Concrete poetry, which emerged simultaneously in Brazil and Switzerland during the 1950s, practically took the exploration of the morphology, repetition and rhythm of words to the limit, being one of the most efficient and genuine manifestations in the sense of freeing thought from the shackles of representation and create an independent domain for the language.

In addition to an analogy with the German concept of Industry 4.0, the initiative led by scientist Carlos Nobre aims to integrate technology, biology and ancestral knowledge around a systemic view of the largest tropical forest in the world: the Amazon has countless biodiversity, a precious ore reserve, in addition to being the biggest carbon sink on our planet.

What shape do you see in the image above? Many of us have thought for a moment that we had found a unique shape in the silhouette of a rock, in a stain on the wall, in the dregs of our morning coffee, or even in a passing cloud. Because this is the illustration of a very rich chapter in the history of psychology, phenomenology and semiotics, signed by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the homonymous test that popularized it.

Despite being most recognized by the use of experimental and heterodox methods, the creator of psychoanalysis had also a narrow bond with archeology. In true, bond is a modest term to quote someone that had owned a collection with more than 2,000 articles — practically all of them originals — of antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.

At the end of 2020, after one century of life, died Armin Hofmann, one of the sponsors of the famous Swiss Style created by Design School of Basel, where he started to teach with 27 years. His typographic principles, that revolutionized the graphic arts and elevated the country reputation to international standards, are main references for professionals and taught in school until today.

In a TED of the beginning of 2020, journalist and economist Mike O’Sullivan makes use of well-founded arguments to proclaim the end of the globalization era. Whatever the most interesting is not the announcement of what is being transposed, but of what begins to take form: a time when nation-states don’t follow a unique international order, but a multiplicity of them.