The slash has recently turned into a hip graphic device through which graphic designers affirm their graphicness and book a ticket to the “inspirational” typo-graphic blogs that grant them instant glory. To read the article, click under the image.

Poster designed in parallel with the writing process of the article The Fluorescent Society. The poster was distributed and left in many streets of London, with emphasis on locations where fluorescent materials were used. Text on poster: Fluorescent pink, yellow, orange and green are everywhere. The goal is to dazzle, to see who can shout loudest and make you spend your money fastest. Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm, fluorescent spray on fluorescent paper.

Article published on the Visual Culture blog Reactor. Portuguese version only.

A revised version of the article Beyond Hybridity has been published on the book A Nervous Nap – On expanding the field of design, edited by Sebastian Cichocki (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw) and Bogna Świątkowska, including texts by Charles Eames, Tom Holert, Mark Wigley, amongst others. Published by Fundacja Bec Zmiana (Poland).

Conference titled Graphic Design: from Speed to Criticism at ESAD (Porto, Portugal) for the MA in Design.
ESAD auditorium, Friday 18th December 2009, at 5pm.

Article originally published on Bypass Magazine (issue no. 2), in English and Portuguese. To read the English version, click under the image.

Participation on the exhibition Timeless, included in the Design Biennial ExperimentaDesign. This project is the result of a critical reflection of Portuguese social and political visual communication, having as starting point a poster from the Carnation Revolution period (1974). During the process of analysis, an article was written for EXD’s website and the result is a poster that proposes a critical reflection with an “updated” version of a poster displayed in the Museu do Oriente (made circa 1975, unknown author). This poster was displayed in several streets of Lisbon, Portugal. Exhibition curated by Frederico Duarte and Pedrita for EXD09.
For the English version of the article, click under the images or download the PDF. For the original Portuguese article, click here. Poster dimensions: 68 x 98 cm, 2 colours.

Exhibition view, Royal College of Art, 2008
Posters + video projection

Introduction: If anything has changed in the world since 1977, when philosopher Paul Virilio wrote his first book on speed, it is that everything has become even faster. Graphic design is no exception.
Economy and technology impose an hallucinating rhythm to society, to culture, to design. This forces the designer to have less time to think and far more areas of art and design to embrace, thus stretching their boundaries.
What remains is the imminent need to move simultaneously in every direction, to move on, to continuously flood cities (and design) with movement. In this sense - while losing its identity - graphic design is, more than ever, a nomadic discipline. There is no time to consider history, only to produce, to deliver.
Inevitably, fastness equals superficiality.

Article published on ARC 11, UK.
You can read the discussion between Francisco Laranjo, Catherine Guiral and Randy Nakamura, by clicking here. To read the article “Shock(ing)-gun”, click under the image.

Graphic design is submerged in ambiguity, having on the word “playfulness” one of the crucial elements that can explain this reality.
This is a proposal to materialize a theoretical idea, in order to prompt discussion amongst students, practitioners and the audience.
This installation was exhibited during the month of December at the Royal College of Art, London, 2007.