torgeiraamboe's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
aiudinic's review against another edition
3.0
3.5⭐️ i found the first half of the book more useful and relevant to me vs the latter portion
giselav's review against another edition
2.0
I'll be honest: I didn't get it. Maybe I'm in the wrong branch of design (graphic & illustration) but all of the writing in this book felt incredibly theoretical, distante and vague to me.
ame3_33's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Munari spiega cosa significa essere artista e cosa significa essere un designer (ma non un designer alla francese, quelli non sono designer lol). L'ho trovato un po' troppo logorroico, ma in alcuni punti geniale. Credo che la progettazione del libro però non funzioni in digitale (non è colpa sua non c'era al suo tempo 🙌🏻), avrei preferito che la casa editrice avesse rimescolato un po' le carte in tavola e fatto un ebook di facile lettura.
johannd's review against another edition
2.75
Insufferably annoying, a product of 20th-century modernism. Do the Japanese zest lemons with chopsticks?
andystone's review against another edition
5.0
A perfect book. Read through individual sections a number of times and my copy is a mess of highlights and notes to reference down the road.
Design as Art is easily the most influential book on my design philosophy.
Design as Art is easily the most influential book on my design philosophy.
ficklefever's review against another edition
4.0
read this during my move from austin to nyc. given to me as a parting gift from a coworker, so there's sentimental value here. this became my first "subway read" - which felt like a mini rite of passage, or maybe that's just me being sappy - and it felt nice, to have this token from back home with me as i traveled through 25-minute commutes from little italy to ues.
sebswann's review against another edition
3.0
“The designer of today re-establishes the long lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. Instead of pictures for the drawing-room, electric gadgets for the kitchen. There should be no such thing as art divorced from life, with beautiful things to look at and hideous things to use. If what we use every day is made with art, and not thrown together by chance or caprice, then we shall have nothing to hide.”
If you look books examining the intersection between art and design; Munari gives his perspective on design, examining a variety of subjects.
If you look books examining the intersection between art and design; Munari gives his perspective on design, examining a variety of subjects.