Never-before translated into English, these facsimile reprints of Bruno Munari’s Fantasy (Fantasia, 1977), and Design and Visual Communication (Design e Comunicazione Visiva, 1968), are accompanied by contextual annotations by Munari scholar and design historian Jeffrey Schnapp, whose micro-interventions highlight the innovations that make these works as relevant today as when originally published.

Fantasy invites the reader to explore their own imagination, creativity, and fantasy through a journey in Munari’s mind and work experience. By turning life and work into a classroom, Munari unlocks a path through imagination in order to access his, and in turn our, deepest sense of play.

Design and Visual Communication bridges design education and everyday life. Published after Munari served as visiting professor at Harvard’s Carpenter Center, Design and Visual Communication takes over fifty lessons, class materials, and even letters home, and transforms them into a book about the future of art, architecture, and design. Conceived as a living volume, the book was written as inspiration to current and future designers to push beyond the past, however recent, and develop new tools to see and understand tomorrow’s world.

The third book in the series, Nothing Comes From Nothing: Notes for a Methodology of Design (Da cosa nosce cosa, 1981), will be published in Fall 2027.