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Bob Noorda - Italian Graphic Designer

Ottagono 12, 1969

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Content includes:
Vittorio Gregotti – Memory of Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Mario Bellini – A designer’s home
Ferdinando Rossi – Pictures of a living room
Matteo Longoni – Interior of a hospital institution
Claude Aureau and Marcel Gascoin – A furniture store in Paris
Adalberto Dal Lago – The conversations of Natalia Aspesi
Gianfranco Frattini – Modular elements for a diaphragm
Silvio Coppola – For an American lunch
Fausto Lenci – Furniture for a bedroom
Pierluigi Spadolini – Modular system of padded pieces
Cini Boeri – The bacucco
Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni – Reflected lighting
Giuliana Gramigna – A bright object
Studio Tetrarch – To illuminate: almost a toy
Licisco Magagnato – 1 new drawings by Alessio Tasca, News and design innovations
Marco Dezzi Bardeschi – The exhibition of Francesco Giorgio and the engineer military genius of his time
Pier Carlo Santini – Aspects of architecture: Spadolini’s intervention in the restoration of banking institution
Guido Ballo – Encounters with art: The sign-gesture of Roberto Crippa
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Direction: Sergio Mazza
Editing: Giuliana Gramigna
Graphics: Bob Noorda / Unimark
Photos: Ballo, Casali, Clari, De Benedetti, Di Puccio, Porters, Masera, Mulas, Primois, Svegliado
Direction, editing, administration, advertising: Milan, via Melzi d’Eril, 26, tel, 315407-315508
Publisher: CO.P.IN.A. s.r.l.

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Bob Noorda / Unimark
  • Year: 1969
  • Size: 211mm x 241mm

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Ottagono 12, 1969. Design by Bob Noorda / Unimark
Ottagono 12, 1969. Design by Bob Noorda / Unimark
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