Foreword by Gunther Januth, Daniela Rossi Saretto, Enzo Nicolodi, Sabina Kasslatter Mur, Luigi Cigolla, Florian Mussner. Text by Giorgio Maffei, Annie Pissard, Barbara Nestico, Marzia Corraini, Valerio Deho.
Edizioni Corraini's Bruno Munari "Workshop" series focuses on a variety of creative tasks and skills that inspire the active involvement of adults and children alike--flower arranging, in this case. In "A Flower with Love, " the beloved Italian artist and designer lets us in on the secret: ..".what really matters is the love with which a little daisy, a lavender sprig or some moss are chosen, that one there in particular and not that other one...
A one-of-a-kind xerograph is the result of an image or object that is moved while the photocopy machine is in motion so that a new--impossible-to-replicate--image is produced. The resultant image is, then, not a copy of the original image or object but an original in its own right. This rigorous process of exploiting the photocopier's potential was developed by the quixotic Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari in the series "Quaderni di De...
Double Face "offers readers of all ages a seemingly endless series of stylized variations on the human face, each of which is a "double" that can be viewed without a top or a bottom, without a start or an end. By simply turning the book upside down, the reader/viewer causes each face to alter its expression in a variety of funny, unexpected and entirely delightful ways. Artist Gianpaolo Pagni infuses his gallery of characters with plenty of gr...
Artist, writer, product designer, architect, graphic designer, illustrator, educator, and philosopher Bruno Munari created an enormously successful and utterly charming book in 1942 called Le Macchine di Munari. Faithfully reprinted here, it contains instructions for building the most fantastical of mechanical structures, including a machine for taming alarm clocks, a lizard-driven engine for tired tortoises, a mechanism for sniffing artificia...
First published in 1944, Bruno Munari's Fotocronache, here translated into English, was and remains one of the finest, most amusing, and most significant lessons on the uses of photography for communication. With his charming, generous wit and inimitable perceptive abilities, Munari offers a zinging analysis of the power of the image--as a communicator of specific knowledge and a site into which completely other knowledge can be read.
Each of these three books presents a fascinating history of the art and design of a particular object, detailing, with hundreds of painstakingly-collected examples and informative texts, the multitude of varieties of pencils, cutlery, and bookmarks. These books will appeal to those who value both the beauty and functionality of everyday objects, simple tools that are made with astonishing precision and care. Above all these are superbly design...
Each of these three books presents a fascinating history of the art and design of a particular object, detailing, with hundreds of painstakingly-collected examples and informative texts, the multitude of varieties of pencils, cutlery, and bookmarks. These books will appeal to those who value both the beauty and functionality of everyday objects, simple tools that are made with astonishing precision and care. Above all these are superbly design...
