Editori Riuniti. Politica

Among 1977's new books, two new series dedicated to widespread fields: school and politics.

"To politics, and more specifically to the issues of institutions, parties, the relationship between political and economic power, the events of the last thirty years, we will dedicate a new series to be directed by Aniello Coppola". Coppola, a historic journalist from L'Unità (a newspaper on which Editori Riuniti also had a dedicated page in the early 1980s), had already written prefaces for some publications of Editori Riuniti.

"Among the first titles, a volume by comrade Ingrao on institutions and the Demochristian system of power of the sociologist Mattelart over multinationals and the mass media".

The series ends around 1982 with less than thirty books in the catalog. The success of the first few years, however, will give rise to another series of Editori Riuniti of a similar price range and format dedicated to relevant political and cultural problems and young people: "Interventi".

Two colors, black and bright red. Helvetica bold not only for all the texts on the cover of this series, but shared by all the other series designed by Pino Tovaglia for Editori Riuniti. With the exception of some volumes that explicitly required the presence of capitalized words, the titles are all set in lowercase.

Under the author's name, a geometric design consisting of four black and four red squares characterizes each volume by varying the position and rotation of each group of squares. The abstract figurative element is however in continuity with the previous Editori Riuniti series: the covers of the library of the workers' movement, for example, were identified by a large red square and a slightly rotated black one, a further evolution of the colored rhombus used for the "Nuova biblioteca di cultura" and other editions.