Abstract

BELO, Diego Rodrigues. O livro tem volume?. RILP [online]. 2020, vol.37, pp.141-155.  Epub Mar 21, 2021. ISSN 2182-4452.  https://doi.org/10.31492/2184-2043.rilp2020.37/pp.141-155.

A fragment of silence that keeps the hands and eyes busy. The printed book not only invites you to read quietly but also beckons a low noise environment. An intimate activity, it requires concentration and dedication from the reader. The graphic project can be seen as one which evokes thought, favoring the circulation of ideas and serving as an instrument for the organization, consolidation and dissemination of knowledge. Cumulative, irreversible, successive and chronological, the knowledge configured in print is also due to a certain reverence and authority that we confer on it. It is in the communion generated by the act of reading that the book can be taken as a decisive means in the exercise of fostering perceptual and critical thinking abilities. And from this increasingly rare phenomenon in contemporary society - silence - I invoke Didi-Huberman to address the complex notion of “symptom”, whether in its visual configurations or in its temporalities. I propose an idea of silence as a potential symptom of the book, stimulating its visuality by means of a typographic sign - the “inquiry comma”. I aim to examine the uneasiness caused by the “silence of the book” in relation to the ability of graphic design projects to build convenient spaces that activate human imagination and action.

Keywords : book design; culture; graphic design; silence; symptom.

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