Another initiative of the Industrial Design Faculty of the University of the Republic of San Marino celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bruno Munari.

After the DVD “A Lesson on Design” based on the recording of a lesson held by Munari in Venice in 1992, four new postage stamps dedicated to the grand master.

The series was designed in 2006 in the Laboratory of Fundamentals of Two-dimensional Design held by Omar Vulpinari, in collaboration with the Republic of San Marino Post. Amongst the work from Vulpinari’s first year students, Ilaria Montanari’s “Compasso d’oro ad ignoti” (Golden compass award to unknown) proposal was selected.

The project intends first of all to celebrate a design pioneer but at the same time it wants to honor “good design”, that is modern, simple, functional, time-less, affordable to all. The type of design that education must always foster.

The stamps feature illustrations of four objects of daily use created by unknown even before the coinage of the term “design”, still valid today in homes and work places. People continue after many years to buy them because they don’t follow style trends, don’t distinguish class, they’re beautiful, have honest prices and work properly. These products are perfect examples of “good design”.

Munari awarded these objects, along with others he selected, his “Compasso d’oro ad ignoti”, playing around with the world famous Italian design prize “Premio Compasso d’Oro ADI”.

The stamps, which will be on sale from April 20th 2007, are the result of the first collaboration between the newborn Industrial Design Faculty and the government of San Marino.
 
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