Caleido shares the Travel diary of Gustavo Martini, Brazilian designer. Welcome to Caleido, an inspirational diary, that narrates many stories: about creative people, trends, travels, objects. / Read the Editor’s letter here
Diary of: @gustavomartini
Ph. Gustavo Martini
1. If you were to write a Travel diary from Brazil, what would your title be? What does this title mean to you?
The title would be: “The most beautiful chaos“. In Rio, where I was born, two contrasting worlds coexist: a huge city (5 times bigger than Milan) with high skyscrapers and a business center where everyone seems to be running against time and, on the other side of the street, the dense nature full of wild life that makes us understand that time, instead, moves slowly. It’s also a place full of social problems, where even the people who suffer the most never stop answering “everything’s fine” when we ask them how you are. A unique place that looks like one of those vacation spots but is instead a super active and complex metropolis.
Ph. Gustavo Martini
2. If you were in Brazil right now, who would you send a postcard to? What message would you write?
I would send it to Lorenzo Taini. He is a neighbor of mine and an artist who shares my same passion for lines. I probably would have invited him to do an art residency in Brazil and also told him that here are all the colors he is looking for in his work.
3. What is one of your objects that reminds you of Brazil? What is the memory related to it? Can you send us a photo taken by you?
I really like a small drawing I made many years ago and brought with me to Milan. This object represents this “naive” desire to illustrate what our eyes see rather than to convey how we feel in that moment. The most interesting part is that, at some point, this little drawing managed to become a memory of that instant for me. But I think it’s such a special object just for me. Design is sometimes like that. Beauty is related to experiences that sometimes precede the object.
Ph. Gustavo Martini
