Fabrica
Italy
Fabrica is Benetton's communication research centre, created in 1994 from Benetton's cultural heritage. Fabrica's challenge is both an innovative and international one. It is a way of marrying culture and industry, using communications which no longer rely only on the usual forms of advertising, but transmit "industrial culture" and the company's "intelligence" through other means: design, music, cinema, photography, publishing, and the Internet. Fabrica has chosen to back the hidden creativity of young artists/researchers from all over the world. Following careful selection, they are invited to develop concrete communication projects under the direction of some of the main players in these areas.