Bruta revives Blockschrift, a German grotesque released in 1897 by the Genzsch & Heyse foundry, marked by monolinear strokes and low contrast. From this reference, the project introduces an authorial component tied to the materiality of concrete, cement and raw…
Tag: 2026
Installations
Installations is a biannual magazine devoted to installation art in the contemporary scene, aimed at artists, curators and anyone interested in art and visual culture.
Reescreve a Tradição Rejeita a Conversão
The campaign “Rewrite Tradition, Reject Conversion” turns research on SOCE (sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts) into a visual response aimed at both queer and Catholic communities, seeking to raise awareness in both without gratuitous provocation.
A Imagem e Não-Imagem da Censura Queer
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,…
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.
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.
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…