New Releases by Bruno Munari

Text and photographs introduce a variety of stones and suggest pictures to paint on them.

This quirky handbook of Italian gestures, first published in 1958 by renowned Milanese artist and graphic designer Bruno Munari, will help the phalange-phobic decipher the unspoken language of gestures--a language not found in any dictionary. Photos.

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."

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."

Artwork by Bruno Munari.

The journey of a birthday gift and the different means of transport it must use to reach its destination. But what''s inside? Again, a tale that winds through pages of different sizes.

Un vendeur d''animaux propose des animaux de compagnie pas très conventionnels à un client, qui rejette, à chaque page, ses propositions farfelues. Lorsque le vendeur, à court d''idées, il lui demande "Mais alors que veux-tu ? ", sa réponse est encore plus inattendue ! (evene.lefigaro.fr).

Artwork by Bruno Munari.

Bruno Munari (1907-98) was an artist & graphic designer who transformed childlike impulses into effective design. 490 illustrations

Trois parties : la première, imprimée sur calque, permet de se perdre dans le brouillard de Milan ; la seconde, sur papiers de couleurs différentes, invite au cirque ; la troisième ramène dans le brouillard.