Calado, Margarida, 1947-Marques, DianaSilva, Abel Alexandre Dourado 1984-2013-10-212013-10-212013http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9393Tese de mestrado, Desenho, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2013The emergence of these small graphic brackets dates back to medieval times, evidence that appears in Villard de Honnecourt album. Throughout history, many artists have used in a systematic way the notes in notebooks. These being generally small, usually devoided of responsibility for public presentation, are often associated with the extension of artistic thought. With this dissertation we seek to show that the current understanding of graphic notebook should not be dissociated from its historical tradition.Based on the historical legacy left by several authors of books graphics, artists like Villard de Honnecourt up to contemporary David Hockney and Urbansketchers, we address comprehensively the history of drawing on notebooks, serving as a foundation for creating a comprehensive overview of production and maintenance of these supports for drawing. Indispensable element in any artist luggage, notebook graphic presents itself as support for study that brings us closer, in a large sense, of the intentions of its authors. Exposing a timeline of these drawing brackets, we highlight the features that make this small object a mnemonic of immense artistic value and autobiographical. The matter of learning design through systematic repetition of the act of drawing is, nowadays, strictly related to the maintenance of notebooks graphics. The notebooks and their designations branched out in accordance with their purpose; among the most used, we find the sketchbook, travel journal, graphic diary, fieldbook and the artist’s book. The problem of this study also seeks to highlight the importance that the notebook has on learning graphic design and how to enable a constant creative renewal for artists and other creative people throughout their productive careers. Inserted as a theoretical-practical dissertation, the study is conducted simultaneously with the production of drawings in notebooks graphics format, divided into daily sketches and research drawingsporDesenhoCadernos de artistaCadernos de campoDiário graficoLivro de artistaDiários de viagemmaster thesis201277107