Graphic design in use, that's what it's there for. Thanks to the people in the images, who give meaning to the design, and who are part of the community that makes this event unique. Among others, the director Bertrand Mandico, who had a retrospective in this edition; the director João Gonzalez, who provided live music for films chosen by him in an unforgettable Stereo session; the director of the award-winning film Os Caçadores, David Pinheiro Vicente and his producer Luis Urbano; the British artist Morgan Quaintace, with an exhibition at Solar.

Photos João Brites, Nuno Rodrigues
© Curtas Vila do Conde

A Construção do Algarve, Arquitetura Moderna, Regionalismo e Identidade no Sul de Portugal, 1925-1965, a book by Ricardo Costa Agarez, published by Dafne Editora (dafne.pt).

Fora de Série Series (#17)
Dimensions: 408 p., 17,5×24,5 cm
Weight: 1100 g
May 2023
DL: 515093/23
ISBN: 978-989-8217-60-8

Poster, other promotionals, signage and merchandising design for Curtas Vila do Conde, 31st International Film Festival.

“History is a central element in this 31st edition of Curtas Vila do Conde. At the start of a new decade of life, Curtas celebrates its journey so far, underlining its importance for Portugal’s film history and for the individual stories of so many cinephiles who have been to Vila do Conde to rediscover the magic of cinema. (…)” (www.curtas.pt)

Poster’s composition orbits around a closeup of the sculpture Le Baiser (The Kiss, circa 1882) by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). “The Kiss originally represented Paolo and Francesca, two characters borrowed, once again, from Dante’s Divine Comedy: slain by Francesca’s husband who surprised them as they exchanged their first kiss, the two lovers were condemned to wander eternally through Hell.” (www.musee-rodin.fr)
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” — Auguste Rodin

Should we rediscover life or just watch the hate take over?

Year: 2023
Client: Curtas Vila do Conde CRL
Video spots by Loop (loopaudiovisual.com)

A book by André Tavares and Diego Inglez de Sousa, published by Dafne Editora (dafne.pt).

Equações de Arquitectura Series (#34)
Dimensions: 292 p., 15,0×22,5 cm
Weight: 650 g
November 2022
DL: 507173/22
ISBN: 978-989-8217-59-2

Poster, other promotionals and programme for the play Breve Sumário da História de Deus (Brief Summary of the History of God), by Gil Vicente. Directed by Nuno Carinhas and presented by Teatro Nacional São João.

Traditional carnival carved wooden mask (Careto) from Lazarim, Lamego.
Photos by João Tuna.

Year: 2009
Client: TNSJ

Poster and basis for other promotionals, signage and merchandising for the 24th Clube Criativos Portugal annual festival. “Teremos Sempre Marte” (“We will always have Mars”) was the theme-driven for the event.
Photos © CCP

Year: 2022
Client: CCP, Clube de Criativos de Portugal

Poster, other promotionals and signage for the celebration in Portugal of the The Shortest Day, The International Short Film Day (O Dia Mais Curto, A Grande Festa da Curta Metragem), presented by The Portuguese Short Film Agency each December 21st, the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.

Year: 2022
Client: Curtas Vila do Conde

Poster, other promotionals, signage and merchandising design for Curtas Vila do Conde, 30th International Film Festival.

“There are 30 editions of a festival that knew how to assume its responsibility as a major event in the dissemination of world cinema, having overcome the difficulties of growth without crystallizing a formula. This is a pure film festival, where all visions, genres, formats and cinematographies are welcomed.” (www.curtas.pt)

Year: 2022
Client: Curtas Vila do Conde CRL

Poster, other promotionals and programme for Beiras, a creation by Nuno Carinhas from three pieces by Gil Vicente, the 16th century remarkable portuguese playwright and poet.

Client: TNSJ
Year: 2007

CD cover design for a compilation called Tejo Beat. Released on the occasion of Expo 98 – 1998 Lisbon World Exposition. Curated by Henrique Amaro, the album contains themes from various portuguese bands and was produced by Mario Caldato Jr (best known for his work with Beastie Boys).
Photography by Adriana Oliveira. Ilustrations from wind kites with imaginary animals designed by 7th grade students from Escola EB Eng. Fernando Pinto de Oliveira, Leça da Palmeira.

Year: 1998
CD jewell box 150x120mm, inc/24 pages booklet
Client: Discos Nortesul – VC

Poster for the play Coriolanus (Coriolano), by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nuno Cardoso and presented by Ao Cabo Teatro.

Year: 2014
Client: Ao Cabo Teatro

A Book edited by André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes, Lisbon Architecture Triennale fourth edition’s curators, in 2016. Co-published by Lars Müller Publishers. Visual identity for The Form of Form, Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016, designed by R2.

Client: Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2016.
210x265mm, 228pp.

