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Brazilian illustration festival in China

IllustraBrazil is an insightful exhibition featuring different aspects of that country through editorial & advertising illustration, comics and animation works by 100 of the finest contemporary Brazilian graphic artists. Held from August 20th – September 25th 2011 in Shanghai, the festival also includes a series of lectures and workshops in Chinese universities, children guided tours, and a business seminar by the Society of Illustrators of Brazil at the prestigious RockBund Art Museum featuring cases of Brazilian illustration, comics and animation projects for international clients.

Make a Virtual Trip to Brazil through “Into Brazil” Project

IntoBrazil is a part of a master degree research done by the designer Pedro Brêtas at NCAD/The National College of Art and Design. This website allows users to create a virtual travel experience to Brazil and explore touristic cities [...]

Fashion, architecture and graphic design from Brazil in international forum in China

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.

“The Soccer Museum” wins Gold Medal from IDSA’s 2010 IDEA awards

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 [...]

Lürzer’s Archive features Brazilian superhero art in advertising

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.

Brazil: The Cultural Contemporary at the Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art in London held on January 21st 2011 the one-day conference “Brazil: The Cultural Contemporary”, featuring design writer and curator Adélia Borges as the keynote speaker, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholar Frederico Duarte, educator Kiki Mazzuchelli, graffiti specialist Tristan Manco, and Cristiana Tejo, coordinator of Education at Fundacão Joaquim Nabuco in Recife.

Galeria Choque Cultural featured on Wired Magazine

Bruce Sterling has recently post an article about Galeria Choque Cultural in the “Beyond the Beyond” column at Wired Magazine [...]

Brazilian comics in Slovakian 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.

Roots: Fernandes, Millôr (1923)

Milton Viola Fernandes (Rio de Janeiro RJ 1923). Satirical cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator, writer, poet, playwright, translator. At the age of 13, he was hired by the magazine, O Cruzeiro, where he carried out a variety of journalistic tasks: writing captions, pagination and working as office boy. In an attempt to improve his skills, he attended the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios [School of Arts and Crafts] of Rio de Janeiro from 1938 to 1943.

Brazilian magazine joins Designing South Africa

Design journalist, critic and professor Ethel Leon, of online publication Agitprop, will take part in the international project “Designing South Africa”, an independent and comprehensive record of the impact of the FIFA 2010 World Cup on architecture, design, greening, infrastructure, transport and identity. The project includes a seminar, a book and an exhibition to be presented in Capetown, Johannesburg, London and São Paulo.

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