Designer: Bruno Porto
Member of: ADG - Brazil

About the design
'Typographic Memories' is a book that displays a collection of the commercial signs that established the visual characteristics of Rio de Janeiro's classical neighborhoods Laranjeiras, Flamengo, Largo do Machado and Catete during the last decades of the 20th century. Personal history is combined with Rio's typographic history in an autobiographical and spontaneous panel of sign design, typography, popular culture and graphic arts that are now starting to disappear due to modern life circumstances. The book was selected for the ADG Brazil 7th Biennial Exhibition of Graphic Design 2004.

About the designer
Born in Rio de Janeiro, 32-year-old Bruno Porto has graphic design projects published in many Brazilian magazines and books by Print Magazine, Supon Books, Rockport Publishers. Porto currently teaches at UniverCidade's School of Design and has written articles on graphic design and illustration for magazines such as Design Grafico, Designe, Vizoo and Revista da ADG. He was coordinator of the Institute of Visual Arts Illustration Nucleus from 1997 to 2001, and has also organized, lectured and enthusiastically attended numerous design congresses and meetings in Brazil and abroad. He's been ADG Brazil - Rio de Janeiro's local coordinator since 2002, and was appointed Jury Coordinator for the 7th Biennial Exhibition of Graphic Design 2004.

More information
Client: 2AB Editora / Porto+Martinez Booksonthetable
Designer: Bruno Porto
Additional creative credits: Art directed by Bruno Porto and Marcelo Martinez / Words and pictures by Bruno Porto / Design assistants: Fernanda Valverde, Juliana Passarelli, Joao Ferraz and Aina Calia
Dimensions: 150 x 150mm 64 full-color-page book
Copyright: Bruno Porto, 2003

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