This post is the second part of the interview with our good friend and partner Joana Correia from Nova Type Foundry (you can read the first part here).

For this second part of the interview, we packed great insights about the creative process of designing a new typeface, the specifics of independent foundries, being a woman in design, the business of typedesign, Joana's inspirations and a few reading recommendations for those starting a career.

“Being full-time in Saber Fazer/Ofício happened quite naturally: working side-by-side with my wife provides a sort of dream situation where all the professional and personal objectives are perfectly aligned. ”

In January 2023, the GatewayCrafts project was launched, coordinated by Barbot Bernardo (Saber Fazer / Ofício).  We already had the opportunity to meet Alice Bernardo, co-founder of Saber Fazer/Ofício and the GatewayCrafts project. It is now time to get to know another face of this project, Miguel Barbot.

Porto-based Joana Correia, founder of Nova Type Foundry, has been a great inspiration. Joana has helped us grow as a design studio since we first sat down here on Rua da Aliança just over two years ago.

With her support, we have worked on ideas for new projects, learned so much about Type Design and the Type Foundries business, and met and maintained contact with many of the great talents of this international community.

Alice Bernardo is the founder of Saber Fazer and Ofício. She is a specialist in education and transmission of technical knowledge in the fields of handmade and semi-industrial production in Portugal. She works as a trainer, consultant and researcher, specialising in producing raw materials and creating sustainable production chains from the environmental, social and economic points of view.

Alice shared with our GatewayCrafts project team a few words about her professional career and the birth of this project. During the interview, it was possible to understand better what led her and her business partner, Miguel Barbot, to develop GatewayCrafts and their goals.

Something is intriguing about João Bernardino's feed. If we skip through images, all of his references make themselves visible - something that the photographer admits. The object is almost every time industrial, and the picture is at an uneasy scale. The infrastructure dominates the aesthetics. Although at almost every stage of João's work, there's the presence of either a worker, the labour or object from that activity, even when the first is (apparently) absent.