Poster, other promotionals and programme design for the play Medida por Medida (Measure for Measure), by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nuno Cardoso and presented by Ao Cabo Teatro.

“Measure for Measure, written between 1603 and 1604, is seen as one of Shakespeare's problem plays due to its shift in mood. Vienna is beset with brothels and loose morality, so it's up to the Duke to provide some divine intervention.”

Year: 2012
Client: Ao Cabo Teatro

A book documenting the exhibition with the same name, curated by Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro and Ana Anacleto, presented at MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon).

Year: 2017
Client: EDP Foundation

A book by Domingos Tavares. A discreet man, with serene behavior and certain convictions, António Correia da Silva was a typical Porto citizen, creator of emblematic architectures of the city. His professional activity has never been properly valued. As an exception, no one disputes the meaning of the municipal affirmation of the Paços do Concelho building, at the end of Avenida dos Aliados, or the importance of the Bolhão Market as a promoter of civic life promoted by the liberal bourgeoisie of the First Republic. The critical discourse about his work has always revealed some mistrust regarding the programmatic assumptions of those architectures, forgetting the conceptual coherence that originated them. As for other less central works, such as the São Roque da Lameira Slaughterhouse or the Foz do Douro Municipal Fire Department garage, they have been forgotten as a mark of an era. But Correia da Silva did not disappear from the narrative of the architecture of Porto, because those two emblematic works soon touched the heart of the people, who took them as the identity mark of the civic center.

Year: 2016
240p, 216x262mm
Client: Dafne Editora

“THE TOLERANCE PROJECT has brought a message of social acceptance to over 100,000 people in 24 countries. Founded by artist-activist Mirko Ilić, this initiative showcases posters designed by artists from around the world.” https://toleranceposters.blogspot.com

Year: 2018
Size: 98x68mm

Poster for the celebration in Portugal of the The Shortest Day, the International Short Film Day (O Dia Mais Curto, A grande festa da curta metragem), presented by The Portuguese Short Film Agency each December 21st, the Winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

Year: 2016
Client: Curtas Vila do Conde

Poster for the play O Misantropo (The Misanthrope), by Molière. Directed by Nuno Cardoso and presented by Ao Cabo Teatro.

Year: 2016
Client: Ao Cabo Teatro

Poster for the play O Dia De Todos Os Pescadores (All Fishermen's Day), by Luís Parreira. Directed by João Cardoso for ASSéDIO. Co-produced by TNSJ, the play was presented at Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto.

Year: 2010
Client: TNSJ

CD cover design for Sem Cerimónias, first album by the portuguese hip-hop band Mind Da Gap.
Photography by Adriana Oliveira.

Year: 1997
CD jewell box 150x120mm, inc/16 pages booklet
Client: Discos Nortesul – VC

CD cover design for Comum, an album by the portuguese band Três Tristes Tigres.

Year: 1998
CD digipack 150x120mm
Client: EMI–VC

CD cover design for A Verdade, an album by the portuguese hip-hop band Mind Da Gap.
Photography by Pedro Lobo.

Year: 1999
2CD jewell box 150x120mm, inc/16 pages folded leaflet
Client: Discos Nortesul – VC

CD-Promo cover design for Corpos, a song by the portuguese band GNR.

Year: 1996
CD Single jewell box 150x120mm
Client: EMI-VC

A book by André Tavares, published by CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture and Lars Müller Publishers.

Photography by Pancho Guedes in a book by José Luís Tavares, Lucio Magri, João Faria with texts by Marilyn Martin, Eduardo Brito, Mia Couto. “With Pancho Guedes, journeys proliferate, overlap and expand. Just as in the ideal space of dreams, routes are itineraries are not logically planned. Going around the corner in the pulsing heart of New York’s 5th Avenue, you find Tombwa, in the Namib Desert. If you glance out of a Soweto house window you can see Sheffield’s Hyde Park Flats. Believing to be in Eugaria, you find yourself on Eclectica’s biggest island instead.”

Year: 2015
356p, 170x230mm
Client: ESAD

Poster and other promotionals for Senhor de Matosinhos, a popular pilgrimage with strong links to the sea and the traditions of local fishing activities — ”The Festa do Senhor de Matosinhos is a high moment among the pilgrimages of the county and the north of the country, having acquired new dynamics with the remarkable accessibility that Matosinhos was endowed with. It takes place during the months of May and June, lasting for almost three weeks of religious festivities and recreational, cultural and sports activities.”(www.matosinhoswbf.pt)

Client: Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
Year: 2016

Poster and programme for the exhibition Que Força é Essa — Protest and democratic engagement in Portugal: handmade posters from the Ephemera archive, part of Porto Design Biennale 2019.

