In May of 2008, we designed a folding booklet for “Open Days”, a project made by Spiazzi, of renting the exhibition area during the opening days of the Architecture Venice Biennale, with the purpose to offer a space to these people that don’t have the possibility to afford the rental of a suitable place during the months of the Architecture Biennale.
We called the project “Open Days, Happy Days”, and designed the icon of a street sign, that point at an hypothetical direction to the exibition. The project has formed of a group of small signs, each with a different color, placed at the square in the front of Spiazzi’s entrance. With their sign system they would cause a feeling of disorientation. We also designed a system of title wall for the exhibitions. The design was based on a grid of A4-sized hung prints, very easy and pratical to update. At the end of the project, all these A4-sized sheets, bound togheter, would became the exibition’s catalogue. Unfortunately the project never began. The only piece produced is this folding booklet, which explains the aim of the project and the technical features that the place could offer.
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