Fantasy

Bruno Munari's Fantasy, originally published in Italian in 1977 and now available in English for the first time, invites readers to explore imagination, creativity, and fantasy through the lens of Munari's pioneering design mind. His theory of creativity, developed in conversation with the Reggio Emilia Approach and Jean Piaget's developmental psychology, foregrounds a journey through his design processes—both commercial work and teaching design principles to children.

By transforming life and work into a classroom, Munari unlocks pathways through imagination to access deep play and creative thinking. This facsimile reprint includes new contextual annotations by Munari scholar Jeffrey Schnapp, highlighting innovations that remain as relevant today as when originally published. Bruno Munari contributed fundamentals to painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design, literature, and poetry across Modernism, Futurism, and Concrete art movements.