AIAP Edizioni has published the Guide to the Fundsof AIAPCDPG. The book summarises the heritage of the Historical Archive and the Graphic Design Library. The volume is available in the AIAP Online Library.
A Guide to the Funds. AIAP CDPG Summary, edited by Sonia Chianchiano and Lorenzo Grazzani, with an introductory essay by Francesco E. Guida, presents the 120 funds surveyed and preserved at the Graphic Design Documentation Centre of AIAP, the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design. A valuable tool for learning about a unique cultural and collective heritage, one of the richest and most varied collections in the Italian panorama and beyond, in which thousands of documents and original materials relating to the history of graphic design are preserved.
The volume, in Italian and English, returns, in a synthetic but direct and enjoyable form, the wealth of collections and materials preserved by AIAP CDPG, which constitute an opportunity for research, studies, interpretations, and a possibility of projectuality and valorisation.
Well-known and lesser-known names of graphic design at an Italian and international level: from Massimo Vignelli to Bob Noorda, from Daniele Turchi to Massimo Dolcini, and then Giancarlo Iliprandi, Paul Rand, Lucille Tenazas, Claudia Morgagni, Anita Klinz, Franco and Jeanne Grignani and many, many others.
This publication has been issued as one of the actions planned as part of the project entitled “Piattaforma digitale di valorizzazione del Centro di Documentazione sul Progetto Grafico” (Digital Platform for the Enhancement of the Graphic Design Documentation Centre) and funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU within the framework of the PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) in accordance with Directorial Decree No. 385 dated 19/10/2022 – Sub-investment 3.3.2 – Support to cultural and creative sectors for innovation and digital transition. Project Ref. No. Tocc0001515, COR 15905620, CUP C87J23000580008.
