Corporate identity and billboards for Lisbon’s Book Fair. We carved the lettering directly on the main ephemeral structures created for the effect of the fair, setting off an idea of fragmentation that contrasted heavily with the building’s intense and bulky red form. The project’s own drawings were reworked and mixed up with this architectural forms-based lettering.

Feira do Livro Director: Paula Moura Pinheiro
Architecture: Marcosandmarjan architecture
Art direction and graphic design: António Silveira Gomes
Graphic designers: Mafalda Anjos, Francisca Mendonça

Produced materials: typography, exhibitions signs and 3D lettering.

The cover, that looks like out of a Z-movie, may tilt the reader in the wrong way. The actual subject of this book is Abyssology, a parascience of the indiscernible, a term appropriated by artistic duo JMG and PP and explored here via an array of texts by scientists, poets, writers, philosophers and art critics. The book presents a text/image combination in which there is no distinction whatsoever between the artists’ own work and images from other sources.

Artists: João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva
Curator: Natxo Checa
Art direction: António Silveira Gomes (designer) and Cláudia Castelo (project manager)
Graphic designer: Patrícia Maya

Produced materials: book

Visual identity for the upcoming Contemporary African Art Centre, Africa.cont. The graphic project finds a balance between the internal and the external image of the institution. Two exclusive fonts were created: Kafokolo Bantu and Kafokolo Amandla, as well as a third set, comprising of an alphabet of graphic symbols, for more specific applications. Kafokolo is a Luanda (Angola) slang word that refers to the small inside pocket found in jeans.

Art direction: António Silveira Gomes (designer) and Cláudia Castelo (project manager)
Consulting: José Albergaria
Graphic designer: Patrícia Maya
Web-designer: Hélder Barão and Romeu Cristovão
Typographer: Martijn Oostra and Space Boy (fine tuning)

Catalogue and communication materials for the monographic exhibition “Amália – Coração Independente”. Amália Rodrigues is a national icon, personification of Fado culture and popular Diva.
The catalogue is an assumed repository of an immense legacy made up of photographs, newspaper cut-outs, posters, record sleeves, jewelry, figurines and all sorts of other memorabilia associated with this level of stardom. Various documents due to their exceptional value were fac-similied and bound into the catalogue.

Curator: Jean-François Chougnet
Arte direction: António Silveira Gomes (designer) and Cláudia Castelo (project manager)
Graphic design: Patrícia Maya

Produced materials: Catalogue, invitation, flyer and exhibition signs.

Is the name of a gypsy commune founded by a family – The Monteiros – that bought a plot of land near Sanguedo, Santa Maria da Feira. They set permanent camp at this location thus interrupting their nomadic nature.
The film director, Marco Martins invited us to create the visual identity for a collaborative cine-theatrical street performance that would take place in this commune. The event had various participants such as coreographers, actors and vídeo artists and was integrated in a street performance festival.
The contents were quite powerful: incredible photography and uncanny poetic vídeos that revealed the cultural autonomy of the community – the people. For the web site we decided to emphasize the visual richness of the commune by combining various portraits and interiors with a naive lettering culled from the walls of the precarious housing.
The catologue is very site specific, so we integrated a programe in the form of a map. The central image of the unfolded cover is a genealogical tree arranged in a wheel structure re-appropriated from the Romani ethnic group flag. This idea of autonomy is reinforced by the chakra shaped tree in a back drop of sky and land. Thus revealing one of the many geographic origins  – Índia.

Art Direction and production: António Silveira Gomes, Claudia Castelo.
Graphic Designers: Patrícia Maya e Alexandre Castro (web).
Printing: Maiadouro

Poster/program for the International Biennial of Poetry, inspired in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and comprising recitals, electronic music concerts, and conferences. We tried to imagine what the world would look line in the year AF632 (After Ford).

Art Direction and Graphic Design: José Albergaria and Nuno Horta.

