An idea, born a bit by chance, becomes a photographic project, with curious and interesting anthropological implications: a kind of ‘monogamy’ – the one with one’s l car – that some owners carry on for decades, growing old together with the mechanical vehicle, which is thus, little by little, almost assuming a soul.
-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
€ 24,00Fantastic stories for real objects was born from the desire to tell the story of objects designed by the Castiglioni siblings, in particular Achille and Pier Giacomo, through an entirely original narrative lens.
Making room for the imagination, serious texts have been transformed into fantastic tales: genuine fairy tales conceived for adult-children. Behind every object lies a story, a dream, a two-way relationship with its creator.
Achille Castiglioni saw in “anonymous” objects a latent potential, collecting them and letting them mature in his mind until they became something new and extraordinarily real. This creative process, built on continuous research and reinterpretation, is told here through short stories that weave together moods, thoughts, and the design journey of those objects we now call “design classics.”
The stories, accompanied by illustrations, comics, and photographs, seek to capture the essence of the Castiglioni creative process, blending fantasy and reality with the freshness and irony that are intrinsic qualities of the family.
Each tale closes with a fact sheet that brings the reader back to the tangible reality of the object, completing a journey that begins in imagination and arrives at the real.
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Texts by Carlo and Livia Castiglioni
Illustrations by Andrea Galanti
Afterword by Dario Scodeller
Book design Bunker16.5 × 23 cm
200 pages
Paperback with dust jacket
EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-98-9
First edition May 2025
€ 70,00Piccolo albero (Little tree) is considered one of Katsumi Komagata’s absolute masterpieces: a pop-up book awarded at the Les plus beaux livres français competition in 2009 and recipient of a special mention at the BolognaRagazzi Award in 2010.
In this work, the Japanese designer reaches the pinnacle of his formal and narrative research, merging artisanal rigour with poetic delicacy. The book explores the universal themes of the cycle of life through a powerful natural metaphor. Between two white pages, a tiny tree is born, growing and changing through the seasons: leaves unfold, branches stretch, colours shift, the tree ages and finally disappears, leaving behind a seed that ensures its continuity.
The strength of Piccolo albero lies in a narrative that favours sensory perception over words: folds, textures and die-cuts guide the reader through a tactile and contemplative experience, a meditation on transformation, time and the fragile beauty of life.
About the book, Komagata has written: “I lost my uncle some time ago. Before losing someone, we cherish their presence; afterwards, we feel their absence. I chose this paper so that readers might touch it, as well as see it.” Piccolo albero thus becomes a bridge between nature and humanity, a narrative object that invites us to observe, wait and embrace the secret rhythm of life.
Text and illustrations
Katsumi KomagataBook design
Katsumi Komagata26 × 21 cm
32 pages
Hand-sewn hardcover
Italian/JapaneseIsbn 978-88-98030-87-3
First edition May 2026
Automotive Monogamy IT/EN
€ 35,00The search for subjects is done mainly in two ways: the author leaves small messages on every old car he sees around town; he also occasionally stops people driving these veterans. He also tells everyone he knows about the project, asking them to investigate in their families and, in turn, to spread the word among relatives and friends.
Then the meeting takes place, to immortalize the passage of time in this particular symbiosis, actually, between man and car: in the time lapse between ‘yesterday and today,’ in fact, the adventures and memories of an entire existence are interwoven.
Automotive Monogamy – aimed at lovers of photography and the human spirit – collects in these 96 pages and 70 photos the stories of the people behind each car, telling both visually – thanks to his shots collected in Italy, Argentina and the United Kingdom – and through the short texts that accompany them, their singular and often ‘epic’ stories.
Texts and photographs
Matteo FerrariTexts
Michele Lupi
Yorgo TloupasBook design
Bunker21 × 28 cm
96 pages
Hardback
Italian/EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-92-7
First edition November 2025
€ 30,00The artist has personally intervened on each cover, making every copy unique. The image shown here is purely indicative. Watch the video.
