Kósmos, um resgate para a história do design gráfico brasileiro

Abstract

In Brazil, the design professional field denies its past and so, denies its history. Thus, the design s production before the configuration of design education in this country is unknown by designers and students. This research intended to broach the origins of Brazilian graphic design by doing a history recovery and presenting a periodic like an example of what had been done at graphic design s field in Brazil before the use of the name designer by these professionals. The periodic chosen was Kósmos magazine, the one of the magazines known as illustrated magazines and that were publicated in Rio de Janeiro at the first decade of the twentieth century. It was publicated between 1904 and 1909. We attempted to analyze the graphic solutions used by the magazine chosen in order to improve systematic knowledge in design s academic and professionals fields.