Riccardo Bello
Publisher, administrator, production management and coordination
Bunker
Art direction, editor and book design
Luca Barcellona
Editor, editorial and art consulting
Nicolò Francesco Bello
Promotion, distribution, events
Our authors
- Alessandro Colizzi
- Alessandro Zanella
- Alfredo de Santis
- Amir-Zand-EN
- Andrea Cavani, Giulio Orsini
- Aoi Huber Kono
- Armando Milani
- Associazione Calligrafica Italiana
- AWDA
- Ayumi Kudo
- Beppe Giacobbe
- Bob Noorda
- Carlo and Livia Castiglioni
- Carlo Vinti
- CAST
- Cesare Leonardi, Franca Stagi
- Charles H. Traub
- Claudio Rocha
- Elisa Talentino
- Emi Ligabue
- Federico Gori
- Francesca Biasetton
- Francesco Bombardi
- Francesco Ciaponi
- Francesco Dondina
- Franco Fontana
- Franco Matticchio
- Gerda Videsott
- Gerrit Noordzij
- Gianluigi Toccafondo
- Giorgio Camuffo
- Guido Scarabottolo
- Gus Powell
- Gusmano Cesaretti
- Hou Hanru, Anne Palopoli
- James Clough
- Jinta Hirayama
- Jörg Müller
- Jost Hochuli
- Kathy Shorr
- Katsumi Komagata
- Letterpress Workers
- Lorenzo Mattotti
- Luca Barcellona
- Luca Lattuga
- Luca Speranzoni
- Luca Zamoc
- Luciano Perondi
- Marta R. Gustems
- Matteo Ferrari
- Matteo Sanna
- Matthew Albanese
- Maurizio Baroni
- Michele Patanè
- Nebiolo History Project
- Olimpia Zagnoli
- Onde Nostre
- Oriol Canosa
- Paolo Cremonesi
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Pietro Peressutti
- Pino Tovaglia
- Riccardo Olocco
- Ruben Rovati
- Silvia Sfligiotti
- Simone Azzoni
- Stefano Lemon
- Tony De Marco
- Typecampus & Zetafonts
- Valentina Iaccarino
- Wim Wenders
Who we are
The Independent Publishing House
Established in 2012, Lazy Dog Press is an independent publishing house specialized in visual culture. Our operations are spread across Milan, where the headquarters is located, Verona, housing administration, coordination, and the warehouse, and Modena, where our graphic design studio Bunker works. Our books are meticulously created, designed, and crafted with a focus on quality materials, manufacturing, and, above all, style. Our aim is to achieve an overall quality of the book, both in content selection and form.
The name is derived from the final part of the famous pangram The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This catch phrase contains all the letters of the alphabet and is often used to test fonts or writing devices. Among the protagonists of his vaguely surreal narrative, the figure of the lazy dog is perhaps the most likeable and versatile, the one with whom the group identifies best. The reference to the typographic world is blatant and aims to express the primary vocation of the publishing house, as well as our passion for this language.
Books and exhibitions on visual culture
Lazy Dog is focused on visual culture, exploring text and image in their mutualism. In addition to calligraphy and typography, the catalogue includes volumes and essays on illustration, photography, graphics, design, architecture and visual arts. Our aim is to divulgate books that, due to their quality and composition, foster the maturation of taste, judgement and aesthetic sensitivity. This choice is due to the historical context in which the publishing house was founded, in which images have a central role and a sometimes underestimated impact on the lives of individuals and communities.
In addition to its publishing activities, Lazy Dog curates exhibitions and cultural projects that serve as a complement to the books. Indeed, we intend the book as a vehicle for experiences and relationships in the space of knowledge. If some volumes are created to accompany an exhibition, more often it is the exhibitions or workshops that give substance to the themes covered in books. Our aim is to integrate and mix languages in order to enrich and refine the audience’s experience.
In Books We Trust!
It is our belief that the publication of books on paper reaches its full potential when it means disseminating works made to perfection. Lazy Dog titles must be able to convey the same passion with which they are created and offer the reader vibrant reading experiences. They must generate genuine emotions, stimulate the curiosity of the audience and capture their interest. In short, they must be inspiring. We believe that books can make this possible, as long as they remain themselves, printed on paper and fixed in time.
Novità
-5% OffMonogrammi IT
Original price was: € 28,00.€ 26,50Current price is: € 26,50.The book has been realized in collaboration with Fabrizio Falcone.
Monograms, the most elementary of letter combinations, paradoxically offer great opportunities for expressive creativity. Just two well-drawn letters can have more appeal and communicative power than a logotype made up of six.
Legibility is sometimes replaced by a visual puzzle: the image created by the letters is so compelling that the viewer accepts the challenge of deciphering them, and is “rewarded” with the satisfaction of having solved an enigma. This balance between complexity and seduction runs through almost two and a half thousand years of history and distinguishes the monogram from the logo, a marketing tool that emerged only at the end of the nineteenth century.
The book traces the history, design and applications of monograms over more than two millennia: from ancient Greek coins to medieval and Renaissance documents, from architecture to embroidery, and on to contemporary graphics and animated monograms. The first part of the book investigates the historical developments from ancient Greece to the modernism of the 1930s; the second examines five very different genres from the Second World War to 2024, a mere eighty years that count for as much as the previous two thousand, thanks to the creativity unleashed by the demands of consumer society and the rise of the graphic designer.
With over five hundred illustrations accompanied by critical analysis and the designers’ own words, this is the first volume to offer a serious historical and critical treatment of the subject: a resource for design historians and a source of inspiration for graphic designers, type designers and calligraphers.
