For Graphic Design and Infographics, students were asked to create an infographic about an aromatic plant in the Serralves Garden, communicating botanical information in a visually engaging and scientifically rigorous way.
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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…
O espaço do silêncio
This work analyzes the importance of empty space in editorial design, particularly in communicating landscape architecture projects, taking the Parque da Alameda de Cartes (PAC) as a case study.
Pictograms as universal communication tools in drug administration: A graphic design project to improve health literacy
This project proposes a modular system of pictograms to improve health literacy in medicine administration. Misinterpretation of instructions causes severe health risks, especially among vulnerable groups such as illiterate people, the elderly, and individuals with cognitive difficulties.
IJUP 2025
Celebrating a Growing, Engaged Academic Community in the 18th edition of IJUP – Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto —the annual Young Researchers Meeting of the University of Porto. This year the event counted with the participation of dozens of students from FBAUP, from the MDIP, MIEI, MDI and especially from the MDGPE… Continue reading IJUP 2025
Reinventing academic access
Reinventing academic access: design, digitalization, and dialogue at U. Porto Press and in the journal Espaço Público/Public SpaceFrancisca Fradinho Alves The digital era has profoundly transformed the field of academic publishing. In addition to democratizing access to knowledge, it requires adapting content for online formats and reinventing graphic design practices to meet new demands for… Continue reading Reinventing academic access