of Europe, one Latin, the other Germanic. A comic book artist, visionary architect and artist-editor explain how they dream of a different Brussels.

Mediterannean road trip becomes Italian comic

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:45:00 -0000

Italian illustrator and writer team Giuliano Cangiano and Gianluca Ferro decided to spend a different kind of summer in a van driving along the western coasts of the Mediterranean. The pictures from 'Europe 2009 A.D' address stereotypes, the Basque omertà and the flames of Marseille

Gianluca Costantini: 'the main topic of the comic underground was sex - now it's politics'

('Michelle Williams',) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:47:50 -0000

Gianluca Costantini, 37, is one of the focal points of the Italian and European comic world. He is also both an artist and an editorial director; with his Inguine Mah!gazine, created in collaboration with Electra Stamboulis, he is at the heart of all things 'underground comic'

'Virtual Life': EU's three year, 3.3 million euro 3D virtual world project

('Hayley Wood',) — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:30:00 -0000

Virtual constitutions and nations, a 3D world, democracy and censorship: these are the keywords of a virtual reality project in the style of Second Life financed by the European Union for a total of three million euros. Welcome to Virtual Life