What is the secret in children’s education? What feeds their enthusiasm in the continuous process of learning? The one who has so eloquently answered this question, and has built a real educational method, is the famous artist and designer and writer, Bruno Munari (Milan 1907-1998). He identifies in surprise the element that can stimulate children

by Salvo Taranto It is the “futuristic novel” par excellence, so to define itself like that in its subtitle. Il Codice di Perelà (Perelà’s Code) is a strange creature brought forth by Aldo Palazzeschi in Milan in 1911. They were times of great opposition to the traditional novel, a resistance led mainly by the magazine

After years of photographic experiments, assisted by two younger brothers Arturo and Carlo Ludovico, in 1911 Anton Giulio Bragaglia (1890-1960) published the essay Fotodinamismo Futurista (Futuristic Photodynamism) in which he enters his results in the newborn movement founded a year earlier by the poet and man of letters Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The effect is that

In the climate of Milan of the thirties with the subtitle Magazine of Aesthetic and Graphical Technique, was born “Campo Grafico.” By the will of two artists of the advertising poster art – Carlo Dradi and Attilio Rossi – and a group of printers willing to enter into the Italian graphic tradition an already transposed

by Francesca Codeluppi Elizabeth II is an object woman. It would seem to be the incipit of yet another sociological essay on the condition of women in our time, to highlight the difficulties and harshnesses that belong to gentle sex at times. But no: the above statement is targeted, reasoned and literally understood. Back from

It’s Monday, access codes do not work, the operating system does not respond. Turn it off and on again. Nothing. Then comes the terrorist mail we have learned to know well: it looks like your account has been violated. No come on! Is it true? So I have to deal with it. Already. It’s called

by Rossella Romito It would be interesting to mount a camera and film the facial expressions of people watching for the first time Riccardo Guasco’s illustrations. Expressions would be somewhere between amused, enraptured, amazed and floored. From the first glance it is clear that among his models are especially artistic movements such as Cubism and

by Salvo Taranto Gianrico Carofiglio called it “the most beautiful bookshop in the quantum universe” and he is, by no means, not the only one who thinks so. Many other Italian and foreign authors fell in love with a place where classic and modern atmospheres enhance each other. Palazzo Roberti library is since 1998 a

by Rossella Romito Who knows if in the twenties, while planning a wooden model similar to the future glass equivalent, Fortunato Depero thought that after 80 years, we would have continued to talk about his bottle designed for the Campari Soda. It is obvious that we will never know it, but we cannot deny that

Located in the heart of Romagna, a short distance from “Terra del Sole”, old strategic center for its close relations with Tuscany, until, in 1830, on the occasion of a process for saltwater smuggling, a Florentine expert examined Castrocaro water, discovering the precious thermal properties that for long centuries had fallen into oblivion. Terra del