From feelings of devaluation and marginalization come responses and reactions that make up what we might call queer resistance. It emerges, among other forms, through the re-signification and reclaiming of languages and meanings, many of which are expressed through images,…
Category: Editorial Design
Gesto e Memória: Bordado da Madeira
This archive-book, developed for the Project course, responds to the brief for a large-scale personal project. It documents and graphically explores Madeira embroidery through a visual essay on gesture and memory, both deeply present in the embroidery process.
Arquivos de Gestos
The starting point was the side view of the page edges of well-used sketchbooks, overflowing with textures and colors that naturally form a mark. Developed for Advanced Studies in Editorial Design and Typography, in response to a brief for a…
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
“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.