Comunicação visual no livro ilustrado: palavra, imagem e design contando histórias.

Abstract

This research aims to investigate visual communication in picturebooks and the text-image relation mediated by the design. Therefore the collection of the FNLIJ, Brazilian version of International Board on Books for Young People – IBBY, specifically the Child category was selected. In order to understand the object and identify the participation of graphic design in it, a panoramic historical-cultural study of the children's book in Brazil was carried out, emphasizing its thematic, graphic conceptions, authors, illustrators and visual narrative. This study also comprises a selection and discussion about the child book classifications, the need to foment for reading images, and the aspects of design in the visual organization of the information. The selected books were analyzed syntactically and semantically to better observe the articulations between the visual and verbal narratives. The syntactic analysis followed Gestalt theories as a guide, observing forms, colors, typography and composition. The semantic analysis was conducted through semiotics theories to identify icons, indexes and their symbologies. The methodology was an adaptation of the steps proposed by the Feldman Method of Reading Images redirecting to the Picturebook with application of the mentioned theories. As a result, this research highlights the diversity of composition of the visual narrative and the experimentation that the design makes possible to the book. Moreover, it seeks to contribute to the growth of design studies in children's books, to stimulate the discussion about reading images and for the practices of communication projects for children.