Bruno Munari was a designer and artist, and this is his manual for how to design. Not a mood board, a method. There’s no common English edition, so it keeps its Italian title here.

His approach reads like a flowchart drawn by an artist. Define the problem, break it into smaller problems, gather your information, play with materials, prototype, refine. Munari didn’t believe creativity was a lightning strike. He thought it was a process you could trust and repeat.

That idea sits quietly under how I work. The projects that looked most creative from the outside usually came out of patient, unglamorous decomposition rather than one big flash of insight. He also believed good design should be honest and useful for everyone, which is the lens I bring to enterprise tools that ordinary people have to live with all day. It’s the oldest book on the shelf and still one of the most modern.