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.
Category: Course Projects and Assignments
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.
The Design Issue
An experimental editorial publication for Advanced Studies in Editorial Design and Typography, starting from the relationship between typography, discourse and design. It explores typography’s ability to act not only as a vehicle for content but as a visual, expressive and…
All For You
All For You grew out of a personal interest in cataloging packaging, from a fascination with its shapes, graphics and materials. This close observation reveals similar strategies in how packaging communicates with consumers, regardless of brand or product category.
De Mim Para Ti
De Mim Para Ti (From Me to You) is a silent narrative telling a story about how people relate through the objects they share. With a color assigned to each character, a timeline unfolds in which objects pass from generation…
Backstage
Backstage is a serif typeface in the Garalde tradition, developed from the observation and reinterpretation of Garamond. While it keeps the legibility, proportion and elegance associated with Renaissance models, its design introduces a more vertical structure, more defined serifs and…
The Shape of Loss – An illustrated story about grief
The project turned three personal objects into an illustrated narrative, developed for Illustration Contexts and Practices. From these objects I explored grief and ancestry, setting the story in Japan — where part of my family comes from — as the…