(Milan, 1967) — Graphic designer and independent researcher, she teaches at ISIA Urbino, IUAV and the University of the Republic of San Marino. She has curated numerous publications and exhibitions on visual communication, was co-editor of the magazine Progetto grafico and is a contributor to Eye Magazine. Her work focuses in particular on the history and criticism of graphic design and on training in somatic perspective.
Antologia 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 Each volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of texts and images of historical importance, often previously unpublished or long out of print, each accompanied by a commentary and introduced by an essay in which the editors survey the places, figures and events considered central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.
—
Edited by
Silvia Sfligiotti and Luciano Perondi
Book design
Bunker
Texts 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 Willard
And 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 Warren
13.5 × 21.5 cm
276 pages
Paperback with flaps
Italian
ISBN 978-88-98030-55-2
Available from September 2026
Out of Stock“Antologia di cultura grafica” is the new series dedicated to the history of visual communication. Edited by Alessandro Colizzi and Silvia Sfligiotti, assisted from time to time by one or more guest editors, the series offers a series of volumes, organized around a theme or era, and includes a rich anthology of texts (articles, essays, chapters, excerpts, posters) translated into Italian and introduced by an essay by the editors.
“Countercultures,” the second volume, contains twenty-five texts and forty-eight color images on the editorial and communicative production of groups and movements active in the political and artistic spheres that have played an essential, though not always recognized, role in the history of visual communication, giving rise to languages of rupture, bearers of alternative visions of society.
The selected texts and images testify to the birth and spread of ideas, forms of expression and techniques that have made visible some important countercultural movements since World War II, from Situationist détournement to subvertising, from pacifism to environmentalism, from feminism to gender and ethnic minority claims, from the psychedelic revolution to the sexual revolution, from punk provocations to the visual research of underground magazines and Soviet-era samizdats.
The resulting picture shows how the practical and theoretical action of countercultures, often addressing issues that are still relevant today for the first time, helped change not only visual languages but the very way of doing graphic art, both in approach and style.
—
Antologia di cultura grafica 2
Edited by Francesco Ciaponi & Silvia Sfligiotti
Book design Bunker and Alessandro Colizzi
13,5 × 21,5 cm
276 pages
Paperback with flaps
Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-62-0
First edition February 2024
-20% Off«Incontri» is a sui generis memorial that the famous designer Armando Milani gives us at the sunset of his career. This book captures through flashes, fragments and plots, the fundamental encounters that most influenced his work and inspired his creative choices. Each anecdote is accompanied by a large selection of images.
Bob Noorda. A life in the sign of graphics» is a cult book, dedicated to the undisputed master of visual communication Bob Noorda, which reviews half a century of career in which he created more than one hundred and sixty brands. The interview is by Francesco Dondina.
«The modern question in Europe», the first volume of the series «Anthology of graphic culture», addresses the graphic debate within the modern movement of the years between the two wars, with an extended look at the European continent to include authors of cultures and national histories so far neglected by historiography.
“Antologia di cultura grafica” is the new series dedicated to the history of visual communication. Edited by Alessandro Colizzi and Silvia Sfligiotti, assisted from time to time by one or more guest editors, the series offers a series of volumes, organized around a theme or era, and includes a rich anthology of texts (articles, essays, chapters, excerpts, posters) translated into Italian and introduced by an essay by the editors.
“La questione moderna in Europa”, first volume of the series, addresses the graphic debate within the modern movement of the interwar years, with an expanded look at the European continent to include authors from cultures and national histories hitherto neglected by historiography.
Far from being a unified phenomenon, the modern movement was characterized by a plurality of manifestations and the presence of very different theoretical positions. In particular, modernist graphics was the result of a process of negotiation between actors belonging to different national contexts. Moreover, actors from multiple disciplinary fields participated in its formation: advertising, publishing, architecture, photography, journalism, and the printing industry.
This anthology reflects the variety of orientations and opinions expressed both within individual national events and by the different personalities involved, who interpreted the ideology of the modern in ways and forms as heterogeneous as ever. The panorama that emerges is decidedly more nuanced and hybrid than has appeared in existing publications to date, and allows us to grasp the phenomenon in its theoretical, aesthetic, technological and social complexity.
—
Antologia di cultura grafica 1
Edited by Alessandro Colizzi, Silvia Sfligiotti & Carlo Vinti
Book design Bunker and Alessandro Colizzi
13,5 × 21,5 cm
280 pages
Paperback with flaps
Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-56-9
First edition February 2023
Login
