As a member of the armed Italian resistance, 15-year-old Germano was arrested by the Germans and deported to the Mauthausen camp in Austria. His values are directed towards one ethical purpose: ‘Building a society.’ Germano married a British architect and moved to London in 1950, where he worked as an art director/ designer and consultant to cultural institutions and publishers. He spent some time working in France, then went back to England in 1960 to work as an art director for Penguin Books until 1972, redesigning a whole series of paperbacks. He worked for Time- Life, Rizzoli, Olivetti and the National Film Institute. In 1972, Facetti went back to Italy and was an art director for Fabbri, publishers of children’s books. He lectured graphic design at the Bath Academy of Art, Manchester Polytechnic, London College of Printing, the Grafiska Institut Stockholm and Yale University. In 1999 he was given an exhibition of 100 covers of his Penguin books at the Galleria Aiap in Milan.