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  Dove c’era un prato IT

  Jörg Müller

  € 19,00

  Seven incredible drawings of the same landscape, portrayed from 1953 to 1972, and how it changes in such a short time. The debut work by Swiss artist and illustrator Jörg Müller, first published in 1973 and thanks to which the author made an international name for himself, was then something completely new in the world of picture books and is today as relevant as ever.

  No words, it is only the plates that speak and a date that marks time: where there was a meadow, a stream, a house painted with vegetable gardens and flowering trees, shortly afterwards there is also a tractor and a train passing in the background. Page after page the forest and the stream are gone, chimneys and industrial plants arrive, the painted house is demolished to make way for a busy motorway and a supermarket.

  A landscape that changes face in the space of a few years, a tale in pictures that is not intended to be a nostalgic cliché of the rural environment, but a chronicle of vivid immediacy of the change brought about by the glorious age of progress. The author’s beautifully drawn plates are timeless and without place, painting a scenario that most of us have experienced over the past sixty years: we all remember that childhood meadow that is now gone, and unfortunately we continue to see others disappear.

  The edition of this book tries to be partly faithful to the first, original German edition by giving the pictures space and centrality. Dove c’era un prato (Where There Was a Meadow), which won the author the German Youth Literature Award in 1974, is today a great classic on the environment, which triggers urgent and necessary reflection.

  With a text by Giulia Mirandola, careful curator of cultural projects that focus on visual reading and the relationship with the landscape.

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  Illustrations by Jörg Müller
  With a text by Giulia Mirandola
  Book design by Bunker

  30 × 23.5 cm
  24 pages
  Hardback
  Italian
  Isbn 978-88-98030-39-2
  First published May 2021

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  Fuochi d’artificio. Catalogo illustrato IT

  Jinta Hirayama

  € 19,50

  The effect of fireworks at the moment of explosion seems impossible to reproduce on paper, due to its ephemeral and iridescent nature. Yet in late 19th century Japan, Jinta Hirayama undertook this challenge by publishing an extraordinary catalogue.

  While the purpose of the booklet was once to show Hirayama Fireworks Company’s customers the variety and originality of its pyrotechnic productions, complete with instructions for use, today the illustrated fireworks catalogue stands before our eyes as a valuable work of graphic art. 86 magnetic illustrations, geometric and elegant, rigorous and striking, that manage to evoke the brilliance and magnificence of the fireworks as they appear at night and constitute the restored reproduction of the original catalogue, dated 1883.

  It was precisely in those years that Hirayama’s company distinguished itself in the production of fireworks, making notable technical innovations that culminated in a new expressive horizon: from the exclusive use of orange hues, it moved on to a riot of colours.

  As well as being a source of inspiration, the singular illustrations intrigue the beholder with ever-changing combinations, and lead right back to the Japanese etymology of the term: page after page one seems to see ‘flowers of fire’ (in Japanese, hanabi). An unusual and original book, with the unmistakable flavour of yesteryear of an art that has never gone out of fashion.

  With a precious childhood memory by Aoi Huber Kono, and lettering on the cover by Luca Barcellona.

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  With a text by Aoi Huber Kono
  Cover lettering by Luca Barcellona
  Book design by Bunker

  12 × 18 cm
  96 pages
  Paperback + dust jacket
  Italian
  Isbn 978-88-98030-40-8
  First published July 2021

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  Morricone IT

  Maurizio Baroni

  € 79,00

  The first major work devoted entirely to the film discography of maestro Ennio Morricone. The only one of its kind, it is the brainchild of the collector, author and film expert Maurizio Baroni, who draws from his own boundless archive to create a comprehensive review covering over fifty years of his prestigious career, much of it previously unpublished, including the maestro’s autographed manuscript scores, soundtrack record covers and much more.

  Expertly accompanying the over 550 images in the volume are texts by Germano Barban, a journalist and expert on cinema and film music, and impassioned speeches by great directors and actors, revealing some of the background to this extraordinary success and the reasons for the influence that Ennio Morricone has exerted on the collective imagination through his music. A full-scale homage to this great Italian film music composer, undoubtedly the most famous in the world.

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  Texts by Maurizio Baroni, Germano Barban and Dario Argento, John Boorman, John Carpenter, Liliana Cavani, Edda Dell’Orso, Roberto Faenza, Christopher Frayling, Daniele Furlati, Lisa Gastoni, Giancarlo Giannini, Guido Lombardo, Mauro Maur, Giuliano Montaldo, Franco Nero, Gino Paoli, Nicola Piovani, Quentin Tarantino, Giuseppe Tornatore and Carlo Verdone
  Cover design by Luca Barcellona
  Book design by Bunker

  22 × 30.5 cm
  368 pages
  Hardback
  Italian edition
  Isbn 978-88-98030-30-9
  First published October 2019

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  Una storia lunga come IT

  Pino Tovaglia

  € 19,00

  Why Pino Tovaglia kept this unpublished work, or what its true genesis is, we will never know. The fact is that his daughter Irene, getting her hands on her father’s materials, found these 24 plates, held together with tape, with an intriguing cover where the Pirelli logo stands out, front and back. The mystery deepens because the managers of the famous brand claim that there is no trace of such a project in their archives; even during the years of the collaboration between the designer and the multinational company nothing leads back to this pamphlet, which appears to be a real prototype.

  Whatever its origin, it is in any case an interesting and singular study of the elongated form, which Tovaglia evidently enjoys doing of his own free will. The association with the brand, as far as we can surmise, probably arises by analogy with the content, or vice versa.

  The 56 pages of A story as long as are thus a valuable exercise in style, reproposed in its formal integrity, but adapted for a contemporary publication, accompanied by a short text by Marta Sironi, which allows us to investigate and enhance the more human side of one of the most significant figures of Italian graphic design in the second half of the twentieth century. 

  Dedicated to fans of graphic design, illustration and simple admirers of a great protagonist who spontaneously addresses children, with a hint of mystery…

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  Illustrations by Pino Tovaglia
  Text by Marta Sironi
  Cover by Flavia Ruotolo
  Book design Bunker and Flavia Ruotolo

  21 × 12 cm
  56 pages
  Paperback with dust jacket
  Italian
  Isbn 978-88-98030-54-5
  First edition November 2022

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