Text
James CloughWith the collaboration of
Fabrizio FalconeForeword
Steven HellerBook design
Bunker, Fabrizio Falcone16.5 × 23.5 cm
256 pages
Paperback
Language: ItalianISBN 978-88-98030-53-8
First edition October 2026
€ 27,50Antologia di cultura grafica is the series Lazy Dog dedicates to the history of visual communication. Edited by Alessandro Colizzi and Silvia Sfligiotti, joined from time to time by one or more guest editors, the series offers a sequence of volumes organised around a theme or an era. Each volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of texts and images of historical importance, often previously unpublished or long out of print, each accompanied by a commentary and introduced by an essay in which the editors survey the places, figures and events considered central to the subjects addressed.
How many forms can data take? How do numbers turn into images, and images into knowledge? The fourth volume in the series explores the long history of data visualisation, from the earliest graphic representations of physical qualities in the late Middle Ages through to the digital tools of the third millennium.
The anthology gathers texts by the authors who helped define the visual language of statistics and information: from the fourteenth-century philosophers who prefigured the idea of Cartesian space, to Otto Neurath, theorist of Isotype, to Jacques Bertin, whose Sémiologie graphique laid the theoretical foundations of modern data visualisation, and on to Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, who reconsider its principles from a feminist perspective.
A common thread runs through centuries and disciplines, from historical cartography to experimental physiology, from propaganda to contemporary debates on the political value of visualisation. It shows how the visual representation of data is never a neutral choice, but always implies a position — scientific, political or aesthetic — in relation to the world it describes.
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Edited by
Silvia Sfligiotti and Luciano PerondiBook design
BunkerTexts by
American Statistical Association, Matteo Azzi, Jacques Bertin, Giorgio Caviglia, Émile Cheysson, Jacobus de Sancto Martino (attributed to Nicole Oresme), W.E.B. Du Bois, Tommaso Elli, Leonhard Euler, Antoni Jaźwiński, Giorgia Lupi, Lev Manovich, Étienne-Jules Marey, Michele Mauri, Charles-Joseph Minard, Franco Moretti, Otto Neurath, William Playfair, Joseph Priestley, Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling, John Snow, Mary Eleanor Spear, Giorgio Uboldi, Vsevolod Vasil’evskij, Emma WillardAnd contributions by
Louis Agassiz, Abū al-Rayḥān, Adriano Attus, Dominikus Baur, Hugh W. Calkins, Gioacchino da Fiore, DensityDesign Lab, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Futurefarmers, Daniel Goddemeyer, Gyeongseong Ilbo, Olivia Johnson, Josh On, Jan Lenica, Duane F. Marble, Randall Munroe, Michael Najjar, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth P. Peabody, Robert Plot, Júlia Rabetti Giannella, Werner Kolewinck, Matthew H.P.R. Sankey, Jaime Serra Pabou, Moritz Stefaner, Friedrich Straß, Roger F. Tomlinson, Awo Tsegah, Domenico Vandelli, Gwendolyn Warren13.5 × 21.5 cm
276 pages
Paperback with flaps
Italian
ISBN 978-88-98030-55-2
Available from September 2026
Magarìe IT
€ 28,00Magarìe is an illustrated book that tells a hundred years of family history through stories passed down by word of mouth: curses spoken in anger that came true, werewolves, the dead returning to the table on the night of October 31, spirits that lure travelers off the path, ancient rites passed down only among women and only on feast days.
The narrating voice is the author’s own. She weaves together the stories of two families: one Calabrian, rooted in the villages of the Sila, the other Piedmontese, settled in the Canavese. Two very distant worlds, yet joined by an invisible thread made of beliefs, dialects, and the dead who never stop inhabiting the world of the living.
The episodes unfold across a span from 1915 to the 1990s: a birth that may owe its being a girl to a grandmother’s curse; a magnetic great-grandfather who dies young, asking his wife to follow him into the afterlife; an uncle who cuts through the woods on the night of the feast and can never find his way back; deafness passed from mother to daughter like a silent inheritance. And finally the unraveling: the rite to free oneself from the evil eye, which the grandmother hands down to her granddaughter just before her own memories begin to fade too.
Elisa Talentino’s illustrations, made in watercolor and pencil with touches of bright red, build a visual archive of this everyday supernatural: female figures in dark clothing, courtyards suspended in time, bleeding mushrooms, tables laid for the absent. Magarìe is a story of double roots and inherited wonders, a book that holds documentation and enchantment together.
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Texts and illustrations
Elisa TalentinoBook design
Bunker19 × 27 cm
112 pages
Paperback with a clear dust jacketItalian
Isbn 978-88-98030-50-7
First edition September 2026
Looking Good EN
€ 38,00The book is available for pre-order and will ship from July 2026.
Looking Good is a compendium of Charles Traub’s photographs on the nature of wandering and the gaze itself, a central preoccupation of his art.
It brings together images from the mid-1970s to the present. As George Sand wrote, “the secret of the study of life lies in learning to use one’s eyes,” and Traub has pursued this study through more than fifty years of photography. People watch each other, watch Traub, stare into the void, wander in search of something to catch their attention. These are mostly candid photographs that capture the nuance of the fact that we are always in the act of observing.
What you discover, looking the way Traub does, is that in some sense we are all performers, aware or unaware, putting on different faces in the moment we are seen and see others. “The content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash, it is enormously momentary.” (Willem de Kooning)
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Photographs
Charles H. TraubText
Natasha A. ChukEditing
Yan JinBook design
Bunker21 × 28 cm
120 pages
Hardcover
EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-94-1
Available from July 2026
