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Giving voice to the letters immediately transmits a sense of democracy, remembering the importance of each person’s voice, in this huge collective that is all of us. In the text written by João Pedro Mésseder, each letter of the alphabet speaks in the first person, emphasizing and exploring its own graphic aspect, associating it with personal characteristics and bringing it closer to the “real world”. The book “Vozes de Letras” was composed and printed in mobile characters by the master typographer Rui Damasceno, and it is also the home of these typographic illustrations created from types of wood and lead, zincogravures and other graphic material existing in Tipografia Damasceno, in Coimbra. The final product, in which word and image dialogue, and each other complement each other, also intentionally evokes visual poetry and poetic experimentalism.
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Joana is a graphic designer and does art direction. A passion for typography is recognized in her work. For the construction of graphic images she uses and mixes several techniques. She graduated in Painting and Communication Design (ARCA, Coimbra) and completed a master’s degree in Graphic Design (University of the Arts London). She also studied at the Royal College of Art, London, where she experimented with video and traditional typography. Collaborated with the FBA atelier in Coimbra for 5 years. She has been freelancing since 2007 and has worked mainly with clients in the cultural field (TNSJ, Porto; English Touring Opera, London; TAGV, Salão Brazil, JACC – Jazz ao Centro Clube and CAPC – Plastic Arts Circle of Coimbra, Coimbra). She is co-founder of Clube dos Tipos, collaborating with Rui Damasceno, from Tipografia Damasceno. She’s Founder of Editora dos Tipos, in which she published: in 2016 O Manual Prático do Tipógrafo, in 2017, together with Xeréfe, Clube Mediterrâneo –doze fotogramas e uma devoração; and in 2019 Tipografia Damasceno: 50 anos.
