Editorial Design for Memoirs and Autobiographies 50th Anniversary Edition
A revolution book that refuses monumentality.
This project celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 25 April Revolution through a series of memoirs and autobiographies. The design captures the historical significance of the event while presenting the stories in a refined, contemporary editorial format.
Insights
- The main point is that this 50th-anniversary project avoids a monumental tribute and instead uses a close, portable, delicate format to match the intimate first-person material.
- The book is 220 pages, sized 110 × 180 mm, printed by Orgal in a limited run of 200 copies, making it feel more like a keepsake than a conventional commemorative publication.
- The content is built from three interwoven streams: participants’ texts from a two-year experimental writing program at Braga Senior Academy, photographs from their family archives, and illustrations drawn by their grandchildren.
- The project has no single author credit; the contributors are listed collectively as “Vários” / “Multiple,” reinforcing the collaborative, shared-memory structure of the book.
- Macedo Cannatà’s own framing is explicit: the object should support “an intimate and familiar encounter,” aligning the editorial design with the personal stories rather than imposing a grand historical tone.
