The CCC project explores how editorial design shapes the perception of visual content, showing how format, layout, and narrative structure can redefine or strengthen the meaning of images.
Through three volumes, we reorganized photographic projects by master’s students from the photography course with Luca Capuano and the editorial design course with Mauro Bubbico. One goal is to highlight the link between form and meaning, stressing the impact of design choices on visual interpretation.
The work focuses on Catania, examined through its vernacular architecture, housing practices, and everyday objects. Photography serves as a critical tool to capture social and urban layers.
The volumes tell the same stories with different layouts and sequences, offering new ways to read them. Inspired by Koolhaas’s S,M,L,XL, we explore scale and perception in editorial design.
The project stresses that design is never neutral, but guides reading and enhances the value of images. Its aim is to raise critical awareness of editorial design as a meaning-making device, emphasizing the role of images and the impact of graphic design in building an effective and coherent visual narrative.
