MyFonts’ Creative Characters Issue #52 highlights the work of Pintassilgo Prints: “They used to do it all: illustration, graphic design, product development, screen printing — hence the name of their company, PintassilgoPrints. Lately this young couple from the seaside city of Vitória, Brazil, has concentrated almost exclusively on type design. And quite rightly so. Their fast-growing collection of playful and informal display and script fonts has met with increasing success, and these past few months they’ve scored more than one bestseller. Don’t be fooled by the apparent nonchalance of their letterforms: technically, their fonts are painstakingly made. Meet the bird-loving, hard-working, type-enamored Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin”.
At the opening of the poster exhibition “Discover the Brazilian Cinema” presented at the 2nd Brazil Film Festival in Beijing, its co-curator Bruno Porto was joined by British designer Zara Arshad and Italian multimedia artist Alessandro Rolandi in an panel to address the relation between moving and still images: movies and its posters [...]
Infographic design in Brazil is considered to be one of the best in the world. At this year’s Malofiej, the Oscars of design information assigned by SND, Brazil toke 8 awards (you can check the whole list here), and it’s been like that for the past years. In a country where the habit of reading newspapers and news magazines still have an enormous margin for growth, infographics are increasingly assuming a role far beyond news and data visualization – the role of capturing and retaining more and more readers. Inspired Magazine picked 10 of the best Brazilian infographic designers, as well as the links for their online portfolios [...]
Bruno R. Padovano, Suzana M. Sacchi Padovano and Alessandro Sacchi Padovano of Padovano Arquitetura em Rede Ltda received the Gold Medal at IDSA’s IDEA 2010 Awards in the Environments Category [...]
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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.
Bruce Sterling has recently post an article about Galeria Choque Cultural in the “Beyond the Beyond” column at Wired Magazine [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]