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Perpetuo! — Paper perpetual calendar

We have been looking for illustrating a story made of paper, ferrying the observer across a river of typography, history and atmospheres: a calendar with no beginning and no end, no months and no years, but only days and the flow of time.

Perpetuo! — Artifacts For The Home

From the moment it is freed from its packaging, Perpetuo! starts narrating the time spent together and day by day it will grow with us. The paper will change, yellowing and swelling, stained by the memories that we would have lived hand in hand, becoming a silent narrator of the fantastic journey that life represents.

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Shortlisted D&AD Awards Artemia Tommaso Gentile Bottega Artemia

Calendario Perpetuo di Artemia su Elle Decor

Perpetuo! Awards and Exhibition Awards: Shortlisted at D&AD Awards (2020), Winner at European Design Awards (2020)
Exhibition: Salone Del Mobile, Euroluce Corraini Mobile, Milano (2023) — Vienna Design Week, Puuul Space, Vienna (2021) — M9 Museo Del ‘900, Bookshop, Venice (2019>2023) — Punta Della Dogana Museum, Pinault Collection Bookshop, Venice (2019>2023) — Venice Design Week, Galleria San’Eufemia, Venice (2019) — Milano Design Week, FuoriSalone, Milan (2019)
Articles: DOMUS, AD Italia, Elle Decor, Pulp Eye Magazine
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Perpetuo! — Artifacts For The Home

Hour after hour, through the shadows that are created and bloom throughout the day, a visual tale is set up between the environment and the observer, devoted to emphasize the present.
From the moment it is freed from its packaging, Perpetuo! starts narrating the time spent together and day by day it will grow with us.

The paper will change, yellowing and swelling, stained by the memories that we would have lived hand in hand, becoming a silent narrator of the fantastic journey that life represents. If it were to be smudged, scribbled on by our child, hot or cold, Perpetuo! will remember… never forgetting anything.

Perpetuo! a perpetual calendar on paper

AD, Concept & Design: Tommaso Gentile
Design development: Tommaso Gentile, Laura Doro
Calligraphy: Laura Doro
Copywriter: Tommaso Gentile
Photo: Simone Marcuzzo — Photo Styling: Sara Sarli
Set Design & Photo Artworks: Simone Marcuzzo, Cecilia Vanin
Motion Design: Cecilia Vanin

Artifacts For The Home

Visual architectures, enclosed in a book block of paper, on the surface of which, every day, different shadows will continuously appear, aimed only at narrating the passing of time and escorting the eye during its rustling.

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