Ventura Lambrate is celebrating its fifth anniversary by bringing in the district emerging designers and the students of the most important academies of the world. For six days the shops, garages and sheds expose the best ideas of 2014. If you want to discover the true creativity, the one of the low cost prototypes, but also the inventiveness that has nothing to envy to the big names, this is the place you need to visit in the Milano Design Week.

Tortona Around Design has consolidated as the nerve center of the Fuorisalone. The big names patrol the neighborhood and have now almost evicted the young creatives. Nevertheless, the sources of inspiration are many and ateliers are competing to see who will be able to anticipate needs, changes, evolutions in the market and society.

Let's take a walk in Milan to see the images of Fuorisalone 2014 that struck me most.

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IBM produces the smallest video of the world... not the shortest, but the one where the actors are the smallest possible! Here's an animation using atoms... incredible!

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When it comes to Milano Design Week, the Fuorisalone has now become the main stage.
Outside the institutional paths of the Salone del Mobile, it's on the Milan streets that you can experiment the innovative design. Surely it is less glossy, but looking in small boutiques, in converted garages and in the most unlikely spaces, you can find the real creativity.

Let's walk along the streets of Milan to explore the districts dedicated to design and let's collect in a photo gallery the most interesting objects.

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It's truly amazing this video based on anamorphic illusions by Brusspup.
The principle is like the advertisements you see on the football fields or along the tracks of motor racings: in practice it simulates an unlikely three-dimensionality thanks to distorted photographies.

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The Amsterdam's Anne Frank Museum published a really interesting mobile application: it allows city visitors to see the town at the time of the Second World War.
Using the smartphone's camera and the GPS technology, you can look at Anne Frank's places thanks to augmented reality or even take a picture that combines contemporary elements with historical data.

Take a look at the video to see the magic...

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