Assembling magazines. Conceptualization of periodical publications

Abstract

It is common to understand periodical publications that we observe daily as structured products, linear, completed, and most of the time, with disciplinary theme. In contrast to this understanding, this paper provides an overview of those magazines arising around the 70’s, which energize and, to some point, dynamite these concessions that we naturally attach to this media: the assembled magazines. Publications which have served as creative alternatives to commercial publishing regulations, and involve a change in reading intention and disposition, that become as a conceptual and emotional legibility. Starting with a brief history of the dialectic events between art and design, I will contextualize the shaping and emergence of these magazines, to decompose them, formal and structurally, and in their contents, to finish with the presentation of some examples of such publications.