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…

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

ADG Brasil, founded in 1989, has as its fundamental objectives to promote Brazilian Graphic Design. Acting as a channel between professionals, suppliers, entrepreneurs and the public in general, to affirm the profession’s identity, contributing for the country’s social, cultural and economic development [...]

The design developed for tweens’ books “Leituras Descoladas” collection (“Cool Readings” collection), has rendered another international award for REX Design. The brazilian design agency has been selected by Communication Arts Magazine among many design agencies around the globe to be on the magazine’s Design Annual 50.

The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, the Franz Mayer Museum, the National Association of Schools of Graphic Design (Frame), the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and the Mexican Council for Accreditation of Program Design (Comaprod) are bringing the 9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial to Mexico, with lectures by André Stolarski and Chico Homem de Melo [...]

Graphic designer Alexandre Wollner will lecture on November 5 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, during the “Visual Communication” conference. In the lecture — part of the “Distinguished Lecture Series” of the School of Art, Design and Media, Wollner will present his own work and discuss the history of design, its origins, evolution, influences, creative process, practice and principles in the context of Brazilian culture [...]

By producing work rich with feeling and a growing sense of sophistication, Brazil has begun to turn up the creative heat. According to Computer Arts magazine, the world of graphic design is waiting to see what happens next [...]

The Museum of Modern Art’s Design Store has been running regionally-sourced collections in their retails shops and online. Currently they’ve got an excellent array of products from Korea, and next up they’ll be bringing work from Brazil. The collection focuses on locally sourced materials—many of them environmentally-minded—like coconut, eucalyptus, and Brazilian white clay. The objects range in scale from small jewelry and vases to stools and even a large lounge chair designed by the Campana Brothers [...]

With Brazilian designers and companies like F. Akasaka and Melissa helping to put Brazil on the map for design (not just street art), there’s a lot of talent that’s on the brink of making it big, which is the subject of the exhibit “Brazilian Design Today: Frontiers.” [...]

Think Brazilian design and the first things that spring to mind may well be plastic flip-flops and miniscule beachwear. But there is more to Brazilian style than Carmen Miranda’s fruit basket headgear [...]