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The Giracolore<\/i> is a spin-art machine pertaining to the new popular tradition of Italian toys:<\/p>\n

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Raffaele Cesano, the Giracolore’s creator, asked me to make a book with its history and practical uses.<\/p>\n
“The Journey into Color” (Il viaggio nel colore<\/i>) is now the first book I have fully designed, and perhaps even my biggest design work yet. Its copies now come with every device put on sale.<\/p>\n
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The client<\/h2>\n
Raffaele is a schoolteacher-turned-toymaker. He’s especially good at crafting traditional toys and games, like spinning tops, smol carousels, and wooden acrobats. He is fascinated with color in motion.<\/p>\n
Process<\/h2>\n
Raffaele first gave me a bunch of material: pictures, informational texts, and stories. Some things would be repeated across four different texts, but each one would have something useful of its own. I read them all and then wove them into a fluent narrative. Every now and then, I would meet Raffaele to refine the text together. I also took some disc pics myself.<\/p>\n
I learned a lot about book design while working on this. For example:<\/p>\n
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The placement of punctuation and line breaks affects legibility. A line break at the wrong syllable can make a word appear to be a different one.<\/li>\n
Consistency in punctuation colors and weights is a science of its own!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Outcome<\/h2>\n
I chose a 13×18 cm format for the book so it would fit perfectly into the Giracolore’s 13.5×19 cm box. Nothing is arbitrary here: the disc on the cover is the size of a real one. I made sure each spread had at least some color.<\/p>\n
The imprint page and its adjacent table of contents are stunning: the gradient title, the rare NB ligature, the Italian cockade (which looks like a Giracolore disc!), the frame…<\/p>\n
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The book begins with a short introduction to the Giracolore and proceeds with spin-art’s history. Notice the alignment of the words “bellezza” on the left page:<\/p>\n
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The book then delves into color psychology:<\/p>\n
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And culminates with stories metaphorically illustrated with the Giracolore. Here’s one of them, The Little Blonde Girl<\/i>, with the parallelism principle at work:<\/p>\n
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Some pages encourage to make one’s own disc and glue it in:<\/p>\n
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The book ends with an invitation to take a look at Raffaele’s other projects and to contact him:<\/p>\n
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The book is set in three styles of Apfel Grotesk<\/i>: Regular, Fett, and Brukt (for the “stick your disc here” label).<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n
The book is the best introduction to the Giracolore, vividly showing the device’s value for children, teachers, artists, storytellers, and therapists.<\/p>\n
Good design is never boring.<\/p>\n
The client’s review<\/h2>\n
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Robert has visually arranged The Journey into Color<\/i> with great success and has helped me introduce it to the public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Robert has various qualities: his youthful energy gave me confidence to express what I felt. I had fun letting him do his thing, letting him express and interpret my ideas. Everyone has the right to play the game they enjoy the most.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The result is what I wanted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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I initially hesitated to pay in advance, but during the course of the work, I saw Robert’s reliability firsthand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Enjoy the colors!<\/p>\n", "date_published": "2025-04-07T01:36:17+05:00", "date_modified": "2025-04-29T12:45:46+05:00", "tags": [ "art", "books", "design", "games", "hues", "illustrations", "national symbols", "packaging", "things", "typography", "undertakings" ], "author": { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" }, "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:36:17 +0500", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "135466", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": null, "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "126129", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/london-2023\/", "title": "London in May 2023", "content_html": "
First of all, the euphoric smell<\/a> is still there. I didn’t find it as common as in 2020 and before, but it does come from the Tube and it also came from a bus. May it stay.<\/p>\n
A beautiful window:<\/p>\n
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A beautiful lantern:<\/p>\n
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Greenery:<\/p>\n
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Plaques:<\/p>\n
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Other address lettering:<\/p>\n
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Soviet architecture:<\/p>\n
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A traffic light:<\/p>\n
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An outdoor table:<\/p>\n
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Doors:<\/p>\n
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A mighty entryway:<\/p>\n
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A lovely face:<\/p>\n
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Trees and bricks:<\/p>\n
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A brick wall:<\/p>\n
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The London Fire Brigade’s coat of arms reminds me of the Kiribati flag 🇰🇮:<\/p>\n
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Chinatown:<\/p>\n
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A gallery:<\/p>\n
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A patriotic flag display:<\/p>\n
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An ice cream van:<\/p>\n
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A charming car:<\/p>\n
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A square:<\/p>\n
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The London Eye:<\/p>\n
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Big Sister is watching:<\/p>\n
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A pharmacy swastika:<\/p>\n
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Wokeness at the Wellcome Collection:<\/p>\n
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My message:<\/p>\n
