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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.

Captain America’s 70th Anniversary covers by Brazilian artist

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.

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.

Brazil highlighted as “Design’s Next Superpower” by Fast Company Magazine

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 [...]

Brazilian CG artist nominated to Autodesk’s “Master Awards”

Autodesk has named the recipients of their prestigious Masters awards for 2009, handing out 15 awards to 3ds Max, Softimage, and Maya experts, who were recognized as exceptional people doing exceptional things with—and for—3D CG through the work they produce, through mentoring, and for their contribution to advancing the Autodesk tools they use. Among the nominees, Luciano Neves [...]

A Brazilian talk about Asian design

Taschen editor-in-charge Julius Wiedemann and co-author Bruno Porto showcased the upcoming 430 page book “Asian Graphics NOW!” at the German Consulate General in Shanghai, on September 15th 2010, featuring a wide selection of design projects from China (mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao), Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam etc, divided in five sections – Advertising, Branding, Editorial, Non-Commercial and Packaging [...]

Roots: Salgado, Sebastião (1944)

Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He lives in Paris. Having studied economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas images, an agency created exclusively for his work [...]

Brazilian posters for the Green Movement in Iran

Brazilian graphic designers Rico Lins and Yomar Augusto are among the 140 graphic artists that take part in “Where is my vote?”, a poster exhibition for the Green Movement in Iran presented in New York, at the Visual Arts Gallery (601 West 26th Street, 15th floor), from August 30th – September 25th, 2010 [...]

New media & semiotics lecture in Shanghai

Brazilian architect and urbanist Polise De Marchi (PhD) presents the lecture “Media, perceptions and the city”, a collection of visual manifestations through the use of unconventional media, inspired by students’ perceptions of São Paulo.

Felipe Taborda’s “Kabum! Mix” poster exhibition in Warsaw featured on Wallpaper.com

Brazilian graphic designer Felipe Taborda has curated an exhibition of posters at Warsaw’s Rampa Art Gallery and Poster Museum as part of Poland’s 22nd International Poster Biennale [...]

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