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Good Design, Bruno Munari, 1963

From Corraini Edizioni:

“With its good-humoured look at natural shapes seen through the eyes of a designer, this hugely significant book is celebrating its 50th anniversary.  An example of good design? An orange  -  'an almost perfect object where shape, function and use display total consistency'.”

Read the full text here.

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A sphere lit from the top, four sides, and all their combinations, Sol Lewitt, Set of twenty-eight inkjet prints, 2004

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Magic Eye stereogram

Find the hidden image by holding the image to your nose and moving the image slowly away from you until the hidden image comes into focus. 

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Perspective machine by Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence, ca. 1400

From Drawing Academy:

“As the story goes, one sunny morning in Florence, Italy, Filippo Brunelleschi appeared at the gate of the not-yet-completed cathedral, holding a little painting and a little mirror. Already considered a magician by half of Florence because of the dome he was building without any scaffolding, Master Filippo gathered a sizable crowd for his demonstration.

Brunelleschi led the crowd to the gate of the cathedral so that they would look in the direction of the Baptistery outside the building. He gave a painting with a hole in the middle to somebody in the crowd and asked him to keep the unpainted backside of the painting towards himself and to look through the hole with one eye into the direction of the Baptizing Chapel. Then the master suddenly lifted a mirror in front of the painting, covering the chapel from the viewer’s sight, and asking loudly enough so that people further away in the crowd could hear: “What can you see, Sir?” “Oh, the Baptistery, Sir Filippo!” the man replied.

The audience was amazed. On the other side of the painting, the chapel was depicted perfectly and the hole was right on the horizon, just at the vanishing point. So the mirror showed just the same as the reality it covered.”

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Draughtsman Making a Perspective Drawing of a Reclining Woman, Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1600

See other Renaissance perspective machines here.

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From Bruno Munari, The Square (also Circle, Square, Triangle), 7th reprint 2016.

Example of a consistent framework for varying content sources

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From CLOG: Rendering

"Breaking It Down” showing elements of renderings: People, Sky, Context, Project

Text from Archizines:

CLOG was launched as a response to the speed at which architectural imagery is distributed and consumed online. "While an unprecedented amount of work is available to the public, the lifespan of any single design or topic has been reduced in the profession's collective consciousness to a week, an afternoon, a single post—an endlessly changing architecture du jour. In the deluge, excellent projects receive the same fleeting attention as mediocre ones. Meanwhile, mere exposure has taken the place of thoughtful engagement, not to mention a substantive discussion." CLOG aims to slow things down. Launched in 2011, each issue explores a single subject particularly relevant to architecture now from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means. Succinctly, on paper, away from the distractions and imperatives of the screen. www.clog-online.com

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Excerpts from Speak Italian, by Bruno Munari, 1958