Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle

Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781616894122

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.

The Triangle

The Triangle
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 103
Release: 1976
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788875701291

Along with the circle and the square, the equilateral triangle is one of the three basic forms, and is suitable to be combined in modular frameworks to generate a structured field in which endless other combinatorial forms may be constructed.

The Square

The Square
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Corraini
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9788875700645

Bruno Munari investigates the design elements of the square and its use in designs as diverse as churches, monuments, games and fonts. He investigates the meaning of the square as the idea of enclosure, home and settlement as well as the interesting permutations that can be achieved from the monotonous repetition of four sides.

Drawing a Tree

Drawing a Tree
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Maurizio Corraini (Edizioni)
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

For Drawing a Tree, Bruno Munari proposes: "When drawing a tree, always remember that every branch is more slender than the one that came before. Also note that the trunk splits into two branches, then those branches split in two, then those in two, and so on, and so on, until you have a full tree, be it straight, squiggly, curved up, curved down, or bent sideways by the wind."

In the Darkness of the Night

In the Darkness of the Night
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781616896300

First published in Italy in 1956, Bruno Munari's In the Darkness of the Night tells the tale of an interconnected, intimate yet expansive journey across three settings—in the darkness, through a meadow, and into a mysterious cave—through a spellbinding combination of paper stocks, transparencies, cutouts, and simple but lively characters. This timeless artist's book, available in a new English edition, is a must-have for Munari fans, designers, bibliophiles, and lovers of exceptional book design.

Drawing the Sun

Drawing the Sun
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: About the Workshop Series
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A playful and vibrant guide to drawing the sun In Drawing the Sun, Bruno Munari suggests: "When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ballpoint pens--you can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn."

Design as Art

Design as Art
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008-09-25
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0141920807

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.

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Author: Sam Rohdie
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780253210104

Pasolini was a controversial film-maker, poet and essayist, best known for his films narrating myths, such as Oedipus Rex, Medea, Theorem, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron and A Thousand and One Arabian Knights. This book is a personal account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature, written by the author of Antonioni and Rocco and his Brothers.

Bruno Munari's Zoo

Bruno Munari's Zoo
Author: Bruno Munari
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-02-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780811848305

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

Bauhaus

Bauhaus
Author: Jeannine Fiedler
Publisher: Hf Ullmann
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783848002764

"The Bauhaus continues to radiate exuberance 90 years after it was founded. The Bauhaus as a school, where handicrafts, art and technology were taught together, has outlived the subsequent fashions in architecture and design. This volume provides an insight into the historical, cultural philosophical, political and pedagogical circumstances of the early years. In the process it portrays the famous Bauhaus directors and teachers, shows the Bauhaus pedagogical methods and accompanies the readers through the individual workshops, where they can rediscover a wealth of form and ideas which retains its uniqueness today. The essays about the current discussion about the Bauhaus as „fixed star of the avant-garde", the fill of in part unpublished visual material as well as the multitude of the aspects covered constitute a comprehensive representation of one of the most significant institutions in the art and cultural history of the Modern. "