Product Description: Artist, graphic designer and polymath extraordinaire, Bruno Munari (1907–1998) first found fame as a member of F.T. Marinetti’s Futurist group in the late 1920s. His earliest paintings and drawings show the influence of comrades such as Boccioni and Balla, but even at this time, Munari’s art drew on a much more diverse range of avant-garde idioms, from Constructivism to Dada and Surrealism, as his collages and photomontages indicate...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

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Beginning with an 'Ant on an Apple,' illustrations, simple text, and a pesky fly who will not stay on his page introduce the letters of the alphabet.

Illustrations and brief text introduce more than twenty zoo animals, including a rhinoceros that is always ready to fight and a peacock that struts proudly because he is the peacock.

Product Description: The gentle genius of Bruno Munari (1907–98) offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions and illustrative pictures to get adults and children working together. In this volume Munari shows us how to make imaginative use of all kinds of vegetables to make fun stamps from: Never mind potatoes...read more

Product Description: As Bruno Munari wrote in 1961, “The biggest hindrance to understanding a work of art is wanting to understand.” And so he has written this diminutive book of theorems, this witty, sincere book of enlightening poems, for the struggling art viewer...read more

Product Description: “Photo-reportage is a means of expressing oneself more through images than words. The images can be sculpted, drawn or photographed, the medium isn't important. The urgent needs of modern publishing have turned the cameraman's chisel into a camera...read more

Product Description: In 1942, the artist, writer, product designer, architect, graphic designer, illustrator, educator and philosopher Bruno Munari created an enormously successful and utterly charming book 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 artificial flowers, a humiliator for mosquitoes, a machine for playing the pipe even when you are not home, a machine for seeing the dawn before anyone else and a tail wagger for dogs...read more

Product Description: Edited by Claude Lichtenstein & Alfredo Haberli. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 490 illustrations (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Engaging Italian industry and culture in a single-minded and spontaneous project of national image building, Italy's designers have produced a complete variety of forms--fashion, graphic arts and product and set design--with a unique international resonance...read more

When Jimmy misplaces one of his favorite caps, he searches throughout the house--in the closet, behind the armchair, even in the refrigerator--but turns up nothing

Mark's journey home with a special birthday present for his little boy becomes a series of starts and stops when first his truck and then a borrowed car break down just miles from home

No one is content to be just who he is as the elephant wishes to be a bird, the bird wishes to be a fish, and the fish harbors some fantasies of his own

When Lucy the giraffe from Lisbon travels, she brings along a large crate with Peggy the zebra inside, who has a trunk with Leo the lion inside, who carries his own packed valise

Circus trip presented in an unusual format with several semi-translucent pages representing the evening mist followed by brightly colored cut-out pages depicting the circus