Daytripper by Moon & Bá

Since the launching of its first issue in December 2009, ten-issue comic book limited series Daytripper – published by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo – has been praised by every decent comics critic. The series was collected into a trade paperback in February 2011, going straight into the New York Times Paperback Graphic Books chart at #1. It returned at the same position two weeks later, where it stayed for a week, before dropping to #2 in mid-March. At the end of June, Amazon.com posted their “2011 Best Books of the Year So Far” lists, where Daytripper was featured in its Top 10 Comics and Graphic Novels category. It has also won three of the most important international comics industry awards of the year: the Eisner (“Best Limited Series or Story Arc”), the Harvey (“Best Single Issue or Story”) and the Eagle (“Favourite New Comicbook”).

The authors of both story and art are Brazilian twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, 31 years old, no strangers to the international comics industry or awards. Both have worked with top guns of comics and pop culture from Mike Mignola (BPRD: 1947) and Matt Fraction (Casanova) to TV creator and movie writer/director Joss Whedon and alternative rock band My Chemical Romance’s lead singer Gerard Way.

São Paulo_ Daytripper by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá

At the 2008 Eisner Awards, the six-issue limited series about a disbanded group of superheroes The Umbrella Academy (written by Way with art by Bá) won for “Best Limited Series”, sci-fi adventure Sugarshock (written by Whedon with art by Moon) won for “Best Digital Comic”, and comics anthology “5″ (by Moon & Bá with other comics creators Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos and Rafael Grampá) won for “Best Anthology”. Bá had also been nominated for two 2009 Eisner Awards in the categories “Best Penciller/Inker” and “Best Cover Artist”, and The Deluxe Edition of The Umbrella Academy was nominated for “Best Graphic Album — Reprint”. Horror comics anthology PIXU (Moon, Bá, Cloonan and Lolos) was nominated for the 2009 “Best Anthology” Harvey Award.

Daytripper is currently in its 4th printing and was recently launched in Brazil, where it won an HQMix award. Each issue follows a life-changing day in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingo, an aspiring novelist who writes newspaper obituaries. The story takes place mostly in São Paulo – where the brothers were born and still live – with important events set in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, as well as small towns in the countryside or by the coast that are so real they seem to have jumped out of romances of Monteiro Lobato or Jorge Amado.

Brazilian countryside portrayed in Daytripper_

Remarkably written and drawn, Daytripper also gives its international audience a rare opportunity to experience the daily aspects of Brazilians lifestyle, habits, beliefs and culture. As a plot, it could have taken place anywhere in the world – as with most masterpieces – , but its natural Brazilian flavor definitely plays an important role in the outcome.

Salvador, Bahia in Daytripper

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'Amor' by Daiana Santana / Ednaira Mendes / Leonardo Dias, from Oi Kabum! Escola de Arte e Tecnologia, Salvador

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.

Titled ‘Kabum! Mix’, the exhibition is the culmination of a two-year project with the Brazilian Oi Kabum! schools of Art and Technology in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Salvador and Belo Horizonte, sponsored by Oi Futuro.

The nine posters for 2008 series, produced by the students, in conjunction with French designer, Alain Le Quernec, were exhibited throughout the world to great acclaim. For the 2009 series, the students worked with local tutors and Mexican graphic designer, Alejandro Magallanes, creating posters based on the themes of ‘love’, ‘the future’ and ‘Aids’.

The 2009 posters were spread throughout Rio by Clear Channel, the company who administrates urban advertisement in the city.

via Kabum! Mix poster exhibition, Warsaw – Art – Wallpaper.com – International Design Interiors Fashion Travel.

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Rogério Duarte's poster for Glauber Rocha's movie "Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol", 1964

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 was the art director of the Maurício Vilela Laboratory (1963), coordinator of the Visual Arts Department of União Nacional dos Estudades – UNE (‘National Students Union’) and director of the Editora Vozes (‘Vozes Publishing House’) from 1966 to 1968, director of DIA Desenho Industrial Audiovisuais –(‘Audiovisual Industrial Design’) (1972-1975), art director of Designio (1976 – 1978), and art director of Salvador’s City Hall (1985 – 1989).

Rogério is a multi-disciplinary artist. He is a poet, a musician and a graphic artist. 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.

Holding convictions that went fervently against the dogmatism of the School of Ulm, Rogério Duarte skillfully joined constructive principles acquired during his studies of design with elements of Brazilian popular culture, making a real visual anthropophagy during the period of military dictatorship in Brazil.

Rogério Duarte also holds two titles of Notório Saber em Artes Gráficas e Desenho Industrial (‘Notorious Knowledge in Graphic Arts and Industrial Design’) awarded by the Universidade de Brasília – UNB [ National University of Brasília] and by the Federal Education Council of MEC.

Currently, Duarte teaches in the School of Communications at UFBA (the Federal University in the state of Bahia).

via :: REDE DESIGN BRASIL ::.

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João Câmara, "Homen Discursando", 1974 -1976

João Câmara (João Pessoa, Paraíba, 1944- ). Painter, engraver, draughtsman, graphic artist, professor and critic. Between 1960 and 1963, studied painting at the Free Course of the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Pernambuco, being elected Chairman of the Society of Modern Art of Recife (SAMR) in the latter year and studying wood engraving under the orientation of Henrique Oswald (1918-1965) and Emanoel Araújo (1940- ), at the School of Fine Arts of Salvador.

In 1964, together with Adão Pinheiro (1938- ), José Tavares and Guita Charifker (1936- ), João Câmara founded the Ateliê Coletivo da Ribeira [Collective Studio of Ribeira], and in 1965, the Ateliê + Dez [Studio +10], both in Olinda. From 1967 to 1970, he lectured in painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Paraíba, in João Pessoa. In 1974, he established a lithography studio which subsequently became the Guaianases Engraving Workshop, incorporated in 1995 into the Visual Arts Laboratory of the Federal University of Pernambuco.

From the 1960s onwards, João Câmara’s output was characterised by its presentation of fragmented bodies next to human figures with structured bodies, conferring a character of strangeness on the works. During the 1970s, the artist began to execute the series Cenas da Vida Brasileira 1930/1954 [Scenes from Brazilian Life: 1930-54] (1974-1976) and Dez Casos de Amor e uma Pintura de Câmara [Ten Love Affairs and a Painting by Câmara] (1977-1983). In 1986, he executed the series O Olho de meu Pai sobre a Cidade [The Gaze of My Father over the City], in which he paid tribute to his father and the city of Recife. In 2001, he concluded the Duas Cidades [Two Cities] series, which took the cities of Recife and Olinda as its setting.

via Câmara, João (1944).

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