Published by the Nanjing Arts Institute, Chinese design magazines NewGraphic and PRODESIGN have already featured Walter Vasconcelos, Kiko Farkas, Miran, Bruno Porto, Laboratório Secreto, Boldº, Flavio de Morais, Lula and DINGBATS BRASIL. A six articles series reporting on contemporary Brazilian graphic design industry will introduce different business models, styles and design fields: editorial, identity, pop, package, typography, illustration, poster, advertising, new medias…

Wallpaper* magazine’s “Born in Brazil” issue features the Campana Brothers, graphic designer Felipe Taborda, jewelery designers Antonio Bernardo and Livia Canuto, fashion designers/stylists Lenny Niemeyer and Oskar Metsavaht and architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, among others.

Brazilian art director Carlos Vinicius Lopes won the main award at the 3rd International Biennial of the Poster in Bolivia. The exhibition was held at the Museo San Francisco in La Paz, during November 2009. The theme of this edition of the Biennial was “Migration”, and Lopes’ poster series “Sobreviver” (“Survive”) was elected by the Jury the recipient of the U$3,000 prize…

Roberta Smith writes for the New York Times: “With their first public artwork in Manhattan, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17/2009, the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase” [...]

Communication Arts Magazine announces the winners of its 2009 advertising competition. Now in its 50th year, the prestigious competition selected 155 projects, representing the work of 97 firms, for inclusion. DDB Brasil was awarded for several campaigns, including FedEx, in which Fedex Express service is presented in an advertising campaign in Brazil showing the personal side of its service [...]

Highlights From Ad Age International Partner Adlatina’s Annual Rankings: Sky Brasil, Hyundai Brasil, HSBC Brasil among the best campaigns of 2009. As part of its awards, Adlatina has also named outstanding marketing executives of the year.

Brooke Hatfield, from Paste Magazine, interviews Eduardo Recife, who shares of some really interesting sources of inspiration, like one earliest artistic memories is of a robbery: One night after dark, he and a friend were midway through their first attempt at pixação, a Brazilian graffiti style, when thieves ambushed them. Recife, now 29, has become a prolific illustrator, collage artist, font designer and photographer with a bevy of high-profile clients like The New York Times, HBO[...]

The April/2009 issue of CR features The Annual, showcasing the best work of 2008. CR goes through the process of how Lobo’s wonderful hand-crafted title sequence for Brazilian TV series “Capitu” — a Brazilian TV mini-series adaptation of 19th-century novelist Machado de Assis’ work, Dom Casmurro — was made:

Fernando and Humberto Campana’s version of the famous symbol illustrates the way crocodiles congregate in the wetlands of the Pantanal region.

UK monthly graphic design magazine Grafik features a review of Rogério Duarte’s exhibition in Australia in its issue #180.