A visual and intimate journey through the pages of Francesca Biasetton’s notebooks—calligrapher, illustrator, and performance artist. The book is organized into several thematic sections—travel, ideas, nature, letters—and gathers years of work, notes, experiments, and graphic reflections born from daily observation and the continuous practice of drawing.
The cover itself is part of the work: each copy of the book is unique, with original hand-made interventions by the author directly on the press sheets during printing. The volume thus serves as a gateway into the fascinating experimental phase that precedes the finished work, providing a valuable tool for observing the method and imagination of a professional in drawing and lettering.
For Biasetton, notebooks go beyond a simple collection of drawings; they are instruments of investigation and storytelling. Her pages transform reality into visual alphabets. Subjects range from travel impressions to decorative patterns, from natural elements to free letter compositions. Browsing these notebooks offers an experience—gathering ideas, feeding one’s creative inquiry, contemplating the beauty of a precise mark, and honoring those pencils that can chart a path forward when everything seems still.
This book is an invitation to slow down, observe, and record thoughts and emotions, allowing a deeper understanding of oneself through paper. It offers a subtle glimpse into the personal universe of an author who guides us along this path of discovery and visual listening.
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Notebooks by Francesca Biasetton
Texts by Luca Barcellona, Fabio De Luca
Book design Bunker21 × 28 cm
112 pages
Paperback with hand-illustrated cover
Italian/EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-82-8
First edition October 2025
€ 29,00With this second volume, the H83 Documenta series continues its path of research, addressing a theme at once intimate and universal: psychological fragility. Published on the occasion of Matteo Sanna’s exhibition Oltre, held from April 12 to September 13, 2025, at the Habitat Ottantatré Art Center in Verona, in collaboration with NM Contemporary Gallery in Munich and curated by Annalisa Ferraro, the volume goes beyond documenting the exhibition setup, positioning itself as an autonomous space for reflection and experimentation.
Dedicated to fragility understood as an opportunity and fertile threshold from which new futures can sprout, the exhibition unfolds a journey of acceptance, awareness, and regained self-mastery. Each work stages an inner passage—the pause in discomfort, darkness, or disorientation—before allowing processes of resolution and rebirth to emerge. From the breaths imprinted on canvas in the 18720 – Out of Here series, to the recomposed fractures of Fragili Fraintendimenti, to the intimate, ritual gesture of Ladro di fiori, and the unprecedented luminosity of Glimmer, Sanna’s works transform vulnerability into poetic resilience, turning fragility into a possibility for shared transformation.
Works
Matteo SannaPhotography
Filippo Tommasoli
Nicola MassellaTexts
Annalisa Ferraro, Giacomo Corsi, Rosa MantovaniBook design
Bunker and Alberto Perera32 pages
15 × 24 cm
Singer stitch binding
ItalianISBN 978-88-98030-85-9
First edition, September 2025
-4% OffOriginal price was: € 83,00.€ 80,00Current price is: € 80,00.The volume Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani collects over one hundred specimens of metal and wood movable type produced in Italy between the 1920s and 1940s, systematically organized into categories and subcategories: functional, cyclopean, triennial, synthetic, modulated, decorative, and modular. The book provides historical context, offering a clear mapping of the typefaces produced in Italy during this period.
Luca Lattuga’s research, realized in this volume, is an essential tool for exploring a little-studied phenomenon, shedding new light on a coherent and recurring style largely overlooked by traditional typographic historiography, emerging from small workshops and foundries, the so-called “basso.”
The significance of Lattuga’s work extends to contemporary practice: the digital foundry CAST has reinterpreted twenty-five of these typefaces, now available as digital fonts in the Alfabeti Modernisti Type Specimens collection, published by Lazy Dog alongside the volume, as explained in the introduction by Riccardo Olocco. In this way, Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani is not only studied historically but continues to influence contemporary typographic design, demonstrating the vitality and coherence of a cultural and aesthetic heritage often forgotten.