“Que Força é Essa showcases a collection of handmade posters and signs belonging to the José Pacheco Pereira’s Ephemera Archive. Gathered throughout the last seven years, these posters are unique. They featured in pacific actions of protest and democratic engagement in Portugal.” (https://2019.portodesignbiennale.pt/en/events/que-forca-e-essa)

Client: Porto Design Biennale
Year: 2019

Every two years, in the heat of summer, thousands of people from different countries and cultures make their way to the border region of Idanha-a-Nova in Portugal. They come together for the Boom Festival, where they sway with psychedelic sensuality to the sound of Trance music. Photographer Valter Vinagre has accompanied these magical encounters, portraying the place and its temporary inhabitants, their constructions, desires and dreams. This book crystallizes the convulsion of those moments into a possible order, rediscovering gazes and bodies in another space and time. Texts by António Guerreiro and Joaquim Moreno decode the images and hermetic organization of the book, offering threads for readers to follow as they lose and find themselves again in the labyrinths of the imagination.

Year: 2018
240p, 175x245mm
Client: Dafne Editora

CD-Promo cover design for the radio edit of Ela Era O Meu Estilo, a song by the portuguese band Cool Hipnoise.

Year: 1996
CD Single jewell box 150x120mm
Client: Discos Nortesul – VC

Poster for the play De Homem Para Homem (Man to Man), by Manfred Karge, directed by Carlos Aladro for Arena Ensemble. The play was presented at Teatro Nacional São João, Porto. Original photographs used in the composition by Bernardo Sassetti.

Year: 2008
Client: TNSJ

Portuguese version for The Anatomy of The Architectural, a book by André Tavares, published by CCA Centre Canadian for Architecture and Dafne Editora.

Year: 2015
Client: Dafne Editora

Curtas Vila do Conde: 25 Anos, 25 Histórias (25 years, 25 stories), is a celebratory book composed of 25 texts written by various personalities (film critics, musicians, directors, writers, etc.) who passed by the International Film Festival Curtas Vila do Conde. These texts reveal the short story of Curtas, one that was told only to the ears of some. They are memories of many episodes of those who were inside the festival. The texts of the book are confidences and memories that intersect with the experience of their authors in Vila do Conde as guests and participants of past editions of the festival.

Year: 2017
300p, 123x200mm
Client: Curtas Vila do Conde

Poster for the play A Mãe (The Mother), by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Joaquim Benite for Teatro Municipal de Almada, the play was presented at Teatro Nacional São João, Porto.

Year: 2010
Client: TNSJ

A book edited by André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes, divided in four chapters is the portuguese version for the publication The Form of Form: “What is architectural form? What does architectural form mean? And why is it so significant today? Well, from our perspective, architecture is a visual construct with a full field of responsibilities and hidden values. Even before we think about architecture as a means of design, architecture is a type of knowledge. After all the tensions and frictions that happen during the physical and social transformations of our cities and landscapes, when all the fuss is over, and the different agents who contributed to change have left the field of play, what is left is a built form. Citizens live among forms; architectural forms have endured from the past and they will populate the future”. Published by Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Visual identity for The Form of Form, Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016, designed by R2.

Year: 2016
4 vols, 80p, 330x230mm
Client: Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Poster for the play O Coronel Pássaro (The Colonel Bird), by Hristo Boytchev, directed by Fernando Mora Ramos for Teatro da Rainha. The play was presented at Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto.

Year: 2007
Client: TNSJ

CD cover design for a compilation of songs by portuguese artist António Variações.

Year: 1997
CD jewell box 150x120mm, inc/12 pages booklet
Client: EMI-VC

CD cover design for Trigger, first album by the portuguese band Blind Zero.
Photography by Pedro Lobo.

Year: 1996
2CD jewell box 150x120mm, inc/16 pages booklet
Client: Discos Nortesul – VC

Poster for the celebration in Portugal of the The Shortest Day, the International Short Film Day (O Dia Mais Curto, A grande festa da curta metragem), presented by The Portuguese Short Film Agency each December 21st, the Winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

Year: 2015
Client: Curtas Vila do Conde

A book that brings together a wide range of images collected by the architect, dialoguing with original drawings and projects. Complementing the work, four theoretical texts on the question of the image and its presence in the architectural work methodologies elaborated by Philip Ursprung, Diogo Seixas Lopes, Pedro Bandeira and Eduardo Souto de Moura himself. Edition coordinated by Pedro Bandeira and André Tavares, published by Dafne Editora.

Year: 2011
Client: Dafne Editora

Poster and identity for the exhibition on design and visual communication in Portugal in the years following the revolution of April 1974, curated by José Bártolo, presented by ESAD Matosinhos and the Porto City Council.

Year: 2014
Client: ESAD Matosinhos

Poster for the play Class Enemy, by Nigel Williams. Directed by Nuno Cardoso and presented by Ao Cabo Teatro and TnBA, Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine.

Year: 2013
Client: Ao Cabo Teatro