Not Just Hot Air draws inspiration from Jeremy Aston's remarkable collection of blow-dryers, featuring over 170 products from Europe, Asia, and North America, showcasing a century of industrial design.

This collection highlights both functional innovations and design masterpieces. Each blow-dryer narrates a story, capturing the technological and social shifts, as well as evolving fashion and consumer trends. The development of this seemingly simple appliance not only reminds us about the past but also encourages us to imagine sustainable alternatives for the future.

Author
Jeremy Aston

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria

Design
João Queirós
Catarina Pereira
Leonor Pinto Félix

Drawing understood as ‘border wandering’ was the subject of António Mendanha’s research as part of his doctoral thesis presented in 2007 to the University of Vigo, at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra.

For more than a decade, the author studied Eugenio Trìas' philosophy of the limit, in order to guarantee credibility and ontological support for the idea that whenever a line travels on paper, it establishes defined physical boundaries, while opening itself up in a questioning way to the infinity of senses and meanings. There, the line is conjunctive and disjunctive at the same time: it unites and separates because, in its flesh, it presents itself as a tripolar boundary between matter and transcendence. And, the author asks, isn’t that what we are?

Language
Portuguese

Author
António Mendanha

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria

Design
Inês Nepomuceno
Pedro Lobo

Photography
Fernando Miranda

Para Ser Eterno Basta Ser Um Livro (to be a book is to be eternal) invites us to travel across the 20th century with books and covers, in a broad overview of Portuguese book publishing, illustration and editorial design.

Fragile and delicate, the books in this catalog were for the most part made before our time, and will last longer than we will. The curators’ passion for books has led them to look at these objects up-close and intimately. One way of seeing prevails: the books as design artefact.

Authors
José Bártolo
Jorge Silva

Research support
Nuno Marques Mendes

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria

Editing and proofreading
Andreia Faria
Nuno Marques Mendes

Graphic Design
João Queirós
Leonor Félix

Photography
Fernando Miranda

Image Processing
Cristiana Grácio

The Alter— journals are an editorial project originated out of the Porto Design Biennale '21 that explores expanded notions of Design practice, encompassing ecological, cultural, political and economic concerns. These journals focus on Design as a means of experimenting with alternative and pluralistic ways of living and working. 

Issues released include: #1 Alter—Realities: Towards justice through design; #2 Alter-Livelihoods: Experiments with infrastructures for community economies; #3 Alter-Production: Shaping together a common ground; #4 Alter-Scapes: The practice of controversy; #5 Alter-Care: Care is what we actually do; #6 Alter-Resistances: Liberation as a Project and #7 Alter-Citizenship: The Act of Inhabiting the City.

Editors
Alastair Fuad-Luke, Andreia Faria, Magda Seifert, Raquel Pais

Contributors
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Eduardo Aires, Beatriz Blasi + 1234, Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz (Brave New Alps), Forno Vagabondo, La Foresta, Comunità Frizzante; Manuela Dasser and Veronica Martini (Marameo Lab), António Gorgel Pinto, Paula Reaes Pinto, Design, Assemble, Rigo 23, Paulo Moreira, Lara Isa Costa Ferreira, Nuno Coelho, Isabeli Santiago, Naky Gaglo, InterStruct Collective, Cherry-Ann Davis, Nina Paim, Cherry-Ann Davis & Nina Paim; Design & Opressão; Ana Santos; Regi Silva; Ana Jara (Artéria), Marcos Coronel (PICO Colectivo), Ricardo Sanz, Elisa Silva, João de Freitas, Gabriela Salazar, Tiago Mota Saraiva.

Graphic Design
1234 (Irina Pereira, João Castro, Miguel Almeida, Serafim Mendes)

 

At a time when sneakers attain a global dimension as one of the icons of contemporary culture, Sneakers: Portuguese Brands from the Estado Novo to the Turn of the Millennium seeks to raise awareness of the legacy of the Portuguese sports footwear industry.  A brief historical contextualization is proposed, as well as a detailed look at such brands as Sanjo and Cortebel, but above all this exhibition catalog reveals an impressive archive of other brands characterized by small series, models for different sports activities, and their packaging.