Campaign promoting portuguese cinema. This project is a tribute to the cinema as a social space. A typeface was created using a selection of cinema-theatre architectural floor plans from Porto and Lisbon and a juxtaposition of film and festival posters.

Art director and designer: António Silveira Gomes
Project manager: Cláudia Castelo
Graphic designer: Marco Balesteros (www.letra.com.pt/)
Produced materials: catalogue, publication, poster, postcards, CD-ROM.

In both the save the date notice and the invitation, by recovering the old aerogram format, we used the envelope itself as the container of information. For the newsprint publication we chose to explore the exhibition’s core theme – scale and symmetry/asymmetry – by putting the collection pieces in a direct dialog with one another.

Curator: Andrew Renton.
Art direction: António Silveira Gomes (designer) and Cláudia Castelo (project manager)
Graphic designer: Sílvia Prudêncio
Original logo and font created by MM studio, Paris

Direct mailing for the 5th anniversary party for the delicatessen with the best view in Lisbon. The party was sponsored by two classics: Perrier Jouet – Belle Époque Champagne and Michel Cluziel Bombons. We decided to use the delis previously printed paper bags as support. And threw in a third ingredient the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland that was still actively regurgitating lava during the production of the Invitation. The information prepressed into a rapid prototyping cliché and the bags were printed on a windmill letterpress.

Graphic Design: António Silveira Gomes
Production: João Regal
Printing: M2
(original paper bag pattern by Manuel Távora)

Publication that accompanied the homonymous show by artist duo João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva. This was a project that stemmed from Victor Hugo’s book The Man who Laughs, focusing on the description of a meteorological phenomenon whose manifestation is beyond human understanding and communication.

“We try to explain all things by the action of wind and wave; yet in the air there is a force which is not the wind, and in the waters a force which is not which is not the wave. That force, both in the air and in the water, is effluvium”. Victor Hugo, The Man who Laughs.
The book also contains texts by Alfred Jarry, Friedrich Nietzche and Andrei Tarkovsky.

Editors: João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva
Art Direction and design: António Silveira Gomes

Promotional material for Experimenta Design’03.
A) Designmatography: programme of an experimental cinema showcase with indispensable works such as John Whitney’s Arabesque, Tony Conrad’s The Flicker and Stan Brakhage’s The Text of Light. This is a place where the design mobs have drinks and make out.
B) Super Panorama: ad for a great party in a derelict and very bizarre panoramic restaurant built in the 80s’.

Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes

Produced materials: brochure and press ad.

This is a music festival that was held in multiple venues across Lisbon, sponsored by a beer brand and several other entities. ZDB presented 4 days of successive concerts, with bands such as Duran Duran Duran, Blevin Blectum, My Cat is an Alien and our own Rafel Toral.

Graphic Design: António Silveira Gomes

“Flirt is: a fax machine, a computer and a camper van”. That’s what the editorial for its fist issue (no. 0) stated. Flirt was an editorial project that brought together Zé dos bois gallery and Barbara says and that lasted for 27 issues. In the years of plenty and with Expo’98 then just around the corner, Flirt acted as a sort of pièce de résistance for the underground, a proof that there was still some cultural life at the other end of the city.
The first six issues, a classic of both graphic design and national journalism, had marvelous sections such as “The greatnesses and miseries that made up the 20^th century”, a series of chronicles written by António Pocinho, mostly about recreational drugs, as the TV or the automobile; a central pages poster featuring non-dirty pictures, by contemporary artists (Alexandre Estrela, Rui Toscano, Fernando José Pereira + Miguel Leal, Rigo 23, Miguel Leal) ; the classical section “Ócios” (“Leisurely time”); and selected guides on apparently unexpected subjects, such as the best wino bars in town (by Gilberto Gouveia), how to shop around Martim Moniz, the best cheap shoe stores and the best foot doctors in the city.

