An editorial object whose art direction was defined by another group in the course. The text, images and much of the visual identity of this re-edition of “The Nation of Plants” by botanist Stefano Mancuso were created under the guidance…
Tag: Tracing paper
A Mulher Negra na Cultura Visual de Portugal Colonial
This project investigates the impact of racist representations of Black women in Portuguese visual culture of the colonial period. It seeks to understand how editorial design can contribute, politically and pedagogically, to a critical and conscious reading of these 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.
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.
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 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…
Wrinkles
Wrinkles is a non-literary publication exploring the experience and transformation brought about by time. The narrative unfolds as a cycle bringing together three dimensions — landscape, skin and artifacts — understood as surfaces on which time leaves distinct marks.
Prática Editorial como Reativação
Scientific archives are fundamental repositories of human knowledge, yet often remain inaccessible due to challenges of cataloging, digitization and cultural mediation. Following a curricular internship at the Desmond Morris scientific archive, held at the Museum of Natural History and Science…
Oxalá te volte a ver outra vez, para me contares mais.
“Oxalá te volte a ver outra vez, para me contares mais” is a project carried out in the Advanced Studies in Editorial Design and Typography curricular unit, taught by Mário Moura, in the curriculum of the Master in Graphic Design…