This is a fantastic ice cream place: Fassi “Il Palazzo del Freddo” (the Palace of Cold), is an ice cream parlor in activity (still in the same place) since 1891!!! Their famous gelato is called “pezzo duro” (the hard chunk), and is a 8 cm diameter, 5 centimeters thick chocolate ice cream cilinder… Try it, is delicious, they cover it with a huge amount of whipped cream too.

Inside the store you can see ice cream machines from 1930s and a collection of their advertising posters from the same period. They were also famous in Europe for being the first to deliver ice cream from Rome to London (1934), with a special way to preserve it from melting! This is a real working example of good service design!

This is the book to read! John Thackara’s In the Bubble Designing in a Complex World. Published by the MIT Press .

We love mobile phones!!! Lovely Nokias are our obsession, they look cute and colorful, very stylish and kinky, like our friend Livia mobile that you see in the pic!

For all the friends, designers, and curious people in Rome. We will relaunch CuteCircuit website on thursday May 5th, come to join us in Via Palestro 64 (near Termini station) for a tea party starting at 5.05 pm! If you are not in Rome connect to our website at 5.05 and you will see the new website launch live!

Read Francesca’s interview about the F+R Hugs project written by journalist Oliver Stallwood for London’s The Metro!

Francesca is going to be interviewed about the hug shirts by Jenny Casterton from BBC Radio Wales for Good Evening Wales program! She is going to be on air at 5.55 pm Rome time, visit Radio Wales website for listening to the interview live broadcast! We love BBC!

Ginza, a recent entry in our sushi list. We decided to abandon all the others! Is fantastic, with a nice relaxed atmosphere (they don’t try to rip your money off like in other sushi places in Rome) and the Japanese staff is lovely! Is the only Japanese restaurant in Rome that makes excellent unaju (a bed of rice covered with a layer of eel) just for connoisseurs…

This is a new service for travellers based on telecommunication technologies. Would you like to have some extra luxury when you travel? Do you think carrying suitcases is very annoying and old fashioned? Do you think that could be nice to try something new when you are away from home?

This is Luxury Now!, just board your flight without suitcase, seat and relax, when in-flight entertainment starts switch to Luxury Now channel, select the clothes you will be wearing during the next days of your stay in Paris, choose among Dior, Saint Laurent, Kenzo, choose your size, colors, even underwear, shoes, make up, moisturizing cream, and enter the address of your hotel. Slide your credit card and your wardrobe for the travel is booked!

Upon your arrival at the hotel, check in and reach your room… Opening the closet you will find everything you ordered on the Luxury Now menu. Try different styles, play with your new wardrobe, and if you like select a few garments for receiving them at home when you’re back.

Finally it’s summertime in Rome!

CuteCircuit wearables will be featured at Cyberfashion Show event at SIGGRAPH 05 in Los Angeles on August 3rd, meet us there! The Cyberfashion Show is organized by Isa Gordon at Psymbiote.