We’re still working to touch up iBiennale, which is truly turning into a one-stop digital location where you can find everything about the Venice Biennale. Not only does it have the full catalogues of the exhibits, but it also has tons of in-depth features, ways to interact and reference points to customize your visit and expand your knowledge. Through this latest update, you’ll see the new and improved free portion of the application: we’ve created a section that’s got an original design and unique functions (or at least, we think so). If you haven’t already, download iBiennale and tell us what you think. The Venice Film Festival starts today – inside the app, you’ll find the whole program. Enjoy the show!

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The blog Il mondo secondo Franci describes, in a very amusing and “Duchensian” style, an adventure-filled retrieval of the book in a notable Milan bookstore. The press has also begun talking about the book and how it is being promoted through this game: in the newspaper Affari e Finanza, Paola Jadeluca reports on the digital investments made by the publisher, Marsilio Editori, while in Corriere della Sera, Alessandro Beretta writes about the book and website’s exhilarating main character, Giuseppe Sobreroni.

Play the game and spread the word!

We have been working on promoting a great new book called La gente che sta bene (The Well-Off) by Federico Baccomo “Duchesne”. The press has started buzzing about it and we’re about to put the special game site online. It’s a fun idea where you can win a free copy of the book and participate in the official presentation with the author himself. Stay tuned on the book’s Facebook page and try your hand in a challenge with the mysterious Giuseppe Sobreroni, the main character in the book.

We’ve switched the lights off and pulled the plugs. As a matter of fact, “unplug and play” is one of our old maxims. So we’re signing on with the M’illumino di meno (Light up less) initiative of Radio2 program Caterpillar. You should, too!

Not long before the recent revolts in North Africa and the Middle East, we were working on this particular blog pertaining to that very region of the world, to promote an interesting book by Jacques Charmelot. Our idea was to talk about the book the way a friend of the author would have, say, a journalist-friend who collects news items and stories about his investigative reporting from Baghdad on the war in Iraq. Real questions arise from Wikileaks documents and from the Abu Ghraib investigations, all told by an imaginary character who is in a certain way connected with the new book. It’s a mingling of the true and the probable, something we love to experiment with, as you know. Each post begins with a mysterious sentence in Arabic… check it out!

The novel has now arrived in bookstores and we’d suggest you read it: it’s got a gripping plot and makes some very interesting references to current and recent events in the Middle East.

The TV2000 program La compagnia del libro (n.d.t. The Book Club) came to visit us at the H-Farm. We told them the story of our company and what we do, in a quick tracking shot that runs from WHAIWHAI to our art catalogs, from our foundation to our prospects for the future. Watch the interview with Tomas Barazza in our offices.

For the 50th Anniversary of Marsilio Editori, the program about books also set aside lots of room to discuss the history of the Venetian publishing house, which we are now part of. This installment includes an interesting lengthy interview with Cesare De Michelis (italian).

The new year has begun with a pleasant surprise “hanging” from the AppleStore in Palo Alto. It’s the iBiennale icon, for our iPad and iPhone app dedicated to the Biennale, the Venice International Architecture Exhibition. Apple has selected it as one of the icons to decorate the store with! You can see it in the picture above – it sticks up for itself nicely, don’t you think? We’re back at work today and more new items are on the way – we’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, happy new year, everyone!