With Bruno Munari's circus in the mist you can read back and fourth within the book. You are situated in the mist and the forms become visible through tracing paper and circles through the pages. There’s a lot of room for the reader to build their own narrative especially in the way I first encountered the book in it's original Italian ( I cannot read Italian). Although even with the English translation once you have read through and understood the text there is a great deal of room for interpretation and play.
The book was designed for children and the possibility’s of the book as a play thing work well, encouraging an exploration of the functionally though touch and experience of the structure and the texture and weight of the pages.
The rational design thing that Bruno Munari brings to these books works so well because its counterbalanced with the absurd. This aids the books functionally to serve a purpose and gives these books objects he creates a life and illusion.
