Trabalho Grafico no Bairro do Bexiga

Bruno R. Padovano, Suzana M. Sacchi Padovano and Alessandro Sacchi Padovano of Padovano Arquitetura em Rede Ltda received the Gold Medal at IDSA’s IDEA 2010 Awards in the Environments Category:

The urban painting project for the façades of houses and stores in the traditional São Paulo Italian district of Bixiga was developed to meet the requirements of the “Color São Paulo Program”, which is dedicated to preserving the city’s architectural heritage in districts of cultural, historic and commercial interest. The design proposal incorporated the traditional colors of Bixiga – green, white and red from the Italian flag – that were used on house and store facades covering a two block area. The greatest challenge posed by the design was to intervene in an urban context with a strong cultural heritage while taking into account the diversity of interests and preferences among local traders and residents.

via Urban Graphic Design for Bixiga Neighborhood (Trabalho Gráfica Urbana para o Bairro do Bixiga) | Industrial Designers Society of America – IDSA.

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In 2008, the Industrial Designers Society of America ran a new contest in Brazil and some of the winners were included in this year’s Top International Design Excellence Awards. Amazing design and innovation is taking place in Brazil and this slideshow of winners (Brazil placed third behind the US and Korea in the number of IDEA awards in 2008) shows the wide range of activity. We tend to focus on design coming out of China, Korea, India or Japan these days, as well of Europe of course, but Brazil is booming and so is its design. Brazilians are designing sophisticated medical equipment, autos, clothes and jets. São Paulo is home is some great design consultancies that US, European and Asia companies should be tapping (many already are).

via BusinessWeek

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