The current European flag, with the twelve golden stars against a blue background, was designed in 1955. Since then society in Europe has changed dramatically. How do Europeans experience Europe? And how can that identity take shape? Designers from across the world have been invited to consider these questions and to submit their ideas for a new symbol for Europe.
Quali cose siamo, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 27 March 2010 - 27 February 2011 / The Shampoo Lamp is part of the third event at the Museo del Design at the Triennale in Milano, which would rather not be a museum, but rather advertise itself as a place full of continual surprises for the visitor. Yet this is no easy task for the curator of this third event curated by Alessandro Mendini.
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. The London Pop-up will run from 2 December 2011 through 31 January 2012 and continues to offer the same type of groundbreaking projects available through the previous incarnation at Saatchi Gallery and the current New York program. Our Batucada series are available in the space, with a selection of pieces such as lamps and vases, together with other works of great designers and artists.
Europalia 2011 had a series of events around the city of Brussels , at the Design Vlaanderen Galerie, the Design Brazil exhibition featured a selection of the brazilian contemporary design production.
Santiago Diseño, in october 2011, with a few pieces selected for the exhibition that payed hommage to brazilian design newest production, such as our lamps and furniture made locally.
Casa Brasil in august 2011 happens every two years in the south of Brasil, where we will show our new project, the X tables for St James, promoting an experimental interaction between industry and designers. Our Batucada task lamps for Vialight were also awarded best lighting industry category at the Design Salon Prize, and honorable mention for the Babilonia Credenza, as surface design.
Black River Fever was an event at the NYC Design Week in Harry Allen's Studio showing a collaboration of two designers and two companies from Brazil, NDT and Vialight, launching new products. 
Hanging lamps in blue shades for the interior show in Sao Paulo, Casa Cor, celebrating it's 25th year. Here is the container concept house created by the interior architect Brunette Fracarolli office.
Paralela Móvel had its first edition at the Biennial Pavillion from the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, a building by Oscar Niemeyer. Featured above, the Neorustica Collection and Batucada Lamps.
Santralistanbul Museum held the exhibition curated by Andrea Branzi called The New Italian Design 2.0, where this time our Batucada vases made in aluminium were sent to participate in the show.
Miami Design 2010 releasing two new projects, the Batucada lamp for Vialight and Neorustica furniture by NDT Brazil, kindly hosted by the Ornare showroom, right in the middle of the Design District.
Lodz Design Festival featured the Crumpled Zone exhibition in Poland. A green series of Batucada vases were on display at the show together with other pieces by designers like Betjan Pot and others.
Boom SP Design was held at Belas Artes faculty in São Paulo, with an exhibition, followed by the international forum with speakers like Sergio Rodrigues, Harry Allen and Craig Robbins, to name a few.
Valencia Design Week exhibition called Uniendo Puntos featured latin american designers and was co-curated by Touch and Luis Eslava, a selection of colored Batucada vases were on display.
The Brazilian Design Biennial opens in Curitiba, where a selection of Batucada vases in turquoise was shown, the exhibition called Design Innovation and Sustentability was curated by Adelia Borges.
As a second edition of Inter-connected, this time it was in Los Angeles, curated by Zoe Melo from Touch Gallery with selected objects from portuguese and brazilian designers with the green touch. 
More than 1,400 designs from 63 countries were received. An international jury selected twelve. These new symbols adorned the flagpoles at the Hofvijver from may to june 2010 in Den Haag.
Voxel Show, design and architecture conference held at the MuBe, Museum of Brazilian Sculpture, had made us welcome to talk about the Studio's work, amongst other great designers and architects.
As part of the New York Design Week 2010 in may, the Batucada collection was displayed with Touch, at the exhibition called Inter-connected, featuring brazilian and portuguese sustainable designs. 
He wants to escape the traditional teaching of the Museum and the usual themes and focus on welcoming pieces of design but also works of art, anonymous works which act as fragments of the numerous musuems that we create in our own homes, in the places where we live. Thus it has the title Quali cose siamo, because as Mendini explains "we are joined to things", they come from our memories, emotions, from our life. The message is: to look at the world and ourselves in a different way. It might seem easy, we'll have a go. Attempting to look (and to read) at exhibited "things" with a new attentiveness.
Launch of the Batucada collection in São Paulo. The event took place in 2010 and showcased the recycled aluminum vases, lamps and centerpieces that became sucessfully distributed worldwide. 
There was also a room with the Squiggles installation in recycled rubber and other products such as jewelry and acessories showed for the first time in Brazil. Thanks for all the friends and collaborators. 
As part of São Paulo Fashion Week, the Melissa Gallery had the lauch of their new fragrance. The plastic shoes brand is well know for its collaboration with names such as Viviene Westwood, Zaha Hadid, Campana Brothers and Jean Paul Gaultier celebrated its 30th birthday with the new perfume.
Here is the interior intervention for Rosenbaum on top of the original project by Muti Randolf, the color halftone pattern abstracted the elements of the fragrance starting with hot shades and ending in cool tones of blue. The graphics are on display at the Melissa Gallery, at Oscar Freire street, São Paulo, Brazil.
