mauro pinheiro

Discusses the role of designers and users in the authorship of messages and products. It highlights three moments in design history, in which different notions of authorship are perceived: the period related to the modernist design and the International Style; the first years of the 90’s, with the post-modern visual rhetoric; the beginning of the XXI century, with the information revolution and Web 2.0. As a conclusion, considering the presence of ubiquitous computing in the future, addresses some topics that update the discussion about authorship, emphasizing the importance of deepening the discussions about communication processes in the design field.