Le Harry Potter covers they speak Italian once again. The architect signs their latest version Michele De Lucchi, designer of some famous buildings and creator of the iconic Ptolemy of Artemis.
Harry Potter covers according to Michele De Lucchi
“At the international level, there was still no project of this type. The success of Harry Potter meets the Italian excellence of architecture and design in the world: Michele De Lucchi ”: this is how, from his Instagram page, Salani Editore announced the new Harry Potter covers a few weeks ago. Covers then unveiled on January 21, when the books thus (re) printed by Venetian graphics have come to the bookstore. How are the covers? It is the architect himself who tells it.
"In the Harry Potter cover design, with my Amdl Circle studio, we have included iconic elements of our architectural research to amplify the reader's imagination and Harry Potter iconography through hitherto unseen scenarios, placing the fantasy genre in dialogue with contemporary architecture. The resulting settings want to create a bridge between the collective imagination on Harry Potter and the imagination of each of us ". The light and font used change as the book changes. And the reader, between the first and seventh volumes, witnesses a crescendo. The same evolution that the characters of the saga live.
Who is Michele De Lucchi
Born in Ferrara in 1951, Michele De Lucchi is a designer and architect. After graduating in Florence he approaches radical design and founds the Cavart group. To mark his career, however, is the meeting with Ettore Sottsass, which introduces him to the world of industrial design. He collaborates with Olivetti designing Synthesis furniture, works for Compaq, Philips, Siemens and Vitra. In 1989 he won the contract for the design of the Deutsche Bank branches and won his first Compasso d'oro for Tolomeo lamp by Artemide (the second comes for Olivetti's Artjet 10 printer). Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan since 2008, in 2017 he became director of the magazine Domus.
The covers of Harry Potter before Michele De Lucchi
The books that JK Rowling wrote between 1997 and 2007 have been reprinted over and over again, and their covers have changed faces numerous times. There have been fantasy and other pop interpretations, but Michele De Lucchi is the first world-famous designer to be involved in the project. "What was missing was a graphic project created by an artist, an architect and designer who would represent us internationally, a 'excellence of made in Italy”Explained Mariagrazia Mazzitelli, Salani's editorial director. “We have identified the visionary Michele De Lucchi: there is something potterian in the character, in the studio he directs, just look at his website”. The first Italian cover of Harry Potter, dated 1998, was designed by Serena Raglietti. Who, recently, explained to JK Rowling the meaning of her strange illustrations: "Harry has a rat hat because it's one of the characteristics of my work, I like to put strange hats on my characters' heads, I do it every time. that I have the possibility ". A decidedly original interpretation, his. As original is the interpretation given by De Lucchi.
