nuggets

A collection of half-serious notes, cues and reflections on the job I do and on the world around it. I wrote them during many years spanning my whole professional career. Some articles are quite dated and refer to topics belonging to an era now defunct, but I still wanted to have them all published, for you to browse and get to know me better – but don’t take them too seriously.

Never enough
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We can never get enough. This could be the one slogan condensing the franticness of our lifestyle rhythms. There’s never enough. Of everything: never enough time, never enough money, never…

We’re all bakers
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“We’re all bakers” was the title of an imaginary TV program that, in an advertisement of some years ago, taught the art of pastry-making. The protagonist of the spot, trying…

A normal job
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I am a lighting designer. When I find myself in a group of new people and I’m asked what my job is, their comments to my answer are always a…

Hair Stylist
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I used to get my hair cut by an elderly barber. His shop boy was kind and accommodating, and his shop was straight out of an Italian neorealist film. The…

Traffic lights
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Technological development runs fast and anticipates the future. In the lighting sector, innovation is giving a huge contribution to the solution of one of the problems that are greatly affecting…

Blackout
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My parents lived the last world conflict, and their stories about that period dotted my childhood. Of course, they spared me the really dramatic episodes and rather concentrated on the…

Gratis
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The light, you know, must be designed. And everybody offers lighting designs: producers, promoters, resellers, installers. Gratis, for free. That is, they don’t get paid. Nothing. And since nothing is…

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