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Industrial designer

Bruno Munari was an Italian industrial designer known for his contributions to children's education, graphic design, sculpture, and photography. His design philosophy emphasized innovation and practicality, influencing designers of later generations.

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“L'uovo ha una forma perfetta benché sia fatto col culo.”

Arte Understatement Relatività

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“When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.”

Ifs Moments Artist Secret Communication That Moment Sensitivity

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“To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.”

Able Simple Complicated Simplify

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“Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.”

Made Creativity

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“A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.”

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“An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.”

Should Use Form Objects Ass Consistent Judged Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design

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“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

People Long Art Today Lost Contact Designer Living Things

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“When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.”

People Trying Hands Remember Felt Sun Fronts Paper Draws Balls Drawing Dawn Sunset Pens Phenomenon Pencils Markers Crayon Chalk

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“Progress means simplifying, not complicating”

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“To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult”

Easy Difficult Simplify

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“Only he who has a different visual opening can see the world in another way and can pass on to his neighbour the information required to broaden his field of view...let us get used to looking at the world through the eyes of others.”

World Way Different Eye Used Views Information Fields Opening Visuals Another Way Neighbour Through The Eyes

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About the Author

Born: October 24, 1907
Died: September 30, 1998
Known for: Industrial designer
Quotes: 11

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