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What this is
Parolibre is a reinterpretation of Italian Futurism as a web experience. The eleven theses of F. T. Marinetti’s manifesto ran in Le Figaro on 20 February 1909 under the title Le Futurisme. This site sets eight of them beside readings from 2026 and performs speed with kinetic typography instead of depicting it. A closing section, Il sistema, gathers the movement’s real design inventions.
Sources
- F. T. Marinetti, Manifeste initial du Futurisme, Le Figaro, 20 February 1909. Public domain. Quotations here are fresh translations from the Italian and French texts.
- F. T. Marinetti, Manifesto tecnico della letteratura futurista, 1912: destruction of syntax, imagination without strings, words in freedom.
- F. T. Marinetti, Zang Tumb Tuuum, 1912–1914: the siege of Adrianople wired home as onomatopoeic sound, source of the word field.
- F. T. Marinetti, Distruzione della sintassi – Immaginazione senza fili – Parole in libertà, 1913, source of the typographic-revolution quotation.
- Fortunato Depero & Enrico Prampolini circle, Depero futurista 1913–1927 (“the Bolted Book”, 1927): the rivets in this footer.
- Antonio Sant’Elia, Città Nuova drawings and the 1914 Futurist architecture manifesto, referenced in spirit by every sharp corner here.
- Umberto Boccioni, “lines of force” (linee di forza): the drawn polylines between thesis plates.
Method
The whole experience is one HTML file, one stylesheet and one engine script, with no framework and no build step. A single animation loop reads scroll velocity once per frame and drives everything that moves: the skew of the masthead letters, the tempo of the marquee bands, the km/h gauge in the corner, and the density of the speed lines crossing the screen. The words-in-freedom field runs its own pointer-repulsion physics, and the polylines draw themselves when they enter the viewport.
If your system requests reduced motion, all of it stops and the page still reads like a poster.
Type
Anton for display (a digital descendant of condensed poster grotesks), Archivo for reading, Space Mono for instruments and marginalia. All served from Google Fonts.
Legal
This site collects nothing: no cookies, no analytics, no forms, no tracking. Manifesto quotations come from public-domain texts published in 1909 through 1914. Built by Liberty Design Studio, Buenos Aires, 2026.