This book is the catalog of the exhibition Sneakers: Portuguese Brands from the Estado Novo to the Turn of the Millennium curated by Pedro Carvalho de Almeida, on show at Casa do Design between February 11 and September 10, 2023.

Author
Pedro Carvalho de Almeida

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria 

Graphic Design
Pedro Lobo, Susana Martins

160x240mm
366 pp.
Paperback
PT 
3183537898959 
February 2023

PORTUGAL POP addresses Portuguese fashion from the eve of the carnation revolution to the present day. By doing so, it seeks to understand the multiple ways in which our popular culture, history and collective memory were projected to contemporaneity through fashion, according to the creativity of designers of different generations, backgrounds, and languages. Rather than creating a linear and chronological discourse, what stands out from the last 50 years of our recent history is the inter-generational meetings and the reflection around such categories as “old” and “new”, “popular” and “erudite”, “rural” and “urban”.

This book is the catalog of the exhibition PORTUGAL POP, curated by Bárbara Coutinho, which was on show at Casa do Design between March 19 and November 13, 2022.

Editor
Bárbara Coutinho

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria 

Art Direction
Inês Nepomuceno 

Graphic Design
Susana Martins, Susana Xavier 

160x240mm
332 pages
Paperback
PT 
3183537898959 
November 2022

Post-Normal Design challenges normalized ways of designing within the current global neoliberal economic situation by proposing the concept of "Post-Normal Design" as an exploratory attempt to confront the damage and to reframe both the discipline and the profession.

Post-Normal Design originated out of a series of colloquia, Peripheral Perspectives, in July 2021, one of the core activities of the Porto Design Biennale 2021.

Editor 
Alastair Fuad-Luke

Assistant Editor
Joana Couceiro

Contributors
Alastair Fuad-Luke, Arturo Escobar, Beatrice Leanza, Collectif etc, Luísa Ribas, Mario Blaser, Marisol de la Cadena, Martin Ávila, McKenzie Wark, Miguel Carvalhais, Orkan Telhan, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Paolo Cascone, Patrícia Vieira, Roseanne Kimber & Patricia Csobánczi, Teresa Fradique, Teresa Franqueira, Thomas Pausz, Yanki Lee, Zoy Anastassakis

Graphic Design
Macedo Cannatà

 

The historical influence of the movable type typography technique in the discipline of Graphic and Communication Design is indisputable and even today, in the midst of the digital age, the ability to master hundreds of years old typographic techniques allows us to broaden horizons and create innovative solutions to contemporary problems.

Hands-on Type proposes a “return to the past” to recover and re-contextualize typographic printing without, however, abandoning the perspective of renewal of Design and its practices.

Authors / Editors
Rúben Dias, Sofia Meira

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria

Texts
Rúben Dias, Sofia Meira,João Bicker, Erin Beckloff, Catarina Silva, Pedro Amado, Vítor Quelhas

Art Direction and Graphic Design
Pedro Meireis, Diogo Oliveira

Dwelling in Transition — Experiences from  Lockdown is an exploratory project that looks to Design to reflect on dwelling and the domestic space, following the confinements forced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Through an open call for projects students of Design, Art and Architecture were invited to share their insights on the theme. The selected proposals are joined in this publication by a set of contributions developed by invited thinkers, artists and designers.

Coordinating Authors
Ana Sofia Cardoso, Francesca Vita, Maria Milano, Marta Cruz

Graphic Design
Susana Fernando

225x320mm
144 pp.  
Paperback
PT + EN
978-989-53874-3-4
December 2022

In this time wherein Design, Cinema and New Media intersect, Image in the Post-Millennium informs and discusses the critical tension of the image today. Five essays zoom in on dynamic factors as mediation, process and critical tension.

How does (re)mediation in the digital age bring the apparatus of the image closer to the apparatus of the gaze? What is the viewer’s place and the contours of the reception of the interactive filmic narrative? And how should we reflect on the personal agency of citizens who are socially and politically engaged, at a moment when we are confronted with the image’s platitude?

This publication originates from the Image in the Post-Millennium conference, hosted by the Porto Design Biennale 2019. The conference took place on November 7, 2019 at the Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, in Porto.

