EXCLUSIVE FACES V5 REVEAL: EURICO SÁ FERNANDES

Fresh out of the starting blocks, Eurico is barely out of his teenage years. He is a great talent, albeit one you probably haven’t heard of yet. His youthful, invigorous style is threaded with fiery Portuguese notes and we’re pleased to have found him in order to bring you an exclusive font with his name on it.So with the introduction out of the way, let’s kick things off with a brief Q&A…1. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF?I was born in 1991 in a small town near Porto, Portugal. At the age of 14 years old I enrolled on a graphic design vocational course at Escola Artistica e Profissional Arvore. After a gap year I moved in the summer of 2010 to London where I joined the London College of Communication to study graphic design. Alongside this I also began work as a freelancer and started to develop a special interest for typeface design. Following this I formed a studio called Ponto with Mariano Lobao.Research book about the French cinematographic movement called “Nouvelle Vague”. This is the research book of my exhibition “Tribute to Nouvelle Vague” that I made in the well known art space in Porto, called “Maus Hábitos”.2. PUTTING TOGETHER A PUBLICATION FOR A PORTUGUESE ILLUSTRATION IS QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENT. HOW DID THIS IDEA COME ABOUT, AND HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO FINISHED?Colher is a project I started towards the end of 2009. The project aims to explore and promote the Portuguese graphic design scene. The idea came around long before we knew exactly what to do with it. It was only when I moved to London that Mariana suggested we used a magazine as the prime form of media to get the concept together. When I started to organise this publication at the start of 2011, my idea was originally to create a very small magazine about the new wave and blood of Portuguese illustration. So with that in mind I started to invite a few people and ran a contest on the Colher’s website. We ended up having

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