The reading challenge experience of <i>Coleção Particular</i>: the commercial strategy of a (il)legibility
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editorial design, graphic analysis, collectionism, reading, consumptionAbstract
This article seeks to understand how visual and graphic choices can contribute to the reading experience and, still, attend to the publishers' marketing interests. For so, we analyzed three titles of Coleção Particular (or “Private Collection”), released by Cosac Naify, a Brazilian publishing house. In these books, some unusual graphic resources were used to challenge and instigate the readers. For so, we can say that they get close to the concept of “artist's book”. Each book analyzed in this article establishes conceptual relations with the narratives through the materials, the graphic finishing and their expressive forms. Through the collection's title and the materiality of the books, the publishers had applied the concepts of collectionism and singularity as a marketing strategy, to distinguish their editorial products.Downloads
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2014-06-15
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