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Domus magazine5/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Here we are at the beginning of printing and is still one of the most beautiful characters today. Then there are characters that have gone through history so brilliantly like Bodoni. Every artistic movement has produced architecture that you see reflected in clothes, objects and typography. ![]() “Fonts tell the story of the historical period they belong to. Ivan Chermayeff, Alan Fletcher, Robert Brownjohn, Italo Lupi, Massimo Vignelli and Simon Esterson- the many publishing industry challenges in the course of three decades, the importance of mastering the basics in typography and graphic design, the one single advice to young aspiting art directors and the difference between Helvetica and Bodoni. In the interview which you can read here, Basile talks about the masters of design he admires -Roberto Orefice, Nanni Valentini, Narciso Silvestrini. It means that this child, as long as you feed and care for it, continues to respond.”Ī post shared by Giuseppe Basile on at 10:52am PDT Few other magazines in the world have the story of Domus and are still alive. “So for a graphic designer making a magazine means adopting or giving birth to a child, and it is a project that never ends. The 60’s issues of Domus and Playboy had black pages, full of text, always interesting to read” he adds. There was more text on those pages than in many cultural magazines today. All the greatest graphic designers collaborated with Playboy, as well as the greatest opinion leaders, such as Alberto Moravia. Take for example Playboy from the golden years. I’ve never seen myself as an editorial graphic designer specializing in specialized magazines, whether they were fashion or architecture and design. “I always say that I could design a porn magazine as much as a culture magazine because my design process somehow bypasses the content. Unlike other projects – a poster, the cover of a music album – it is not an experience that is born and ends after a short time” says Basile whose editorial design process remains true to himself.Ī post shared by Giuseppe Basile on at 2:44pm PDT I had several interviews, the first one with Italo Lupi, who was then the art director of the magazine during the direction of Mario Bellini, and on the third meeting I walked out with my hiring letter” says Giuseppe Basile who is retiring after three decades. I answered the ad and within 20 days I was hired. The ad went more or less like this: ‘International publishing house, architecture magazine, searches for a graphic design manager in Rozzano, Italy’. ![]() you know, once you had whole pages of job ads in the newspaper. I had been working for ten years in the publishing world, then one day, by pure chance, a friend of mine showed me an ad in Corriere della Sera. “I joined Domus in 1998 with the idea of staying there for two or three years: I came out after 32 years. In an interview shared by Domus, Basile talked about the design transition from analog to digital and more. Giuseppe Basile aka Domus magazine's art director is leaving the acclaimed publication after 32 years of service. ![]()
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