DOI: 10.17151/kepes.2023.20.27.7
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Naranjo Huera, V. L., y Lozano Castro, R. I. (2023). Techno-popular productions and socio-visual hegemony in commercial graphics from Cotopaxi (Ecuador) and Tampico (Mexico). Kepes, 20(27), 171–201. https://doi.org/10.17151/kepes.2023.20.27.7

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Vilma Lucía Naranjo Huera
Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi
vilma.naranjo@utc.edu.ec
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3506-7021
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Rebeca Isadora Lozano Castro
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
rilozano@docentes.uat.edu.mx
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4396-5833
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Abstract

In the popular commerce neighborhoods in the province of Cotopaxi (Ecuador) as well as in other Latin American contexts such as Tampico (Mexico), small businesses are promoted with graphics or posters placed on the facades of their stores. The objective of this work is to discuss the characteristics of popular designs that identify these small businesses from the perspective of the critical component of other South American designs, and the theoretical debate about popular culture understood as subaltern culture. The comparative analysis carried out between identification graphics of Cotopaxi and Tampico allows examining how small merchants update their posters by accommodating graphic editing technological tools while moving away from the folklore of manual labeling. As a result of this research, a reflection on techno-popular design is established which, unlike hegemonic graphics, creates and installs commercial graphics labeled as technological billboards, a product of the urban-rural culture of Cotopaxi, and it is contrasted with the designs that were colonized by the hegemonic American identity in Tampico. Finally, this work makes it possible to establish a bridge between other designs and what is designed from the values of popular culture, and it concludes that the recognition of the new popular graphics as part of the design is productive insofar as it allows one to reflect on the visualities designed in the neighborhood, for the neighborhood.

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