September, 2025
Design
Why do designers wear black?From the first charcoal marks in caves to the dramatic shadows of the Renaissance, black has always served as the backdrop for the sacred, t…
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Gilles Pedroza Leite
Gilles Pedroza Leite is a 3D artist, researcher and professor, holding a doctorate and a master's degree in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design from PUC-SP.
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Design and Innovation. Gilles Pedroza Leite is a 3D artist, researcher and professor, holding a doctorate and a master's degree in Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design from PUC-SP. He works at the frontier between design, games and new technologies, with work in 3D modelling, animation, visual effects and augmented reality. He teaches at FAAP, PUC-SP and FECAP, in design, digital games, multimedia, engineering and advertising, and previously taught at Senac São Paulo. He is the author of Games, Ludi & Ethos, published by Editora Blucher, and Metaverso: Uma Nova Forma Social. At Complete, he writes about culture, design and innovation.
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17September, 2025
Innovation
Is there a possible future for design?In a field increasingly colonised by technological solutions, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby point to a necessary detour: what if design serve…
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September, 2025
Innovation
Meta Intelligence: the plans for Meta's new technology architectureMeta's new front is dedicated to developing artificial intelligence systems capable of improving themselves, models that learn with minimal …
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September, 2025
Design
Richard Wilson: architecture and sculpture between matter and illusionAcross a career spanning more than three decades, Wilson has built an international reputation on large-scale architectural interventions th…
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September, 2025
Design
Hoxxoh: time as form and movement as matterUsing mechanisms he designs by hand, Hoxxoh builds devices that spread paint across surfaces without direct contact from his hands.
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September, 2025
Design
Luigi Colani's legacy for regenerative biodesignConsidered one of the great iconoclasts of the 20th century, Colani built a career marked by his refusal of modern paradigms, his devotion t…
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June, 2025
Design
Le Corbusier: concrete as organised utopiaHis most radical project was perhaps less a specific building than a vision: the Radiant City.
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June, 2025
Design
Six N. Five presents Umbral 2025: a digital sculpture on time and impermanenceKnown for creating ethereal 3D landscapes that fuse architecture, nature and technology, the Argentine artist based in Barcelona now present…
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June, 2025
Design
Camille Henrot and the absurd logic of small ordersKnown for work moving between video, sculpture and installation, Henrot presents sculptures inspired by abacuses, children's toys and distor…
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June, 2025
Design
James Turrell's Aftershock: the disappearance of matter into colourIn Aftershock, the visitor climbs steps that evoke a temple and enters a space where colour and light fill everything. There is no focus, no…
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June, 2025
Innovation
Project Aura: Google's XR solutionIn partnership with XREAL, Google returns to the architecture of expanded vision like someone redrawing a glass palace: discreet, immersive,…
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June, 2025
Design
Dieter Rams's legacy in design: the radical silence of formToday, when design risks dissolving into spectacle or into the performance of the “new”, revisiting Rams is an exercise in resistance. Jonat…
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May, 2025
Culture
Frank Herbert by Alejandro Jodorowsky: the art of DuneIn the 1970s, Jodorowsky conceived a film that was not merely an adaptation of Frank Herbert's work but a total experience, an aesthetic man…
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May, 2025
Design
Ryszard Kaja: the radicalism of form and visual narrativeA direct descendant of the Polish School of Posters, Kaja inherited from his father, Zbigniew Kaja, a commitment to reinventing the format
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February, 2025
Innovation
Supernote A5 X2 Manta: the digital notebookThe A5 X2 Manta brings some significant changes: there is a new double slider on the side for quick actions such as “undo” and “redo”.
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February, 2025
Innovation
A Rant About “Technology”, by Ursula K. Le GuinColumnist Gilles Pedroza Leite translated Ursula K. Le Guin's thinking on technology and built a reflection around it.
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November, 2024
Innovation
META CONNECT 2024: an overviewThe event was streamed live on the official Meta Connect site and on Meta's YouTube channel, and could also be watched in virtual reality th…
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