Gionatan Nese '26

FWA of the day 05 September 2026:

Gionatan Nese '26

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Portfolio of Gionatan Nese, Multi-Disciplinary Designer based in Milan, Italy.Turning bold ideas into ambitious cool Stuff™ that actually stick.

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FCVQ | 2025

The Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec creates a space for dialogue, bringing filmmakers, audiences, and critics together through cinema. Inspired by projector light, our identity treats each beam as a unique perspective. When these beams converge, they form a vibrant spectrum?symbolizing diverse voices, shared discovery, and the collective emotional experience at the heart of the festival. Le Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec crée un espace de dialogue où se rencontrent cinéastes, publics et critiques autour du cinéma. Inspirée par la lumière du projecteur, notre identité associe chaque faisceau à un point de vue unique. Lorsqu'ils...

Go Behind the Scenes of Blackwing Pencils’ Ode to Analog Creativity

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Headquartered in Stockton, California, Blackwing is about finding the joy in analog creative tools at a time when digital devices consume our attention. The manufacturer produces its signature pencils in a series of specialized factories in Japan, where the graphite cores are meticulously processed before being sent to a wood shop. In a behind-the-scenes video, the company shares how that process works, followed by how the utensils begin to take shape.

Sandwiched between slats of wood, individual pencils are then sliced and trimmed to their characteristic hexagonal shape. Yet another factory takes care of the painting and labeling, where depending on...

Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-31-26 to 9-4-26)

Here's what we looked at this week:

‘Inploration’ Highlights Dozens of Artists Who Explore Space to Understand Earth

In his essay “The Passing Wisdom of Birds,” environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez rued how scientific methodology doesn’t take into consideration our senses or perception, how data is divorced from the experience of nature. “Biology should borrow here from quantum physics, which accepts the premise that, under certain circumstances, the observer can be deceived,” he wrote. “Quantum physics, with its ambiguous particles and ten-dimensional universes, is a branch of science that has in fact returned us to a state of awe with nature, without threatening our intellectual capacity to analyze complex events.”

Such is the fascination that grounds the book Inploration:...

Clever Improvisation: How to Keep Your Car Going on Just Three Wheels

Here we see footage of the Baja Mongolia offroad racing event. The vehicle is a UTV fielded by the GTHub team out of Ulan Bataar.

Now look at it from the other side:

Mid-race, they destroyed their vehicle's front left suspension, severing the connection to the front left wheel. Somehow they found two logs, and used the now-useless front tire and spare tire as counterweights to keep the vehicle going.

8 SITUATIONS.

"A gardener is always a futurist" 8 situations. Digital painting on paper illustration, 30 × 40 cm printed on metal

Imagina Floral tiles by Casalgrande Padana

Dezeen Showroom: designers can create feature walls of lush, modern botanicals using Imagina Floral large-scale decorative tiles, created by Casalgrande Padana.

The Italian manufacturer's Imagina Floral tile collection features several floral designs, ranging from ethereal, evocative compositions to bold classics.

The range was designed by Casalgrande Padana to create feature walls and dividing walls with a seamless, matt look similar to wallpaper but with the durability of ceramic tile.

The range can be used both indoors and out, making it suitable for the garden terrace as well as the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, spanning both residential and...

Encontros Sculpture / Estudio Guto Requena

The Encontros ("Encounters") sculpture is the new public artwork created by Estudio Guto Requena, a tribute to Guto's hometown of Sorocaba ("torn land" in the native Tupi-Guarani language).

The James Brand's Handsome, Designey Alternative to the Swiss Army Knife

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The Swiss Army Knife was designed over 100 years ago. On the one hand, you've got the "If it ain't broke…" explanation for the ancient form. On the other hand, the James Brand reckoned there would be demand for a folding-knife-based pocket tool with modern design attention lavished on it.

They were right. The first batch of the Helton, newly released by the company, sold out nearly instantly. The handsome design eschews both plastic and what the designers saw as extraneous tools. Instead they offer a knife with a partially-serrated blade, a magnetized Philips driver with a...