Per vederci chiaro – Gli occhiali e l'inventore inesistente (“Seeing clearly – Glasses and the non-existent inventor”) is an essay published by Nomos Edizioni. It investigates the origins of one of the most common objects in everyday life: glasses. The author, Renzo Dionigi, reconstructs the history of an invention that responded to a need for social and economic progress, revealing its multiple and sometimes controversial origins.

From the history of reading to the first lenses, from frames to the lexicography of the term “eyeglass”, the volume spans centuries of inventions, disputes and symbolic representations. With a preface by Luciano Perondi and Raimonda Riccini , the theme of legibility is intertwined with that of reading tools, while engravings and prints from 1400 to 1700 bring to light what was invisible or forgotten, between utility, art and memory.

The graphic design focuses on a typographic composition rich in detail and peculiarities, enhanced by the characteristics of the Sorella font – designed by Luis Castellón and published by CAST – which recalls the writing of the 18th-century calligrapher Angela Baroni. Scotus Sans, designed by Giulio Galli, Riccardo Olocco and Luciano Perondi, is used for footnotes and a few other minor details.

The Municipality of Forlì has undertaken the cataloging of 300 photographic plates selected from the prestigious Edgardo Zoli Archive. This publication, the first volume in the ArchiviForlivesi series, presents 82 stunning images from that digitized collection. Introduced by three specialist essays by Marino Mambelli, Elisa Mengoli, and Fabrizio Monti, the book offers—for the first time—an in-depth look at the close relationship between the city, the photographer, and his renowned archive.

Edgardo Zoli was the official reporter of all local ceremonies during the Fascist regime, a fashionable portraitist, and a trusted reference for many companies. His work, deeply rooted in the economic and social life of the 1930s, provides a vivid visual narrative of Forlì’s productive landscape, captured through trade fairs, product catalogs, and carefully staged scenes.

This volume marks the start of a wider cultural project and serves as the public-facing element of an initiative that, through its extraordinary photographic material, offers a fresh and compelling perspective on Forlì’s industrial past.

Published by Nomos Edizioni.

Match Point (full title: Match Point. Sfide, campioni e momenti che hanno cambiato lo sport, in English: “Match Point. Challenges, champions and moments that changed sports”) was published in Italy by Nomos Edizioni. Author Dario Ricci collected “thirty stories of competitive spirit in their epic dimension, thirty moments that have changed sports history thanks to the incredible performances of great champions and new talents.”

On 288 pages, 40 athletes are represented in 22 sports disciplines which are illustrated with artwork by Daniele Simonelli plus a set of tiny pictograms: basketball, fencing, football, rugby, tennis, volleyball, golf, equestrian, swimming, athletics, marathon, car racing, obstacle course, handbike, gymnastics, road cycling, chess, skiing, sailing, motorcycling, long jump, and boxing.

What did it mean to wear a pearl? Or having a diamond ring?

Through the analysis of almost one hundred selected masterpieces in the Uffizi Galleries' collection, we discover how jewellery plays an important role in iconography, or simply enriches the moral description of the character. Other times, on the other hand, the jewel, by showing an execution that can be traced back to a precise place and environment, allows us to understand the cultural inclinations of a character or to place them geographically. Author Silvia Malaguzzi guides the reader to discover the language of jewellery thanks to a very rich harvest of images and the beauty of the detailed reproductions of many of the most famous works in the history of art.

Diamanti Rubini e Smeraldi (“Diamonds Rubies and Emeralds”) is published in Italian by Nomos Edizioni.

Giù nel blu. Dalla superficie agli abissi: viaggio sottomarino sfogliabile (Down in the blue. From the surface to the depths: a browsable submarine journey) is an illustrated book on the underwater world. Published by the Italian publisher Nomos, the book is written by Gianumberto Accinelli and illustrated by Giulia Zaffaroni.

The book is leafed through vertically and this action together with a metric scale and the color of the pages, gradually darker, gives the readers the idea of descending into the depths, encountering many animals especially in the first pages, leaving room for emptiness and darkness as you go further down, to the depths of the ocean.

The editor also published a sequel called Su nel blu (Up in the blue) which applies the same idea with a different navigation direction: you'll go from the ground up to the space.

Table of contents is organized as a preview of the descent into the sea

Some animal have a small presentation text

The final animal index

The cover of the sequel: Su nel Blu (Up in the blue)

Una mela al giorno (“an apple a day”) is an illustrated anthology about proverbs and expressions in four different languages (Italian, English, Spanish and French) that often say the same things in different ways, a small guide for travelers and readers fascinated by other cultures and for those who are always looking for an expression that “fits perfectly”.

Published by Nomos Edizioni, the book was written by Michela Tartaglia and illustrated by Daniele Simonelli. Design by Marianna Rossi, using Matrix and Proxima Nova.

114 pages, 104 proverbs, 66 illustrations
15×19cm

Detail of the lettering on the cover

The Terrace of the Map Room in the Uffizi Gallery is an environment whose murals represent the geographical maps of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, painted in 1588 to 1589 by Ludovico Buti and Stefano Bonsignori, while the wooden ceiling was decorated with paintings by Jacopo Zucchi that were transported from the Palazzo Florence in Rome during 1588 at the behest of Ferdinando I.

This volume, published at the end of the restoration that brought to light the qualities of style and technical peculiarities, documents the genesis and reasons for the commissioning of the room, its collecting history and the events that have marked it over the centuries, to finally arrive at the current perspectives.

In over 370 images (the result of an ad hoc photographic campaign) and with the multi-disciplinary contribution of 30 authors, not only the historical and artistic events of the environment are presented but also the analytical documentation of all the restoration works that have allowed to return the Terrazzo to the public in all its original splendor.

Published in both Italian and English by Nomos Edizioni, this precious volume pairs Sole Sans with Rialto dF, recalling the italian renaissance with dropcaps at the beginnings of the chapters. On the cover, type is playing with the wall paintings creating different layers.

Cover

Front and back cover

Cover of Italian and English edition

Italian and English spines

Table of contents

Opening pages

Restoration section double page

Opening page detail

Restoration section detail

The typographical cover of the book displays many faces in order to recall Bauhaus typography

A precise and previously unpublished archival research collects and reveals the biographical events of all the “girls” of the Bauhaus, the Bauhausmädels. Design historian Anty Pansera involves the reader by transporting them to the fascinating life inside the school where male and female students lived together with masters of the caliber of Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Kandinskij, Klee, and free time was shared between parties, readings, political discussions, love stories, exhibitions, artistic performances, music (Bauhaus had its own orchestra), sports; in the background, of course, the tragic rise of Nazism which led to the closure of the academy, the prohibition of practicing for artists, and which forced many of the women (more than 14% were of Jewish origin) to flee and exile, when not to death in a concentration camp.

Published by Nomos Edizioni in Italian, the book shows unpublished archive photos of the school and collects in an extensive infographic some data relating to the Bauhausmädels, while on the back cover and in the flaps there is a visual representation of when our protagonists took part in the life of the school.

The infographic on the flap and inside cover

Chapter openings

Cover design and chapter opening pages for Yogurtista, a book with recipes by Virginia Repetto (who shot the photos in the book), entirely devoted to yoghurt as main ingredient. Published in Italian by Nomos Edizioni.

Photos by Andrea Del Cotto.