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Ci vuole un fiore
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The kingdom Plantae offers wonderful stories. Ci vuole un fiore is a book that reveals the natural beauty of flowers and plants, enriched by photographs, graphic elements and patterns.
Plant photography: Eleonora Marchi
Publisher: Codice Edizioni
100 idee per crescere
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This book is a manifesto: a selection of the most important ideas on health and parenting for girls and boys made by Uppa, publisher specialized on themes related to parents and children.
Texts combine with bright pantone colours in a clear layout that allow Italian and English texts to be in the same page, easily recognizable thanks to their positioning and to titles’ color.
Published by Uppa
Layout: Francesca Grillo
Giunti Varia
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Book covers and editorial design for Varia series since 2020, published by Giunti Editore
Codice Edizioni
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In 2019 Codice Edizioni decided to renew the graphic system of its editorial production, made of scientific and fiction titles. The publisher's request was to rethink both inner pages and covers. The redesign aim was to obtain uniformity and recognizability through a simple and flexible layout. One of the brief specifications was to make cover images as clear as possibile.
Cover layout is based on a grid that recalls the square shape of Codice’s logo, a strongly identifying element (not redesigned). Images have a great visibility thanks to the absence of frames or graphic elements that could hide them. Particular attention is given to colour selection, as hues are vivid as possible, both in images and texts. There are several possible positions on the grid for logo and texts, but a diagonal alignment is constant.
All books have in common layouts and composition rules, but differ in the iconographic choices on covers: photographs, historical images and minimal graphics are used for the science titles; illustrations, all designed by Davide Bonazzi, appear on fiction covers. From a typographical point of view, opposite choices have been made for the two categories: a sans serif for the scientific titles, a serif with high contrast and contemporary details for fiction.
All cover images continue on the spine of the volume, in order to have colorful and variable spines, all recognizable for a new identity element: the "c", extrapolated from Codice logo and positioned at the bottom. The result of the redesign is cohesive and recognizable, but at the same time dynamic and mixed.
Quadri della natura
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Alexander Von Humboldt was an explorer and a thinker who defined nature as a global network in which everything is intertwined.
Quadri della natura, after 210 years since its first publication in 1808, is a great classic of scientific literature; even today it represents a model of narrative ability, precision in details, wonderful figurative descriptions of places and animals.
Publisher: Codice Edizioni
Pasta. Le forme del grano.
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A book about pasta shapes, recipes and stories that have made this food symbol of Italian gastronomic culture.
Published by Slow Food Editore and curated by Antonio Puzzi.
La scuola di cucina Slow Food
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Real cooking classes by Slow Food to approach the kitchen in the way that has been the foundation of its philosophy for years, made of sustainability, quality and passion for the practice of preparing food. In this book recipes and tips about bread, vegetables, soups, pasta, fish, meat and sweets are collected.
All chapters feature an illustrative icon and a colour, while the bended angle is the common graphic element used for both backgrounds and images, as if there were sheets collected in a old recipe book.
Published by Giunti and Slow Food Editore
Pizza. Una grande tradizione italiana.
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Pizza. Una grande tradizione italiana is a book that tells the story of a great Italian success that has conquered the world. Tips to choose the basic ingredients and to combine them in order to get the perfect alchemy are presented together with 16 illustrated stories of local pizzerias and their best recipes, and above 386 addresses to eat a good pizza through Italy.
Book published by Slow Food Editore and curated by Antonio Puzzi.
'Volti, forni e ricette' photos by Davide Gallizio.
