Book By Its Cover » Nella Notte Buia/ In the Darkness of the Night

3.15.07

Nella Notte Buia/ In the Darkness of the Night

Bruno Munari

This is my favorite (and probably the most famous) of all the Bruno Munari children’s books I’ve seen, but I certainly haven’t seen them all. According to the Italian wikipedia page on him, he’s done forty-three kid’s books not to mention the countless number of design books. I have the english reprint from 1999 and it looks like there were two editions before this one. This book is full of surprises. There’s drawings on black paper, holes punched out of pages, die cuts, layers of vellum pages and a treasure chest you can lift to see it’s contents.The publisher, Corraini Edizioni, can give you more information on his books or you can pick up a copy of this one and his others at Dia Books.

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7 Comments

03/15/07 5:02am

Marieke wrote

That looks amazing! Must go after it myself :-) thanks –

03/15/07 9:30am

Cat wrote

Bruno Munari is an inspiration for any designer, or children’s related professionals. He also inspires the great book artist Katsumi Komagata and I think you will love his books. They are beautiful and unique as Komagata’s story.
http://www.formandcolours.com

03/15/07 10:05am

Karen C wrote

What a fun book for children and adults alike! Not only do you get to read with your children, you explore all the nooks and crannies and see their faces light up!

03/15/07 10:32am

julia wrote

Thank you Cat for the great link! Those look amazing.

03/15/07 1:26pm

julie wrote

wow…a treasure of a book..really beautiful.

03/20/07 11:33am

frances wrote

i am such a fan of munari! when i saw you started this blog i knew he would pop up! i adore his fork book!

04/26/07 7:26am

Luke Fechner wrote

Wow. I’m going to have to start looking up all these books (and others) now.
:o)

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