Ukrainian FindingsAnastasiia Zavalniuk Ukrainian Findings is a retrospective of 20th-century Ukrainian graphic art, featuring works by prominent artists who worked in styles such as Ukrainian Baroque, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Constructivism, Modernism, and Brutalism. The exhibition highlights unique examples of the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet, particularly those that have remained unchanged since the reform of Peter… Continue reading Ukrainian Findings
Category: Course Projects and Assignments
Figurado in the Figurative Sense
Figurado no sentido figuradoAna Leite The history of Figurado ceramics catches a ride with the Earth’s continuous movement. On the potter’s wheel, this earth spins, and in the trance of this rotation, as the hands and clay get to know each other, we see a reflection of what we were and what we are, converging… Continue reading Figurado in the Figurative Sense
From Silence to Prominence
From Silence to ProminenceAna Pimenta For the Project Curricular Unit, students were asked to create a free object with a self-proposed theme. “From Silence to Prominence”, started from an interview given by NPR Music entitled “Nine Women In The Room: A Music Writers Roundtable”, I became curious about the journey of female music journalism and… Continue reading From Silence to Prominence
Schron Poltawski
Schron Poltawski is typeface revival designed by Beatriz Fernandes, Joana Teixeira, and Margarida Silva, for the Type Design course in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Pedro Amado. For the second and final group assignment, students in the Type Design course must research and design a revival of a text typeface. This typeface was also… Continue reading Schron Poltawski
Saint John
Leonor Aguiar “São João” (Saint John popular festivity) narrative sequence, developed for CPI in 2022, under Prof. Rui Vitorino Santos and Prof. Júlio Dolbeth. For the Contexts and Practices of Illustration (CPI) course’s first assignment, students are prompted to create a mood board, followed by a 5–7 image-based narrative sequence by reflecting on issues related… Continue reading Saint John
The traveler
Cíntia Funchal “O Viajante” (The traveler) fanzine, developed for CPI in 2022, under Prof. Rui Vitorino Santos. For the Contexts and Practices of Illustration (CPI) course’s second assignment, students are prompted to create a narrative by analyzing three previously selected images or objects. When describing, narrative relationships such as the personal emotional connection, symbolic or… Continue reading The traveler
Promotional Brochure
Promotional Brochure, designed by João Aveiro, for the Advanced Studies in Editorial Design and Typography course during 2022, under Prof. António Modesto Students were asked to choose and analyze a work by a designer. This designer, in his work, should not comply with the invisibility rules of Beatrice Warde’s article, crystal goblet. After analyzing the… Continue reading Promotional Brochure
Industria Neue Typeface
Industria Neue digital typeface revival developed by Inês Venâncio, Raquel Clemente, Sara Guerra under the supervision of Professor Pedro Amado, within the Typeface Design course, in the academic year 2021-22. Industria Neue appears as an updated version of the “Industria” font designed by Hermann Zehnpfundt and launched by Emil Gursch’s Foundry in 1910. There are… Continue reading Industria Neue Typeface
Promotion Poster
Promotional poster for the MDGPE, printed on paper, bilingual (Portuguese and English), developed by Catarina Santos Costa Ferreira for the course Advanced Studies in Editorial Design and Typography, under Professor António Modesto in November 2022. The objective was to solve a graphic and editorial design problem, emphasizing typographic composition expressively, appealing to its compelling yet… Continue reading Promotion Poster
Design Network
Information visualization poster work developed in the 2021-22 course of Graphic Design and Infographics, in partnership with the Design Observatory, by Maria Campos Lourenço, Catarina Monteiro and Lia Sá, and under the supervision of Professor Marta Fernandes. In developing this project, it was possible to translate a large amount of data into rigorous and significantly… Continue reading Design Network