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 [...]
Check out this quick tour during Opening Night of IllustraBrazil in Shanghai, recorded by Marcelo Martinez [...]
IllustraBrazil is an insightful exhibition featuring different aspects of that country through editorial & advertising illustration, comics and animation works by 100 of the finest contemporary Brazilian graphic artists. Held from August 20th – September 25th 2011 in Shanghai, the festival also includes a series of lectures and workshops in Chinese universities, children guided tours, and a business seminar by the Society of Illustrators of Brazil at the prestigious RockBund Art Museum featuring cases of Brazilian illustration, comics and animation projects for international clients.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Almost 300 Brazilian graphic design projects – from visual identity systems and packaging to posters and typeface design – will be exhibited during the 2009 Shanghai International Creative Industry Week from October 15th–21st, and at the Beijing Icograda World Congress from October 26th–30th.
Having traveled across South America, this Brazilian exhibition touches down in Beijing, after two months in Shanghai. Curated by Brazilian graphic designer Bruno Porto, the show features the first decade (1996-2006) of the country’s production of digital pictorial alphabets – the dingbats – via 35 projects by 22 Brazilian contemporary designers.
The Discover the Brazilian Cinema poster exhibition was presented in Art Scene Gallery in Shanghai in June 2007 featuring original posters by 30 Brazilian visual artists and 10 Chinese visual communication students. This exhibition, accompanying the Focus on Brazil (the Brazilian film exhibition taking place within this week’s tenth Shanghai International Film Festival) is a true visual carnival. The idea was to take forty designers, artists, illustrators, and photographers spanning all generations and regions of Brazil, and ask them to create an original collection of posters for famous Brazilian films. The collection in turn aims to introduce China, a country with an equally distinctive cultural flavor, to the richness and beauty that Brazilian cinema has to offer [...]