book by Reto Hänny,
publisher
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2020
Reportage in Iseo Serrature seen through the lens of one of the greatest
Italian photojournalists:
Uliano Lucas.
A limited edition, only 200 signed copies in four languages typeset in Bauer-Bodoni, thread sewn with coloured edge. A book that is as precious as the friendship, for the text is a story by Reto Hänny, a Swiss writer friend. Designed, illustrated and produced entirely by Humm Design, Frühling was awarded the distinction of typographic excellence and chosen for the Annual Type Directors’ Club 44th New York Exhibition in 1997.
Dieter Menz Aquarelle.
An artistic book designed with my friend the writer Reto Hänny for Swiss artist Dieter Menz, who paints watercolours based on sorrow.
’Blooms Schatten’ book by Reto Hänny, publisher
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2014
We used printing as creative architecture, as if the project regarded the urban planning of an image, a city made of letters, type and pleasant spaces, harmoniously balanced with pictures on which all could pause to breathe, and adopting the light, transparent and functional criteria of the great work by Renzo Piano.
Aldo Rossi
Two little cult books among young architects but I have also heard from his practice that the master was very pleased with them. The first Un legno geniale contains Aldo Rossi’s thought on crafts and furniture
and their relationship with architecture. As well as drawings and photographs of furniture he designed for Molteni&C, it includes a large drawing by the great master.
The second is a “Notebook’, a ’souvenir’ of his 1990 New York exhibition in the Unifor premises. It contains a text, photographs of his office, personal drawings and the works on show.
The ’Cinque Piazze per Milano’ national design competition and the ’Piazze 2001’ international design competition. The material shown in this book represents a complex array of thoughts on the ’piazza’, the most typical and distinctive urban space in Italian social tradition.