Material Archive (2026) – Page 5

Sem Algumas

Sem Algumas (“Without Some”) is a book investigating the invisibility of women’s work in Portuguese design — work that existed but was never signed, archived or cited.

“Página Inicial” (Home Page) proposes a reading of Google Doodles as small visual interruptions of an everyday interface. The project moves these images from screen to book, turning a digital, ephemeral and functional experience into a physical, sequential and interactive…

HUNT The Russian Taiga

The brief called for a publication that does not rely on text to explore a theme in a subversive way. The starting theme is the world’s largest boreal forest, in Siberia, Russia.

Little Red Riding Hood: A Call for Heresy in Book Design

Developed in parallel with the Methodologies course, theoretical research was a fundamental part of the graphic creation. The object explores ways to promote active, critical reading by subverting the norms of editorial design.

Formas Induzidas: um herbário de cecídias

The project is a book created from the plant gall (cecidia) herbarium of the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto, investigating the herbarium as a scientific archive and epistemological device.

Towards a Forensic Atlas for Threshold Territories

This research proposes alternative representations of the U-1277 submarine wreck, scuttled by its own crew off Leixões in 1945, through graphic and editorial design. Drawing on sonar imagery, bathymetry and visual records, it constructs a speculative cartographic system that opens…

Apenas um Fruto Seco

A walnut falls asleep in its room after studying and, through the smoke of incense, enters a dream in which it becomes a cyclist in the Tour de France.

Diário

This project and specimen presents a revival of an original alphabet, drawn from a historical source: a variable typeface for text setting with a complete character set.

IVORY

A visual editorial object exploring the relationship between teeth and human experience, from clinical care to aesthetic and cultural expression — how teeth and smiles go beyond biological function to become symbols of identity, fashion, art and emotion.

Yves Typeface

Yves is a variable serif typeface developed collaboratively in the Type Design course, with the aim of creating a contemporary digital font that preserves the visual identity of its historical source while meeting today’s editorial standards of legibility and versatility.