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Souvenir Roma
Here in Roma the streets are filled with typographic history. But my interest today is Futuristic artifacts. My first souvenir is a deck of postcards featuring caricatures drawn by Tullio Crali, the...
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Futurists and Their Exhibitions
The Italian Futurists were nothing if not self-promoting. The number of magazines, newspapers, and other printed matter that extolled their ideas was incredible. And the frequency of exhibitions over...
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Elegantissima!
Louise Fili is the most elegant woman I know—no exaggeration—so I had to smile when I learned the title of her monograph was Elegantissima (Princeton Architectural Press). She’s also the most Italian...
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The Futurist Post Office
With post offices like this, who needs email? My friend Michele Angelini over at Italian Ways has made the kind of archeological design discovery that comes close to matching Heinrich Schliemann’s...
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Marinetti’s Pre-Futurism
Poesia magazine is the foreplay before the birth of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti‘s Futurism. And so, in 1905 in Milan, he founded Poesia, which quickly became his first of many offspring in the battle for...
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One Bolted Book Commemorates Another
FuturPiaggio: Six Italian Lessons on Mobility and Modern Life (Rizzoli) by Jeffrey Schnapp, founder/faculty director of metaLAB at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and...
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