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

Campaign for the Portuguese Itinerating Cinema Program. The image previously created for the promotion of Portuguese cinema was merged with that of a Portugal’s road map, bringing to the fore the notion of the mobility of this program.

Art director and graphic designer: António Silveira Gomes
Project manager: Cláudia Castelo
Graphic designer: Marco Balesteros

Produced materials: poster

Communication for three exhibitions by João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva under the overall theme of de-paramnesia, a word coined by the artists to convey “a technology of ontological purpose, in other words, a Pataphysics , a science that things about the being and its fleeting truth through fictions”. The participants of the three exhibitions included, among others, Alexandre Estrela, João Tabarra, Phillippe Meste and João Seguro.

Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes and Nuno Horta Santos
Produced materials: Posters, invitations and flyers

Graphic design for the exhibition of the French collective Société Realiste, which presents itself as a sort of trend agency, producing art pieces under that banner.

Curator: Natxo Checa
Artists: Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy
Art direction and graphic design: António Silveira Gomes
Graphic designer: Sílvia Prudêncio

Produced materials: programme and invitations

Ads for the Lisbon guidebook, using tree-like and a 17th century Gothic architecture-like style. Presenting Patrícia Portela twin shows Flatland I and Flatland II.

Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes

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.

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

This is an agency for the support of legal migration, inviting American citizens to embark in the Portuguese Dream. This was an artistic intervention done in partnership with Zé dos Bois gallery for the exhibition “After the Carnations” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The produced form, that people had to fill out, aimed to gather curricular information on the interested party, and acted at the same time as a satire to the kind of questionnaires that non-US citizens are asked to fill out when they enter the country. This project was presented in the summer of 2001, in San Francisco, a few weeks before 9/11.

Authorship: Zé dos Bois and barbara says

Produced materials: form, stickers and logo

The theme of the exhibition held at the hall and corridors of the Berlaymon Building (the European Commission headquarters in Brussels) was Migrations. In order to define the format of the catalogue, we used the standard proportions of flags, and we also employed a grid that allowed a strange mobility for both text and images, as if they were never in their exact, proper place.

Curator: Lúcia Marques
Art direction: António Silveira Gomes(designer) and Cláudia Castelo (projecto manager)
Graphic designer: Sílvia Prudêncio
Produced materials: catalogue.

French Invasions, Part II. After a first exhibition at the Zé dos Bois gallery by a group of French artists, this second wave occupied the bulky building from a XVII century prison cum fish conserves manufacturer in the area of Santos, Lisbon. This became at one time the exhibition space, the artists’ residency and clubhouse. The graphic project reflects this experience: an art and life orgy.

Curator: ZDB (Francisca Bagulho)
Artists: Delphine Reist, Sébastien Perroud, Laurent Faulon, Matttia Denisse, Gaelle Rouarda + Etienne Caire, Anne Julie Rollet + Mathieu Werchowski
Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes and Nuno Horta Santos

Produced materials: posters and catalogue

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.

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)

Rigo — “Quando um Sábio aponta para a lua o idiota olha para o dedo. Nós somos o idiota.” (“When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger. We are the idiot”, quote from a Bruce Lee movie).
By using three different materials – offset, silkscreen and Xerox – these posters mash up our own working processes and those of artist Rigo 23, to wit, appropriation, social action, vernacularism and poetry.

Artist: Rigo 23
Curator: Natxo Checa and Man Ray Hsu
Art Direction, graphic design and production: António Silveira Gomes
Graphic designer: Marco Balesteros

Produced materials: poster and invitation

“Transcription” – 68×48 poster, printed on 70 gr. poster paper, two colors front and back. Four professionals worked on this project [one graphic designer, two employees at the Cyber Clube Ericeira (Rita and Rafaela) and one producer: Cláudia Castelo] a multifunction Samsung SCX-5530FN printer was used together with a computer to fac-similie an excerpt of the Alberto Pimenta poem “Made in aéreo”, originally published in “Obra Quase Incompleta” edited by FENDA in 1990. This poster was printed in September 2009 at Gigaresma Printers, Lisbon.

Poster for the homonymous exhibition. In physics, an Italic G is the symbol that stands for the universal gravitational constant, or Big G. We tried to represent the letter G as large as possible so that it would impose an almost architectural stance when superimposed with the image of the suspended artist.

Graphic design: António Silveira Gomes
Produced materials: Poster and invitation

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

This blown up Anti-aliased mural is an headache for the elderly to read, but a contemporary interpretation for a man ahead of his time.
This was a project done in collaboration with architects Rita and Catarina Almada Negreiros, who use in their work a renewal of the Portuguese tilery art.

Motiongraphics and CD for a solo concert. “Acção” is a project developed by composer and interpreter Joana Bagulho. It is a harpsichord re-interpretation of Carlos Paredes Portuguese guitar compositions and performances.
We looked into the construction and history of the harpsichord and learned that in the XVII century some instruments were decorated with a landscape scene or a phrase in the interior lid. This can be seen in numerous Vermeer paintings. We drew upon this and other visual aspects related to the instruments sound properties, like – scratching and pinching on lacquer surfaces – to create a visual score and lettering for the different themes throughout the concert.

Alphabet and drawings: António Silveira Gomes
Vídeo and animation: Alexandre Castro
Software: Video Projection Tool by H.C. Gilje