This is the teaser video for Signo, a typeface Rui Abreu has launched today at MyFonts. Signo is a dynamic sans serif with reverse contrast, designed for editorial and branding. The unusual stress angle for a sans-serif typeface, shifts the weight from the vertical strokes to the horizontal strokes, with a calligraphic modulation, attributes that […]
Leo Burnett has created a type for Lisbon by looking at the sky, and it’s pretty cool. You can download it at the website. The trams are part of Lisbon’s landscape and become an icon of the city. In addition to painting the street yellow, they also scratch the capital’s blue sky with their wires. From the […]
Congratulations to Rui Abreu, portuguese type/graphic designer, for a great profile interview at MyFonts. Check out his fonts at: http://www.r-typography.com/
Lovely use of typography in Martino&Jana latest work for Guimarães Jazz 2012: These past four years, we approached the jazz theme through humanized illustrations of musicians. It seemed important to seduce the audience through short stories or adventures of human characters. We wanted something different for the 2012 edition of Guimarães Jazz. Music is visually abstract and, in […]
New page for Aria Pro by Rui Abreu. Lovely type at r-typography.com
It has been around in several blogs, but I think it deserves an entry on this one. The arts & residence Casa do Conto (House of Tales) is a charming building in the emerging Cedofeita area in central Porto, Portugal. It is the result of a restoration project to convert a 19th-century bourgeois home to […]
Roughly 2 years later, Typographica updates with their favorite fonts of 2011, with an excelent selection as usual. I have to mention the fact that two portuguese designers are among the chosen ones. Congratulations to Rui Abreu (with Aria) and Dino dos Santos (with Acta&Acto).
II National Meeting of Typography (Portugal) Universidade de Aveiro, 30 September 2011 entipografia.web.ua.pt The second edition of the National Meeting of Typography is an event organized by the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro (DeCA), through the Center for Technology Studies and Communication Sciences (CETAC.media)and the Institute for Research in Media Design and Culture (ID +). With the general theme “Contexts of Research and Application”, the conference’s main objective is to be the center for the dissemination and discussion of research and development of […]
Aria Pro is a beautiful typeface by Rui Abreu, available at Fountain. In his own words: The inspiration for this typeface came from the epigraph on a frame of a nineteenth century painting. I was fascinated by the peculiar capitals of the inscription. The high contrast, and the overall quirkiness, especially the tail of the […]
Sorry to all English readers, but the following text is in Portuguese only. Sent by Ruben Dias, to promote a typography conference in Portugal. Conferência de Tipografia ESAD.CR 2010 Tipografia não é apenas o sitio onde se vai mandar imprimir os cartões, os convites de casamento… Tipografia é “a arte de dispor correctamente o material […]