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The first words of one of my favorite poëms, Leisure, on a sticker:<\/p>\n
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Other city details:<\/p>\n
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Unlike Italy, there is a lot of Asian and Indian cuisine in London. Its spicy aromas are a delight.<\/p>\n
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Packaging at the supermarket:<\/p>\n
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Drinking from a coconut:<\/p>\n
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A water bottle:<\/p>\n
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Swedenborg’s Rules of Tremulation:<\/p>\n
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It’s a shame Selfridges doesn’t sell fridges.<\/p>\n", "date_published": "2024-03-03T03:49:25+05:00", "date_modified": "2024-10-04T18:41:57+05:00", "tags": [ "bricks", "buildings", "buses", "design", "doors", "drinks", "environment", "Europe", "flights", "food", "humor", "London", "national symbols", "packaging", "plaques", "poëms", "public spaces", "smells", "swastikas", "tongue", "travel", "typography", "wayfinding", "wit" ], "author": { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" }, "_date_published_rfc2822": "Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:49:25 +0500", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "126129", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": null, "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "121705", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/ekch-2023\/", "title": "Copenhagen airport in May 2023", "content_html": "
Flying in. Denmark is flat:<\/p>\n
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A plane. Notice the Scandinavian barcode:<\/p>\n
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Good-looking packaging:<\/p>\n
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Don’t burn books and flags.<\/p>\n
But don’t sanctify most of them, either.<\/p>\n", "date_published": "2023-07-03T11:58:34+05:00", "date_modified": "2024-09-26T23:06:05+05:00", "tags": [ "attitude", "books", "national symbols" ], "author": { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" }, "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:58:34 +0500", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "121163", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": null, "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "119858", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/genoa-jan-2023\/", "title": "Genoa in January 2023", "content_html": "
Piazza de Ferrari:<\/p>\n
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The Ancient Port:<\/p>\n
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Tiling:<\/p>\n
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A postbox:<\/p>\n
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Street corners:<\/p>\n
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A beautiful palace:<\/p>\n
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A lottery office:<\/p>\n
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Plaques:<\/p>\n
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The Genoese flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (England began flying it for easier trade):<\/p>\n
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Unlike heightwise stripes, widthwise stripes on flags don’t stop any hue from being seen when the wind blows.<\/p>\n
🇷🇺<\/p>\n", "date_published": "2023-03-30T20:35:14+05:00", "date_modified": "2024-09-28T13:39:25+05:00", "tags": [ "design", "national symbols" ], "author": { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" }, "_date_published_rfc2822": "Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:35:14 +0500", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "130989", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": null, "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "131532", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/bergamo-2021\/", "title": "Bergamo in August 2021", "content_html": "
A bricky side-street:<\/p>\n
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Attractive stones:<\/p>\n
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Elaborately decorated gates:<\/p>\n
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A manhole:<\/p>\n
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A logo taking good advantage of the arc:<\/p>\n
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Air Albania’s logo taking good advantage of its country’s flag 🇦🇱<\/p>\n
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Week 23<\/a> ←→ Week 25<\/a><\/p>\n
Thursday, June 11<\/h2>\n
The Burundian coat of arms is beautiful:<\/p>\n
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Friday, June 12<\/h2>\n
I decided to move some emails from one folder to another. Guess what? Mail can’t sync anymore.<\/p>\n
This bug was spotted back in January and it is yet to be fixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I might just move to OpenBSD at this point.<\/p>\n
Saturday, June 13<\/h2>\n
I find it funny how Bologna has an investigative group called Ponzi.<\/p>\n", "date_published": "2020-06-15T14:10:54+05:00", "date_modified": "2024-09-27T18:25:28+05:00", "tags": [ "Apple", "Bologna", "design", "my Telegram channel", "national symbols" ], "author": { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" }, "_date_published_rfc2822": "Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:10:54 +0500", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "122605", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": null, "og_images": [] } }, { "id": "130969", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/all\/monaco-flag\/", "title": "Monaco’s flag", "content_html": "
This is Monaco’s flag. It’s identical, except for in proportions, to Indonesia’s:
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But Monaco has an alternative flag and pattern (mostly used on licence plates), which reminds of its moneymaker the Casino, which would make Monaco instantly recognisable anywhere on Earth:<\/p>\n
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Monaco, why not make the latter the official flag?<\/p>\n", "date_published": "2019-07-12T18:04:28+05:00", "date_modified": "2025-05-24T12:09:55+05:00", "tags": [ "design", "Monaco", "national symbols", "Riviera" ], "author": { "name": "Robert", "url": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/", "avatar": "https:\/\/robertblinov.net\/blog\/pictures\/userpic\/userpic@2x.jpg?1739870896" }, "_date_published_rfc2822": "Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:04:28 +0500", "_rss_guid_is_permalink": "false", "_rss_guid": "130969", "_rss_enclosures": [], "_e2_data": { "is_favourite": false, "links_required": null, "og_images": [] } } ], "_e2_version": 4079, "_e2_ua_string": "Aegea 11.0 (v4079e)" }