Having enjoyed the two Mari, let's further explore Italian Modernism with Munari. Bruno Munari, born in Milan in 1907, started his creative experiments as a young member of the Futurist movement, and kept that playful, irreverent avant-garde spirit alive throughout his long artistic career. This eclectic and inventive genius was one of the key Italian figures of the last century in the fields of art, visual communication, industrial design, graphic design, didactic, design theory, children’s books and more. In 1940 the birth of his son Alberto inspired Munari, who at the time was working as art director for a magazine, to create a series of innovative, open-ended children’s books and toys designed to develop creativity and imagination through play while tickling the funny bone. The following books are some of his early creations, from the historic series first published in 1945 and recently reprinted by Corraini in Italian and English versions. Munari loved working with new ideas, materials and technologies, and the unconventional layouts of these experimental books include different sizes of paper, holes and other devices. Toc Toc : Who is it? Open the Door In Toc Toc, pages open like doors and containers to reveal their surprising animal contents, while becoming smaller and smaller like paper matrioshkas. A Tale of Three Little Birds The birds Ciò, Cià and Cì tell the stories of how they ended up in a cage in three small separate booklets inserted within the large album. Complete with holes to add extra interest. Animals for sale The animal salesman offers the child his exotic beasts, represented on pages that become progressively shorter, but the child refuses because of their strange habits, and would much rather have roast turkey with a side of potatoes. Never content These animals, like most of us humans, are unsatisfied with their lives and dream of being somebody else. This ironic circular story uses the device of small camouflaged inserts that open to reveal the animal’s fantasies. Munari published over 40 books, many of which were addressed to young children. Check out Munari’s Zoo and Bruno Munari’s ABC, originally published in the sixties and reprinted in the US by Chronicle.

Drawings from Bruno Munari’s Design As Art (1966) Look Into My Eyes by Bruno Munari An exercise in seeing the world through the eyes of others. This artist’s book, first published in 1969 as …

The egg has a perfect form even though it comes out of a butt. -Bruno Munari{{1}}[[1]]Bruno Munari, Bruno Munari (Milan: Rotanda della Besana, Silvana Editoriale, 2008), 28.[[1]] I never thought looking at a Xerox copy made in the 1970s of some string swirled around on a copier's glass would lead

Bruno Munari (1907–1998) is the definition of prolific, which otherwise means to present in large numbers or quantities; plentiful. The large numbers in this case are the books he designed and/or authored from 1929 through 1992, as industriously chronicled with bibliographic annotations translated from Italian in Girogio Maffei’s MUNARI’S BOOKS: The Definitive Collection of Book Designs by Bruno Munari (Princeton Architectural Press). When Munari began designing and illustrat

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The egg has a perfect form even though it comes out of a butt. -Bruno Munari{{1}}[[1]]Bruno Munari, Bruno Munari (Milan: Rotanda della Besana, Silvana Editoriale, 2008), 28.[[1]] I never thought looking at a Xerox copy made in the 1970s of some string swirled around on a copier's glass would lead

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En 1976 Michèle Mouton est une pilote Alpine qui commence à se faire un nom. Elle débute sa quatrième saison en rallye par l’emblématique Monte-Carlo. C’est sa première participation à cette épreuve et elle se classe à une très belle onzième place derrière quelques grands noms du rallye de l’époque comme Munari, Waldegard, Darniche, Röhrl, Alen, Frequelin ou encore Darniche ! Une étoile est alors née ! Lire la suiteShow less

Ho da poco scoperto un mondo: i “prelibri”. Sono libri fatti di materiali diversi, inventati da Munari e ripresi poi in mille salse. Riscriverò questo post quando avrò tempo, per ora m…