Giorgio Camuffo

A graphic designer and art director, he is a professor of visual communication at the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bolzano. From 2006 to 2009, he was director of the degree program in Visual and Multimedia Communication at the Iuav University of Venice. He has curated several international exhibitions, including Graphic Design Worlds (Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 2011) and the fifth edition of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, TDM5: Italian Graphic Design (with Mario Piazza and Carlo Vinti, 2012). Among his recent publications: Imago 1960-1971, Corraini 2021, Bodoni, Corraini 2016 and Macchine per disegnare, Corraini 2021.

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    Le macchine del maestro Paolini. Sussidi didattici autocostruiti 1955-1980

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    A story within a story is that of Paolo Paolini, artisan by necessity and master by genuine vocation. He did not graduate from high school until he was 36 years old, making great sacrifices and working the most diverse jobs before crowning his youthful dream: to become a master. It all happens in post-World War I Italy, according to the testimony of Paolini’s daughter Sara – who was also his pupil for three years – and the stories of his grandson, Francesco Bombardi, editor with Giorgio Camuffo of this book. 

    A beautiful story, narrated and illustrated by Veronica Martini, as are many others, whose protagonists are teachers and teachers – some very famous, such as Giuseppina Pizzigoni, Alberto Manzi, Mario Lodi, Ettore Guattelli – others unknown or less celebrated, such as precisely Paolini.

    Paolini unfortunately does not leave many written testimonies, only a few lines and a few letters with other teachers and pedagogists in Italy and abroad; too little to trace a theoretical path. However, to try to understand more deeply the purposes that guided his work, one must learn to read his machines, the notebooks he designed with his pupils and the games he invented. Those published in this 128-page volume, documented by numerous photographs, are not only objects constructed by a skilled hand but are also texts that reflect the way Paolini understood school and the figure of the teacher. Around this topic revolve the interventions and reflections of Franca Zuccoli, Dario Scodeller, Barbara Caprara and Gerda Videsott, feeding the interdisciplinary debate between education and design in its inevitable and continuous evolution.

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    Edited by Giorgio Camuffo and Francesco Bombardi
    Photographs by Giulia Pezzin, Luca Weste and Isabel Righi
    Book design Giulia Pezzin

    12 × 18 cm
    128 pages
    Paperback
    Italian
    Isbn 978-88-98030-66-8
    First published July 2023

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    Progettare per i bambini. Dialoghi tra design ed educazione

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    The history of design is rich with figures who have experimented with collaborations with the world of education. The dialogue between the two disciplines has been for design an opportunity to research visual forms and languages, and for education an opportunity to introduce innovative, more creative educational models with a more playful attitude. Today, however, the situation is very different. The two worlds, stimulated by increasingly accessible technology, are experiencing a moment of transition to new centralities. The designer is an increasingly articulate figure, capable of attracting other figures to tackle complex tasks and activate learning practices.

    The Design for Children master’s degree, from the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bolzano, was born and found its place starting from the idea that this ‘soft and spacious’ form of understanding design can be fertile ground for experimenting and implementing new tools and a different way of understanding an educational community. The medium chosen by the curators to respond to such aspirations is dialogue. 

    Those published here – between Lorenzo Bravi and Alessandra Falconi, Pietro Corraini and Monica Guerra, Claude Marzotto and Noemi Satta, Eugenio Cosentino / Parasite 2.0 and Adelita Husni-Bey, Ilaria Rodella and Chiara Guidi, Carlo Tamanini and Marco Peri – involved professionals from various backgrounds: theater, art, cultural mediation, strategic design in the social sphere, museum education and so on; all, however, with the relationship with children at the center of their activities. The value of this book lies in the diversity of approaches, the plurality of cues, suggestions, and openings that the dialogues generated.

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    Edited by Giorgio Camuffo and Gerda Videsott
    Illustrations by Chiara Zilioli
    Book design Giulia Pezzin

    12 × 18 cm
    128 pages
    Paperback
    Italian
    Isbn 978-88-98030-64-4
    First published July 2023

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