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Exercise 1 Examples (Portfolio 2023)
Here’s a few examples from 2023 class. Credits in the image files: Sofia Pinto; Ana Isabel de Jesus Loreto; Ana Rita Ribeiro; Claudia Barros; Laura Jardim; Ricardo Sousa; Rita Soares; Rui Marques; Telma Maia.
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Exercise 1 Examples (Portfolio 2024)
Some examples from 2024 class. Credits in the image files: Giulia Seritelli; Alícia Filipa Neto Oliveira Pereira; Beatriz Carvalho Loureiro; Beatriz Costa Gonçalves;Josefine Stella Annabel Weinschrott; Maria Helena Costa Gomes; Olga Batista Marinho; Sofia Ventura Laranjo;
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Exercise 1 Examples (Portfolio 2025)
Here are a few selected examples of interesting resolutions from your colleagues from the class of 2025-26: Andreia Adão; Bruna Carvalho Gonçalves; Bruna dos Santos Dantas; Carolina Vilaça Gomes dos Santos; Daniela Martins dos Santos; Dominika Natalia Fornal; Gonçalo Manuel Pinto Pereira; Joana Martins Barbosa; Maria Patrícia Garrett; Mariana da Silva Ferreira; Sara de Castro…
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And Now for Something Completely Roman: The Ministry of Silly Brackets!
Lately, I’ve been “vibe-coding” a lot of silly (and sometimes useful) applications using AI (Claude, Deepseek, ChatGPT and more recently Gemini). The results have been… monumental! Instead of getting lost in dense theoretical explanations, I’ve found that the best way to truly grasp letter anatomy is by creating interactive visual demonstrations within the concepts of…
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Type Design & Multicultural Font Development with Joana Ranito
FBAUP welcomes Joana Ranito, type designer and font engineer at Universal Thirst (@Instagram), for an Open Lecture focused on multi-script type development and multicultural typographic systems in a global, digitally distributed design landscape. December 10, 5:00 PM — Auditorium PS01, FBAUP Hosted by: Type Drawing (DT101) — BA in Communication DesignIn collaboration with: SIG Ligatures…
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Silver at the ADCE Student Awards 2025
Rui Marques and Ricardo Sousa, recent graduates of Communication Design at FBAUP, have just won a Silver in the Typography category of the ADCE Student Awards 2025 with PINHAIS, a typeface that began in the FBAUP LDC Bachelor course (exhibited in the design graduation exhibition) and grew into a rigorous, exploratory approach to letterform design.…
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Living Lines: A Review of Rui Abreu’s Lecture
On a crisp afternoon at the PS01 Auditorium of FBAUP, Rui Abreu, one of Portugal’s most celebrated type designers, delivered a captivating masterclass titled “Living Lines”. Hosted by the Communication Design Bachelor and with support from the i2ADS research unit, the session offered a deep dive into Rui’s design philosophies, his type foundry’s work, and…
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Thinking Design Through Typeface Design
Thinking about design, through typeface design, is a crucial step in the journey of any design student. At least, that’s how I see it. Mainly because it involves working with something essential in any design project: observation. Observation naturally leads to analysis, a skill that’s heavily developed in the [Lettering and] Typeface Design course. It’s…
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Living Lines Lecture with Rui Abreu
On October 30, join us for an inspiring lecture by renowned type designer Rui Abreu, a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto and founder of R-Typography. In “Living Lines,” Rui will explore his creative process behind designing typefaces and share insights from the professional type design activity he runs together with Catarina…
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Journey Eternal: exhibition field trip
Last week, the Lettering and Type Drawing students from the Communication Design bachelor at FBAUP had an unforgettable experience visiting the exhibition “Para Ser Eterno Basta Ser Um Livro — Editorial e design do livro em Portugal no século XX” [To Be Eternal, a Book is Enough – Editorial and Book Design in Portugal in…