Between 1926 and 1936, Fortunato Depero produced around a hundred advertising graphics for Campari - geometric, mechanical, often almost abstract, Italian Futurism with a playful streak. He designed the Campari Soda bottle, unchanged since 1932, along with the posters. The cover of this notebook takes one of those pieces - Presi il Bitter Campari fra le nuvole, I took the Campari Bitter in the clouds - redrawn front and back by the type studio Cabaret Typographie, in the Futurist palette of red, gold, blue and pink. It belongs to Bonvini's Quaderni d'Autore: a series of notebooks made with artists from Bonvini's broader cultural programme of exhibitions, residencies and publications. The spine is Singer-stitched - the machine-sewn seam that holds the signatures and lets the book lie flat - and the paper inside is made in Italy from post-consumer recycled stock, blank for whatever follows.
