Featuring the famous Bisiluro car designed by Carlo Mollino for The 24 Hours Le Mans competition in 1955, our new t-shirt is the best product for all Mollino fans.

According to our new book about Carlo Mollino we have created a t-shirt with the graphic motive of the Bisiluro 750 car which Mollino designed with Enrico Nardi and Mario Damonte for The 1955 24 Hours Le Mans competition. Bisiluro is a fascinating vehicle in the shape of the aerodynamic styling inspired bw Mollino furniture designs as well as 1950s Italian bodywork mastery. However, the car was pushed away from the race after three hours only by winner of this competition, Mike Hawthorn with his Jaguar D-Type.

More about the story in our book.

For the launch of our Mollino book featured in the last story we have prepared this small installation related to the book, as well as some aspects of Mollino`s life.

The installation we created in the 3DH furniture showroom for the occasion of the presentation only. It included original Mollino`s Cavour table which is in the production of Zanotta now, as well as several books on Mollino or special designed prints showing visual style of the book and its paper models.

Again thanks 3DH showroom, Studio Činčera and Signpek print.

Photo Filip Šlapal

Carlo Mollino represents one of the most authentic creative figures of the last century. Mollino became a modern Renaissance man whose production embraced the entire cultural and technological world of his time thanks to his undisguised love of life and everything that our world offers. For us in OKOLO, the artist personifies a phenomenal medium of creativity and entertainment, which presents a broad spectrum of most our interests through the life of a single person.

This book and original products serve as our tribute to the master. We pay tribute to a hedonist who managed to enjoy life to the fullest, surrounded by everything he was fascinated and amused by.

The book, which presents the work of Carlo Mollino in a different way than usual, is divided into six basic chapters, i.e. six life stages and six of Mollino’s passions. Apart from a text on a specific theme, each part brings a materialized symbol of Mollino’s creativity. Thus, the reader can assemble miniature models of Mollino’s fascinating projects, implementations, and symbols related to Mollino’s life. Paper models serve to update the versatile activities of the charming Italian and place his work into a new context. Mollino will be gradually presented as a visionary designer, excellent architect, courageous race driver, fearless acrobatic pilot, style-setting skier, photographer and womanizer. Mollino is a phenomenon.

The book was created in the collaboration with Studio Činčera, Signpek print and 3DH furniture showroom. Thanks!

We have approached young artist and illustrator Jana Trávníčková to help us with the project for The Prague-based fashion store Bella Brutta and one of its representative brands, Brazilian shoes icon Melissa.

The result is the series of graphic collages where Melissa shoes are used as beautiful shapes and colors elements and together set up the rich world of passion and dynamism inspired not only by the Brazilian living and nature.


In collaboration with Bella Brutta fashion boutique, we would like to pay homage to the iconic Brazilian Melissa shoes. You will certainly take their unmistakable material, shapes, and specific fragrance to heart. Melissa has elicited a revolution in the design of ladies’ shoes over the last decade and shifted them into new designer contexts by means of such an ordinary, yet unique material in their version as plastic. The Brazilian brand started to cooperate with local designers in the beginning. After launching products designed by the great Campana brothers in 2005 on the occasion of 25 years of its existence, the brand appealed to many other designers who were able to interpret a plastic shoe in a specific way. Since then, the brand has collaborated with such prominent figures as Zaha Hadid, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, and legendary Italian designer Gaetano Pesce. Thus, all of them, plus the in-house designer team, have contributed to creating a contemporary fashion icon, which links the ordinary with ingenious ideas from the world of top design and fashion. The plastic icon can be purchased in Bella Brutta boutique. 



Bella Brutta is an original fashion boutique that offers original and less known world brands in the Czech Republic. Apart from Melissa, one can find products from such brands as Custo Barcelona, Scotch&Soda, EMU, Sanita, Sita Murt and others.

More about Bella Brutta and Melissa in our OKOLO Vienna Only magazine.

Stay tuned and see new Melissa shoes for the upcoming season in the next post!

Our complete graphic work for OKOLO and Pedal Project is now in the permanent collection of The Prague-based Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM).

Thanks!

We are so happy to announced the first collaboration with our favorite SightUnseen, The New York-based blog from two former editors of I.D. Magazine Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer.

They reposted our report from Tobias Rehberger`s studio and office with additional photos and text prepared for this occasion only.

So follow SightUnseen and see its newest article as well as their very beautiful jewelry e-shop (we were writing about it some time ago) and next collaborative projects with us on SightUnseen as well as on OKOLO in 2012.

Thanks SightUnseen!

The third issue of OKOLO magazine is also exceptional for its typography. We started from scratch and asked our friend Jan Novák, a talented young typographer, to create a new typeface for the special Viennese issue. The result is the OkoloMono typeface, which we present in our magazine for the first time.

The new OkoloMono typeface is a homage to the legendary London Underground font designed by Edward Johnston in 1916 (which is still used in the visual style of the London underground). It is derived from its circular proportion, maintained in the minuscules. However, capitals are considerably narrowed due to the fixed size of the type body. The typeface includes an underline; capitals constitute a part of the font suitable for headlines and for natural highlighting in the text.

The font pack comes with Adolf Loos and his Ornament and Crime text (1908) and brochure with the samples of the font usages.

OkoloMono pack you can order via our website or directly from Jan Novák and his website.

The third number of OKOLO magazine is on travellers’ note since we went for a trip to the former imperial city of Vienna. Renowned for Art Nouveau, traditional crafts, architect Adolf Loos, gigantic schnitzels, and delicious coffee, the city prepared for us a series of unique encounters thanks to which we were able to form our own perspective of the Austrian capital. Thus, OKOLO Vienna Only brings a selection of articles, reports, editorials and photo essays that, in our opinion, deal with the most interesting places, people, and objects in Vienna. We found hidden masters and their crafts, young perspective designers, and passionate collector who preserve their treasures concealed in secrecy. The result is a monothematic magazine which, however, reflects all our interests thanks to the diversity of individual articles – this time, with a single exception, exclusively in the centre of the genteel city on the river Danube. You can find here reports from workshops of Carl Auböck, shoemaker Georg Materna and Thomas Posenanski, photo editorial from unique cycling collection of Michael Embacher, essay about Viennese utopian architects or short interview with Marco Dessí. Illustrated survey of Austrian design icons and guide for the traditional Viennese fashion is also included. And much more.

OkoloMono font was designed by Jan Novák for the magazine only. (about it in the next post)

Thanks all the collaborators and contributors!

We are part of the special curated pop-up shop at Phillips de Pury in London. Selected by Brent Dzekciorius, the show presents some of the most interesting talents in design, fashion and graphics.

Visit Phillips de Pury gallery and buy some of our products there. Among others, OKOLO Mollino book or Owls sculptures designed by Antonín Hepnar for us.

Thanks Phillips de Pury for the opportunity to be part of it.

Opening this evening, DesignSUPERMARKET offers wide selection of Young designers and brands selling their products. Find OKOLO and Pedal Project and our new t-shirts, magazines and some other products!