Editor: Cláudia Castelo
Flirt’s hardcore: António Pocinho, Gilberto Gouveia, Pedro Moura, Mário Cameira, Francisca Bagulho, Natxo Checa, Manuel Henriques, Kika, José António Moura, Pedro Santos, Nuno Carvalho
Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes, Nuno Horta Santos and José Albergaria

With the turn of the millennium the section “Ócios” was kept, again with two great lists: a special on beaches and semi-fresh fish, and a guide for 5-star restaurants (without ever eating there!). also, interviews with Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Baudrillard, Guillermo Gomez Peña and a Roy Ascott glossary.
A special section was done for all Super8 lovers: how to create a homemade laboratory.

2001 was, at one time, the highest peak and the beginning of the downfall for flirt. Some of the issues were thematic, some were not. Maturity set in, in a project that was condemn to be adolescent forever.
One of the issues was dedicated to abandoned houses cum squats, with a how-to-guide by bone fide squatters, a text exploring the artistic takeover of the Tercenas do Marquês building, and yet another article that remains up-to-date (8 years after being written), on the empty houses and apartments in Lisbon.
Also: Angela Davis; interview with Kalle Lasn (editor for Adbusters), the republishing of the “First Things Firts” manifesto, Critical Art Ensemble, Manuel de Landa, Geert Lovink and Negative Land.

Editor: Cláudia Castelo and Pedro Ornelas
Flirt’s hardcore: António Pocinho, Gilberto Gouveia, Pedro Moura, Mário Cameira, Francisca Bagulho, Natxo Checa, Manuel Henriques, Kika, José António Moura, Pedro Santos, Nuno Carvalho, Sofia Oliveira
Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes, Nuno Horta Santos and José Albergaria

A 2-day seminar organized to review the evolution of the Guild’s editorial policy and an exhibition of foreign architecture publications. We looked into various architecture studios’ bookshelves and photographed the most archetypical, collectors’ items, vintage and bizarre publications we could find in order to build a working alphabet of books.

Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes and Mafalda Anjos
Produced materials: Poster and application form

Go to Frisco. This is an appropriately inappropriate title – the people of San Francisco simply abhor the word “Frisco” and only uncool outsiders use it still – but it just fits like a glove this whole project: a platform to present peripheral cities’ non-profit, artist-run spaces alternative to the largest art production centres, such as The Physics Room (Christchurch – New Zealand), IT Park (Taipei – China), YYZ Artists Outlet (Toronto – Canada), and Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal).

For the exhibition presented at the Southern Exposure, Zé dos Bois explored the geographical affinities of Lisbon and San Francisco by taking to that also hilly city a video observatory, a zdbmüzique à la carte and a handful of specifically produced net-art projects, with one a day presentation. The main image, used for the posters and the site, is a homage to/quote of/appropriation from Portuguese master designer Sebastião Rodrigues with a little sprinkle from Victor Moscoso-inspired West Coast psychadelia.

Conception and production: ZDB (Cláudia Castelo, Manuel Henriques and Francisca Bagulho)
Site: Tiago Borges
Graphic project: António Silveira e Nuno Horta Santos
San Francisco/Lisbon ambassdor: Rigo 23
Thanx: Emily Sevier and Mike Arcega

Produced materials: poster and site

A collective art show that stood out as a political response to the impact of the Expo’98 World Fair that was taking place in Lisbon. Issues such as identity crisis, human rights, freedom of expression, unemployment, war, racism and social exclusion under discussion by 20 young artists. Paulo Mendes, Filipa César, António de Sousa, Inês Carolina, Paulo Scavullo, Tiago Batista, Rui Toscano, Miguel Soares, Alexandre Estrela, Miguel Palma, Ruy Otero, Pedro Amaral, Rita Ferrão, Patrícia Garrido, Heitor Fonseca, Marina Reker, Eva Mota, António Nascimento, Ana Pinto.

Curators: Carlos Roque, Pedro Cabral Santo
Graphic design: José Albergaria, Nuno Horta Santos, António Silveira Gomes

Produced materials: Catalogue/brochure