The last project of the first year drawing lab started at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. The 2013-14 exhibition was called “Design. The syndrome of influence”; after visiting the museum we were asked to choose
a room or an element that represented the idea of a designer: a creator of the italian style, a  destroyer
or a new-context exponent. My choice fell on Bruno Munari, represented in a room using geometrical shapes, stairs and rings, all hanging from the ceiling, with which the viewer could interact sitting, swinging, climbing
or doing whatever he preferred. That summerized Munari’s design process and final products. Yet my attention focused on his graphic works known as “negative-positive”.

The resulting poster analyzed the use of colours and shapes in Munari’s work, creating an interactive paper made of different layers. The first one is a white frame with a transparent film that protects the inside.
Two white squares have been applied on this layer: according to Munari’s thoughts they are the creators
of form, all colours generate from white and black. The  three layers below are printed on different transparent sheets: one with blue shapes on it, another with the yellow counterpart and the last with a pattern of red dots. As you can see on the image on the right if the red layer is above the others the final perception is that
of a purple and orange  picture; if the red layer is put in the middle of the two colours one primary interacts
with its complementary (blue and orange, yellow and purple). Yet if seen really close, blue and yellow
can still be separated from the red texture.

This was an experiment about the interactions of primary colours such as described by Bauhaus teachers Johannes Itten and Paul Klee, both main figures in the panorama surrounding Munari’s work.