Author Archives: griffo

6 years in 2 minutes

| 16 September 2020

The video is a recap and a panoramic view of the entire project Griffo–The Great Gala of Letters part of the exhibition XXVI Compasso d’Oro – Mettere Radici (9-16.9.2020) at the new Adi Design Museum, Milan. The permanent observatory of Design ADI has selected Griffo–The Great Gala of Letters for ADI Design Index 2019 publication, within the category of  Theoretical, historical, critical research and […]

Griffo, Simoncini and Compasso d’Oro

| 14 September 2020

METODO SIMONCINI CATALOG RECEIVES THE XXVI PREMIO COMPASSO D’ORO – HONOURABLE MENTION AWARD Among all products of the best of Italian design presented on September 9 at the new ADI DESIGN MUSEUM, the Simoncini Method catalog and the designers Mirit Wissotzky and Manuel Dall’Olio – studio Dina&Solomon received an Honorable Mention of the XXVI Compasso d’Oro Award, […]

The Simoncini Method 

| 27 October 2017

*** XXVII COMPASSO D’ORO AWARD – HONOURABLE MENTION 2020 *** The exhibition catalogue The Simoncini Method — in search of an aesthetic whole  created and produced by Griffo, the Great Gala of Letters, curated by Elisa Rebellato and Antonio Cavedoni, designed by Dina&Solomon —completes the exhibition  held in Bologna at the Museo del Patrimonio Industriale (September 22 — November 12, 2017.) This catalogue provides the first systematic essay on Simoncini […]

Typeline

| 12 February 2019

B o l o g n a MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna 16.2 – 10.3  2019 ***Gallery talk 28.2, 6.30 pm – The curators with Roberto Grandi, Fabiola Naldi and Lorenzo Balbi. M a c e r a t a 19.7 – 3.11  2019 Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi / Bauhaus 100: imparare, […]

The Power of Letters

| 21 January 2019

6 Lectures, Feb ∕ mar 2019 – Bologna Aula Magna-Biblioteca Universitaria > via Zamboni 35 / free entrance MAST > via Speranza, 42  / free entrance with booking online 📢 Listen to all lectures podcasts on Usmaradio     Project by Griffo la grande festa delle lettere Curated by Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Filologia classica […]

Odhecaton. staves, notes, letters

| 16 April 2018

Friday 4, May 2018 Museo della Musica – Strada Maggiore 34, Bologna A concert held under the auspices of Griffo, the great gala of letters in collaboration with the Istituzione Bologna Musei | Museo Internazionale and Biblioteca della Musica. The Odhecaton vocal ensemble in concert with the best polyphonic works of the sixteenth century collected […]

Nominated for Compasso d’Oro Award

| 4 November 2019

The permanent observatory of Design ADI has selected Griffo–The Great Gala of Letters for ADI Design Index 2019 publication, within the category of  “Theoretical, historical, critical research and publishing projects”. ADI Design Index 2019 is the selection of the best of Italian design, nominated for Compasso d’Oro ADI awards 2020. A great achievement not only for the creators and curators of […]

Griffo’s italics. Type analysis project

| 23 February 2018

This research concerning comparative analysis of the italic typefaces attributed to Francesco Griffo is organised and promoted by Griffo, the great gala of letters. Prof. Luciano Perondi’s first year students at the ISIA in Urbino are carrying out the research with assistance from Riccardo Olocco. The purpose of the project is to identify objective similarities […]