THE ITALIAN MANIFESTO
OR: THE CULTURE OF THE 999 CITIES
International Design Conference in Aspen, 1989
Italo Lupi [Designer]
[IDCA] and the Italo Lupi [Design]. THE ITALIAN MANIFESTO OR: THE CULTURE OF THE NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE CITIES. Aspen, CO: International Design Conference in Aspen, 1989. Original edition. Booklet. 12-page staple-bound booklet in a mailing envelope. A near-fine example in a very good envelope with slight rubbing.
12-page staple-bound booklet [10.75 x 8.5] designed by Italo Lupi. Includes a Manifesto by Bill Lacy and Paolo Viti and a list of participants among other conference information.
From "Italo Lupi Sees All, Does All, Shows All" by Steven Heller on the webiste for Print Magazine [January 7, 2014]: "Italo Lupi and Italian Graphic Design are synonymous. Born in Cagliari in 1934, he lived in various places in Italy before residing in Milan, where he graduated from the faculty of architecture at the Polytechnic University. His design career began in concert with Mario Bellini and Roberto Jewelers as three co-art directors for the Office of Development La Rinascente, the department store. Lupi’s skills included signage and exhibition design in the early ’60s. This was followed by an 'intense collaboration' with Domus where he was design director. At Abitare he was director of graphics and later and then editorial director.
Among his other concurrent feats, he designed the image of the Milan Triennale and communications for IBM/Italy. Lupi has designed graphics and signage for large exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Papal Stables at the Quirinale in Rome, the National Gallery of Parma."
The seminar's [June 13-18, 1989] participants included Alberto Alessi Anghini, Emilio Ambasz, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Andrea Branzi, Achille Castiglioni, Francesco Dal Co, Peter Eisenman, Italo Lupi, Barbara Radice, Aldo Rossi, Joseph Rykwert, Ettore Sottsass and Aurelio Zanotta among others.