Project
Marks, Symbols, Signs 2015—17
- Area
- Identity
- Year
- 2015-2017
- Credits
- Mimmo Manes (canefantasma)
- Main link
- Go to the website
Marks, Symbols, Signs gathers the marks designed by Mimmo Manes between 2015 and 2017. Twenty-four marks for different clients and occasions, presented together, white on black, each with its name and its year.
The collection opens with the words of Antonio Boggeri as recounted by Bruno Monguzzi. Swiss graphic design is perfect, but often with a useless perfection. The spider's web becomes useful when it catches the fly. Every mark in the collection comes out of that criterion. Sense first, then form. A mark works when it says something about the subject it stands for, not when it is merely well drawn.
There are monograms that fuse letters into a single mark, abstract symbols built on elementary geometry, typographic marks for addresses and places. Cut to the bone, made to last.