€ 20,00Alfabeti Modernisti Type Specimens illustrates twenty-five digital revivals based on wooden and lead typefaces produced in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s, documenting a research and enhancement project that intertwines memory and design and gives new voice to a little-explored chapter of Italian graphic design.
Very popular at the time but now forgotten, the typefaces have been recovered by Luca Lattuga over a period of more than ten years. Reissued by the CAST type foundry, available for purchase at c-a-s-t.com and also available on Adobe Fonts, these geometric, sometimes vernacular, floral, highly expressive, often rationalist-inspired typefaces recount a crucial period in 20th-century Italian typography.
Their digital revival—the result of a selection from Lattuga’s complete collection published in the volume Alfabeti Modernisti Italiani to coincide with the release of this sample book—gives graphic designers and type designers full access to a unique and precious typographic heritage.
Typefaces
CASTBook Design
CAST23,5 × 28,5 cm
64 pages
Softcover with flaps
EnglishIsbn 9788898030910
Available from November 2025
€ 70,00The first print run of 1,000 copies contains an eight-page insert, hand-set in lead type and printed by Editore Tallone on high-quality paper.
For at least a dozen years, Luca Lattuga has been collecting and cataloguing metal and wooden movable type produced in Italy between the 1920s and 1940s. During his research, he rediscovered a recurring and consistent style, hitherto little considered, that characterized that period. Although widespread at the time, this style, which originated in the printing workshops, remained in the shadows for decades.
These lesser-known typefaces coexisted alongside the famous types from historic foundries, such as Nebiolo and Reggiani, surviving thanks to their versatility and affordability and enjoying spontaneous and widespread popularity even in the most isolated provinces. They remained in use until the 1960s or 1970s, effectively lasting until the end of the era of movable type printing. They were widely used in advertising, flyers, posters, book covers, and magazine headlines. They followed European trends toward more modern forms and represented a fascinating vernacular expression, entirely Italian, of the international taste of the time.
The book contains over one hundred specimens, divided and grouped into categories and subcategories. It is accompanied by a testimony from the book’s editors, Veronica Bassini and Luca Lattuga, a historical analysis by Carlo Vinti, and a technical study by Luciano Perondi. The work is completed by in-depth profiles of some of the key figures of that era: Guido Modiano, Ruggero Zuliani, Francesco and Antonio Tocchio, and a gem by Enrico Tallone.
Texts
Veronica Bassini, Luca Lattuga
Luciano Perondi, Carlo VintiForeward
Riccardo OloccoBook Design
Luca Lattuga23,5 x 28,5 cm
336 pages
Hardcover
English/ItalianIsbn 978-88-98030-90-3
Available from November 2025
Vida detenida IT/EN
€ 29,00Vida detenida brings together a series of photographs taken by Pedro Almodóvar in a domestic, intimate space, during moments of solitude and contemplation.
Away from the film set, Almodóvar shoots to perform a deeply pop gesture: transforming ordinary objects — glasses, flowers, plates, utensils — into small secular altars, charged with memory and desire. These are not simple still lifes, but still life as in ‘arrested life’: each object preserves vitality, responds to light, and changes over time.
These are photographs without post-production, where the focus lies in emotion rather than perfection. As Almodóvar himself writes: “What interests me is the ecstasy of the moment, staying alert and capturing the emotion of the instant.” This fragile, vibrant tension runs through every shot, where the beauty of the everyday becomes sacred, precarious, and never consoling.
Amidst painterly reminiscences — like the work by Isabel Quintanilla that inspires the first shot — and literary echoes — such as the verses by Wordsworth quoted by Simone Azzoni in the afterword — Vida detenida is a poetic journey through a daily life transformed into a postmodern ritual, where objects lose their primary function and become emotional enigmas.
A rare and precious book, where — as in his cinema — things reveal themselves by surprising us.
