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DINGBATS BRASIL | RioBooks, 2015
by Bruno Porto (concept, curatorship, text & design). Translated by Aline Belmok, Braulio Flores, Bruno Porto, Daniel Siciliano Bretas, Isabell Böck | fame creative lab, Karen Xu, Lưu Thị Ly, Noel Fernández, Rafael Freire, Sarah Stutz & Vanessa Zhao. ISBN 978-85-61556-87-7
An overview of the first decade (1996-2006) of the Brazilian production of pictorial alphabets - the dingbats. Comprising an exhibition seen by over 50,000 visitors from dozens of nationalities in cities across South America, Asia, and Europe, the 35 projects by 22 designers from distinct regions of the country rescue and record aspects of the lush cultural diversity of Brazil - music, religion, arts & crafts, sports, gastronomy and design - in digital fonts of various styles. This book presents all the works from the show as well as its text in six languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Simplified Chinese, German, and Vietnamese.
Porto+Martinez 1996 > 2004 | J.J.Carol, 2005
by Bruno Porto & Marcelo Martinez. Foreword by João de Souza Leite. ISBN 978-85-89376-18-1
As a visual profile of eight years of Porto+Martinez designStudio, it chronicles the groundbreaking and award-winning identity systems, editorial projects, illustration, packaging, games, animation, dingbats, etc., which have defined the studio. Coleção Portfólio Brasil features a selection of the most distinguished names in the Brazilian design industry – such as Evelyn Grumach, Interface Design and Victor Burton – that shows off a range of both their talents and breadth of ability, as well as noted accomplishments and an overview of their signature style.
Typographic Memories of Rio de Janeiro | Serifa Fina, 2019
by Bruno Porto. Foreword by Leonardo Buggy. ISBN 978-85-66599-08-4
This publication combines the revised imagery and textual contents, translated to English, of the seminal book Typographic Memories of Laranjeiras, Flamengo, Largo do Machado, Catete and environs, 2003, and the visual article Typographic Memories of Weekends in Copacabana, published in 2005 in Tupigrafia magazine, plus original texts by its author with references and comments on other publications and researches on urban typography. An autobiographical chronicle motivated by the commercial signs that helped shape the unique personalities of some of Rio de Janeiro's most traditional neighbourhoods - Laranjeiras, Flamengo, Largo do Machado, Catete and the world-famous Copacabana - over the last decades of the twentieth century.
• Selected for the 14th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial (2024) in the category Books about Design
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