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 [...]

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…

Wallpaper* magazine’s “Born in Brazil” issue features the Campana Brothers, graphic designer Felipe Taborda, jewelery designers Antonio Bernardo and Livia Canuto, fashion designers/stylists Lenny Niemeyer and Oskar Metsavaht and architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, among others.

Brazilian art director Carlos Vinicius Lopes won the main award at the 3rd International Biennial of the Poster in Bolivia. The exhibition was held at the Museo San Francisco in La Paz, during November 2009. The theme of this edition of the Biennial was “Migration”, and Lopes’ poster series “Sobreviver” (“Survive”) was elected by the Jury the recipient of the U$3,000 prize…

Brooke Hatfield, from Paste Magazine, interviews Eduardo Recife, who shares of some really interesting sources of inspiration, like one earliest artistic memories is of a robbery: One night after dark, he and a friend were midway through their first attempt at pixação, a Brazilian graffiti style, when thieves ambushed them. Recife, now 29, has become a prolific illustrator, collage artist, font designer and photographer with a bevy of high-profile clients like The New York Times, HBO[...]

UK monthly graphic design magazine Grafik features a review of Rogério Duarte’s exhibition in Australia in its issue #180.

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 [...]

Brazilian graphic designer Kiko Farkas gave a talk at the Nanjing Arts Institute on November 10th 2009 during the opening of an exhibition of 50 of his posters for the São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra.

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 [...]

Rogério Duarte started his career as a graphic designer in the 1960s. He had begun his formation in this area by taking the experimental course offered by Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro MAM-RJ [ Rio de Janeiro's Modern Arte Museum]. He worked with Aloísio Magalhães between 1961 and 1962. He is famous for his collaborations with the musicians of the Tropicália movement, especially Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, his book covers and movie posters. In the latter field, he designed the poster of the movie “Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol” (1965) of Glauber Rocha, one of his most famous works.