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Photographs by Pedro Almodóvar
Texts by Pedro Almodóvar, Simone Azzoni
Book design Bunker15 × 24 cm
Leporello
24 pages
Italian/EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-83-5
First edition September 2025
Building Bridges IT/EN
€ 23,00Building Bridges is Olimpia Zagnoli’s tribute to Gio Ponti—a volume conceived as an extension of the exhibition of the same name, inaugurated in early 2025 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm.
In this project, Zagnoli—one of the most influential illustrators and designers on the international scene—explores the encounter between her unmistakable style, marked by vibrant colors and soft forms, and the rational yet poetic aesthetic of Ponti, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian design.
The book features 32 previously unpublished illustrations that create a visual dialogue between the artist’s iconic female figures and the modernist architecture of the celebrated architect. It is also a deeply personal homage: Zagnoli lives in a building designed by Ponti himself.
The work stands as a refined celebration of mid-20th-century Milan, reimagined through the irony, lightness, and graphic sensitivity that define the artist’s unique perspective.
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Illustrations by Olimpia Zagnoli
Texts by Giovanni Bellucci, Francesco Di Lella, Olimpia Zagnoli
Book design Bunker13.5 × 19 cm
80 pages
Hardcover
Italian/EnglishIsbn 978-88-98030-81-1
First edition April 2025
Marcello IT
€ 25,00Marcello is part of the IBBY Italy Choice 2025 selection, in the picture book section.
Marcello is a gigantic man who lives in Rimini and works as a wrestler. Initially, we follow him through his daily routine: intense training sessions, huge meals of traditional Romagnola flatbreads (piadina), and swims in the sea.
The seemingly consistent and linear image of the character becomes complicated when we discover that his profession is not driven by a true passion, but rather a choice dictated by the body he was born with. Marcello’s greatest desire would have been to play the guitar, a dream he gave up early on because his muscles, too large, prevented him from holding the instrument.
It is this frustration that transformed him into the man he is today: a macho figure who is actually hiding wounds and disappointments behind a mask. The fragile balance that supports the wrestler’s life is shattered when he falls in love with Luisa, the person who referees his matches. He is struck by her presence during a match and becomes distracted, taking a hit that knocks him unconscious.
At the end, Marcello, who had uncritically assumed a role shaped for him by social conventions, takes the first step toward freeing himself from this painful condition.
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Text and illustrations Ruben Rovati
Book design Bunker20 × 28.5 cm
32 pages
Hardcover
ItalianIsbn 978-88-98030-80-4
First edition April 2025
La tela IT
€ 26,00La Tela. Viaggio animato tra femminismo e diritti is an illustrated book that tells the history of feminism through words and images, adopting the concept of a flipbook as its narrative format. The sequential illustrations, when flipped quickly, appear to move like cartoons, alluding to the dynamism of feminist movements, showing their evolution.
The book takes a global perspective, with references to countries such as France, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Germany, Australia, Russia, and England. The reading becomes a sensory experience that blends illustrations and text, inviting reflection on the past as well as on the present and future of the struggles for gender equality.
Written by Oriol Canosa and illustrated by Marta R. Gustems, the book retraces 150 years of global feminist history, starting from 1872 in Birmingham and extending to the present day. Through historical events, key episodes, trial records, dialogues, anniversaries, and more or less well-known figures from around the world, La Tela explores the path of women’s emancipation movements, intertwining historical narration with illustration. The Italian edition is enriched with an introductory note by Barbara De Micheli.
The distinctive element of the volume is the use of moving illustrations: when the pages are flipped quickly, the images come to life, creating a visual effect that simulates animation. This mechanism is used to represent the evolution of feminism and its impact over the decades, offering a dynamic and engaging reading experience that blends narrative with visual art.
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Text by Oriol Canosa
Illustrations by Marta R. Gustems
Translation by Francesco Ferrucci
Introductory note by Barbara De Micheli
Book design Bunker18 × 13 cm
616 pages
Paperback
ItalianIsbn 978-88-98030-79-8
First edition March 2025
