O design gráfico e a representação da morte: o livro ilustrado como ferramenta de diálogo

Abstract

There are some themes inherent of existence of living beings, such as finitude of life and the inevitable coming of death, which are often not topics of discussion between people because they are considered inadequate or even strongly repulsed and for this reason are left out of people’s mind. Therefore, it is necessary to understand why this fact happens and study how this process of losing someone important affects their loved ones, especially the children, personas of this study, whose purpose is to suggest the insertion of design in this process in form of a graphic support that helps the little ones better understand the situation they are in and better understand how to deal with their feelings. In order to do so, it was necessary to carry out a transdisciplinary study on areas outside the scope of design, such as principles of child psychology, children's literature and, more related to this course, composites principles of the picture book, which will be the proposal of the final support, besides perform similar analysis on children's picture books, so that from this point on, guidelines could be drawn for the project to develop in the best possible way. In the next phase, the project was concerned with developing a narrative that met what was proposed in the first phase, in addition to creating coherent characters and elaborating storyboards for the design of the finished book.