Editores
Maria João Baltazar, Tomé Saldanha Quadros

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria

Essays by
Jonas Staal, Isabel Capeloa Gil, José Bártolo, Sofia Gonçalves, Margarida Brito Alves, Claudia Giannetti, Helena Sofia Silva, Carlos Sena Caires

Co-edition
Onomatopee

 

Made up of 3 issues released during the first edition of the Porto Design Biennale, in 2019, Post Millennium is a journal of critical thinking published in the context of the event's theme — Post Millennium Tension.

The journal brings together multidisciplinary contributions to challenge contemporary design practices, critically mapping post-millennium tensions — identitarian, geopolitical, technological, financial, environmental. Moreover, Post Millennium works lines of intersections or conflict between design and other disciplinary domains.

 

Editors
José Bártolo, Raquel Pais, Andreia Faria

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria 

Art Direction
Inês Nepomuceno

Graphic Design
Luís Cepa, Susana Martins

Contributing Writers
André Barata, Greg Sholette, Jonas Staal, Alice Rawsthorn, Amelia Jones, António Fernando Cascais, Boris Groys, Shwetal A. Patel, Sunil Manghani, Robert E. D’Sousa, Elisabete Marques, José Bragança de Miranda, Maria João Baltasar, Fátima Pombo, Mariana Silva,  Raqs Media Collective

Contributing Artists
Lara Jacinto, Martina Dandolo, Martina Paukova, Foundland Collective, Gohar Dashti, Eva Papamargariti

Taking the opportunity of the 250th anniversary of the Portuguese Mint and National Press in 2018, Imprimere is dedicated to the artistic and productive processes of the graphic arts, situating their evolution in the general history of the graphic arts in Portugal and in the history of the National Press in particular, observing the different techniques developed throughout the years.

The book thus presents a thoroughly illustrated set of equipment, instruments, materials and professional memories that highlight the history of the printing industry in our country, while also understanding its value in current practices and training, particularly in the areas of Design education.

Imprimere — Art and process in the Portuguese National Printing Office's 250 Years is the result of the exhibition of the same name, on show at Casa do Design between May 5, 2018 and January 5, 2019.

Editorial Coordination
Rúben Dias, Sofia Meira

Texts
Duarte Azinheira, Fernando Rocha, Francisco Providência, Gonçalo Caseiro, Graciela Machado, José Bártolo, Luísa Salgueiro, Maria Inês Queiroz, Rúben Dias, Sofia Meira

Graphic Design
Degrau

Infographics
João Tiago, Susana Fernando

Photography
Luís Espinheira

Co-edition
Imprensa Nacional — Casa da Moeda

 

Frontiere — Contemporary Design Expressions presents stories from Italian designers, companies, schools and associations as they react to the stimuli and difficulties of the post-millennium reality and discover new dimensions in the approach to Design, as well as new ways of thinking and producing.

Keeping the title of the exhibition, this book is the result of an extensive research developed by curators Maria Milano and Lucio Magri on the creative, entrepreneurial and social dynamics that currently shape the Italian territory and its reality, showing the best and most up-to-date objects in contemporary Italian Design.

Frontiere was the main exhibition in the program of Italy, the guest country of the first edition of the Porto Design Biennale. The exhibition was the result of extensive research by the curators into the complex creative and entrepreneurial reality of Italy at the turn of the millennium.

Curated and edited by
Maria Milano, Lucio Magri

Editorial Coordination
Andreia Faria, Eleonora Fedi, Luísa Medina

Texts
Maria Milano, Lucio Magri, José Bártolo

Graphic Design
Degrau

Photography
Inês d’Orey

A cutting-edge work to address the significant gap in literature concerning construction health, safety and well-being and the broad range of Industry 4.0 technologies in use in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Bringing together experienced academics and researchers, the volume highlights the drivers, opportunities and drawbacks of Industry 4.0.

After a detailed introductory section which highlights key issues and challenges, section one covers the application of a broad range of digital technologies; then section two discusses the application of industrial production and cyber physical systems in the context of construction safety and health management.

Publisher
Routledge, 2023

Editors
Patrick Manu, Goa Shang, Paulo Jorge Silva Bártolo, Valerie Francis, Anil Sawhne