As promised, I'll be posting from here in Milan at the Design Fair. If you haven't been to the Salone Del Mobile, it is a design experience that is like no other, and inspiration seeps from every corner and alleyway in the city. While the "Salone" actually takes place at the convention center just a short metro ride away from the city center, there is a massive amount of design activity throughout the entire city. Just about every local gallery and empty apartment space in the entire city radius is rented, with product launches, exhibitions, live creations, grafitti art and design ephemera assaulting your senses constantly. It's heaven ;)

In contrast to other more commercial design shows, there is also a lot of design "happening" here that is unattached to commerce - design just for design's sake. This type of spontaneous and rampant creativity is a breath of fresh air, and it's great to see so much energy dedicated to the promotion of design as an activity both commercially and philosophically instead of a typical tradeshow style event. There's plenty of that at the Salone center, but the rest of the city is just breathing design.

So with the promise of feeding inspiring imagery comes the challenge of sorting the imagery and communicating the best of the best from a distance. Instead of writing lengthy posts here on our blog, I will post photo galleries to my Facebook page, and make them viewable for everyone (even those that I am not yet friended to). I hope this will allow people to take what they want from them, instead of me filtering it too heavily. I encourage anyone to comment on an image if they would like more info, or thumb it just to say they liked it.

What is great about the design fair is that it is a mix of all things design - furniture, architecture, object, graphic, streetart, interactive - much like the Montreal Portes Ouvertes event coming up on May 1 & May 2 (Dynamo is participating BTW - come and see what WE'VE got going on Saturday May 1) So you'll get a lot of everything here, and hopefully it will inspire from a distance. Take a look and let me know what you like!

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Bob - Bob is Dynamo's Creative Director, a mutlidisciplinary director / designer responsible for ensuring that our work hits strategic targets, demonstrates creative innovation and compels our client's audiences to take action. He firmly believes good design can enrich experiences, enhance communication and ultimately change the world.