UsineDeBoutons (Italy)

UsineDeBoutons
http://www.plug-pray.org

is an art group situated in Padova founded by Lionello Borean and Chiara Grandesso.

Lionello Borean worked in Treviso on editorial design and graphics. In 2001 he leaved the design studio he had founded to start a new creative atelier with Chiara Grandesso to explore design out of traditional and commercial ways, working on art projects with social background.

Chiara Grandesso worked in Milan, London, Paris and Kyoto (Japan), with her artistic projects and as designer. She has a MA at Royal College of Art (London) and she won the ‘Parallel Prize’ with her final degree work. She designed the Philippe Stark’s signature logo during the collaboration with him, in Paris.

UsineDeBoutons participates in

  • JavaMuseum
  • Current Positions of Italian netart

  • Violence Online Festival
  • curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne