IN THE DARK NIGHT

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To understand the book “In the dark of the night”, we should start by saying that in the beginning there was the unreadable book: a book without text, whose abstract images transform themselves by fliping through the pages. According to Munari, these books were intended to experience all the visual communication options and printing techniques not involving words. So it appears the book ” In the dark of the night”. An object that reconfigures the relationship with the reader by combining the visual side to the challenge posed by the materials that are also agents of narration. Nothing is incidental in this book, all aspects of visual and material intertwine to build an indivisible structure full of meaning. A true masterpiece from the hands of one of the most influential designers of the XXth century. Bruaá

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Considered one of the great protagonists of XXth century art, Bruno Munari was born in Milan in 1907 and dies in the same city on 1998. Linked to the futurist movement since 1927, he became an inseparable name of industrial and graphic design, with fundamental contributions in the several areas of artistic expression such as painting, sculpture, cinema, etc, carrying a multifaceted investigation on the themes of motion, light, creativity and fantasy development in childhood through games. It’s for this children’s world that he starts to create books, originally conceived for his son Alberto. His children books were simple and learning provocative tools. Never separating content form shape and materials, everything he created was simultaneously a book, an object and a game that made us think. Always interested in searching of ways of simplifying e clarifying the design process, he focused during his last years in themes related with didactics psychology and pedagogy.