The Sunhoo Festival for Creativity and Innovation took place in the cities of Hangzhou and FuYang to explore the relationship between design, industry, art and technology through art installations and an international forum. Keynote speakers included fashion designer Enesoe Chan, from Curitiba; architect Cecilia Reichstul, from São Paulo; and graphic designer Bruno Porto, from Rio de Janeiro.
Jair de Souza, Daniela Thomas, Felipe Tassara, Mauro Munhoz and Leonel Kaz received the Gold Medal at IDSA’s IDEA 2010 Awards in the Entertainment Category for Museu do Futebol [...]
HOW Magazine has awarded São Paulo / London based Casa Rex for three different projects in its HOW 2010 International Design Awards.
Advertising campaign created by Curitiba based Heads Propaganda for the Electrolux Facile high pressure washer illustrated by distinguished Brazilian comic book artist Joe Bennett is featured in Lürzer’s Archive magazine.
Bruce Sterling has recently post an article about Galeria Choque Cultural in the “Beyond the Beyond” column at Wired Magazine [...]
Slovakia’s magazine Stripburger dedicated its issue #54 to alternative Brazilian comics, featuring Allan Sieber, Clayton Junior, D. W. Ribatski, Fabio Zimbres, Gabriel Goes, Jaca, Laura Teixeira, Mateus Acioli and Rafael Sica, an interview with DSalete and cover art by Daniel Bueno.
To kick off one of its main stars’ 70th Anniversary – that reaches its peak in July with the release of the movie “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Marvel Comics launches in March five special books with interlocking covers by Brazilian artist Greg Tocchini.
John Barrat spent some time in Brazil earlier this year to attend of the IDEA/Brazil Award jury. He shared some of his impressions of Brazilian Design with Fast Company magazine, including a retrospect since 2008, when Brazil made history with 12 award wins in the U.S., a feat never achieved by any South American country [...]