Architecture without Architects – An Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture was a book published by Bernard Rudofsky in 1964, in which he used the term vernacular architecture for the first time: “For want of a generic label we shall call it…
Tag: 2024
Saber de cor
Talking about color is like talking about saudade, the universe or sensitivity. Color goes beyond the visual phenomenon: it creates worlds and emotions, and it is essential for designers.
Sacred and Terrible Air
A self-proposed project for the Project course, in which the Estonian novel Püha ja õudne lõhn (Sacred and Terrible Air), written by Robert Kurvitz, was repaginated and re-edited.
Whispers of the past_
As exercise 2 of the Project curricular unit, during the second semester, we were asked to create an editorial artifact. As the original brief stated, this was an open assignment, with no restrictions on theme, size, materials (…), these details…
Fritura: Tipo de letra e espécime
Fritura is a variable, linear geometric sans serif typeface developed in the Type Design curricular unit. Its design arose from an attempt to revive the Tia Lira typeface by Manuel Pereira da Silva (2004), as part of the brief, while…
Aperiodica: Tipo de letra e espécime
Aperiodica is a transitional serif typeface born from a proposal first presented in the first project of the Type Design curricular unit. Despite its traditional roots, the typeface was created with editorial design in mind — headlines of periodicals, print…
Nervios
Nerves examines patterns and visual trends, and develops the graphic analysis of a selection of leaves that are in our daily lives, that may be invisible but that enclose a world of magic and unique beauty.
Reinventar a impressão analógica
This project uses letterpress printing with movable type as a way of exploring and adapting the technological means needed to carry out the technique, turning them into practical and accessible instruments in an academic context while ensuring print quality.
Workshop Print Preview XI | ‘Serigrafia Fotomecânica’
These posters stem from the learning and experimentation of the screen-printing workshop organized for MDGPE students, with the aim of acquiring skills in photomechanical printing processes that can be reproduced in editorial objects.
Circles of time / A archive of rings
For the Project curricular unit, students were asked to create a free object on a theme of their own choosing. The theme I proposed was an archive of rings, which have fascinated me since childhood.