Bruno Munari

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as �the new Leonardo�. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children�s books, advertising, cars and chairs � these are just some of the subjects to which he turns his illuminating gaze.

Design as Art

appunti per una metodologia progettuale

Da cosa nasce cosa

«Fantasia. Tutto ciò che prima non c'era anche se irrealizzabile.» Fantasia, invenzione, creatività e immaginazione nelle comunicazioni visive. È possibile capire come funzionano queste facoltà umane? Che relazione hanno con l'intelligenza e la memoria? Munari spiega tutto ciò con argomenti chiari e moltissimi esempi visivi noti e ignoti. E anche come si stimola la creatività e come si può allenare la mente a essere più elastica e più pronta.

Invenzione, creatività e immaginazione nelle comunicazioni visive

Fantasia

In the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on shapes: Circle, Square, and, a decade later, Triangle. Using examples from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well as works by Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto, Munari invests the three shapes with specific qualities: the circle relates to the divine, the square signifies safety and enclosure, and the triangle provides a key connective form for designers. One of the great designers of the twentieth century, Munari contributed to the fields of painting, sculpture, design, and photography while teaching throughout his seventy-year career. After World War II he began to focus on book design, creating children's books known for their simplicity and playfulness.

Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle

Artista e designer

Arte come mestiere. Ediz. illustrata

Arte come mestiere

contributo a una metodologia didattica

Design e comunicazione visiva

After more than eight years of intensive research this is the

The Fine Art of the Gesture

Speak Italian

Drawing A Tree (About the Workshop Series)

Fantasia. Invenzione, creatività e immaginazione nelle comunicazioni visive

Bruno Munari reflexiona en este libro sobre el diseño como culminación de procesos. El recorrido que efectúa el diseñador desde que se enfrenta con un problema funcional hasta la proyectación y configuración de su solución material, se analiza de una manera sistemática, discutiendo y clarificando cada paso, hasta el punto de que los así enlazados se convierten en el claro camino que conduce hacia la comprensión de lo que es el diseño en su esencia. .

¿Cómo nacen los objetos?

Roses in the Salad

Bruno Munari was an internationally acclaimed artist, designer, and children's book creator. Acontemporary of Leo Leonni, his books have been hailed as "among the most original, inventive and beautiful ever created." Zoo is among his most graphically stunning works. Meet the kangaroo, who is all legs but doesn't know it, the zebra in his striped pajamas, and the humpy camel, who has a seat for you. Young readers will enjoy Munari's bright, bold illustrations; older readers will appreciate hiswry humor. From children to collectors, Bruno Munari's Zoo is certain to enchant a whole new generation. "Graphic designer Bruno Munari is one of the most inventive picture book creators I know. I have been inspired, entertained, and in awe of his work since I was a graphic design student in Germany more than 50 years ago. And Zoo has been one of my favorites. I am delighted that it is available once again for a new generation of picture book readers of all ages." Eric Carle

Bruno Munari's Zoo

The first-ever English translation of Bruno Munari’s classic treatise on creativity, replete with new contextualizing annotations

“But isn’t imagination also fantasy? And can’t fantastic images also assume the form of sounds? Musicians speak of sonic images, sound objects. How does one invent a fish tale, an air-cooled engine, a new plastic? ... fantasy, invention, creativity think; imagination sees.”
Never before translated into English, Bruno Munari’s Fantasy, originally published in Italian in 1977, invites the reader to explore their own imagination, creativity and fantasy through a journey into Munari’s mind and work. His theory of creativity, developed in conversation with the Reggio Emilia Approach (a self-guided approach to education) and the work of Jean Piaget (a Swiss developmental psychologist who proffered a theory termed “genetic epistemology”) foregrounds the book’s journey through Munari’s design processes, both working for clients and teaching design principles to children. By turning both life and work into a classroom, Munari unlocks a path through imagination in order to access his, and in turn the reader’s, deepest sense of play.
The facsimile reprint is accompanied by new contextual annotations by Munari scholar and design historian Jeffrey Schnapp. These microinterventions highlight the innovations that make this work as relevant today as when originally published.

Bruno Munari (1907–98) was an Italian artist, designer and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in Modernism, Futurism and Concrete art, as well as to nonvisual arts (literature, poetry) through his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning and creativity.

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