How can we promote emerging designers and local design business and activities to an audience already engaged with the area - people who frequent cafés, restaurants, and bistros? Sitting at a table, waiting for a drink, often unsure of what to talk about, can actually be the perfect moment to catch a spark - to ignite creativity. There are increasingly clever and unexpected ways to present and promote new products and services. “Design Stories” is just a taste…
Ylenia Deriu is a contemporary jewellery and accessories designer. Her research is inspired by the morphological complexity of nature and the rationality of industrial production. Her Elitre jewellery collection is inspired by nature and specifically by beetles. Elitre is the result of Ylenia Deriu's collaboration with researcher and entomologist Andrea Colla of the Natural History Museum in Trieste. With Elitre, Ylenia Deriu aims to bring people closer to the world of insects, so indispensable to the survival of the human species.
