Design and Visual Communication

English translation of Bruno Munari's 1968 Italian work, Design e Comunicazione Visiva. The volume originated after Munari served as a visiting professor at Harvard's Carpenter Center. The text transforms over fifty lessons, class materials, and letters into a discussion on the future direction of art, architecture, and design fields.

The content focuses on the broad scope of visual communication, which Munari defines as encompassing everything our eyes experience, from technical drawing to simple graphics and phenomena like moiré patterns and optical illusions. The book is written to inspire current and future designers to create new tools to see and understand the world. The modern reprint includes a facsimile of the original work, accompanied by annotations from scholar Jeffrey Schnapp, which highlight the continued relevance of Munari's ideas.