We have an old friendship with Senzu coffee roasters. It started with a mutual admiration for our work and passions and ended in this very special collaboration. Diogo is a good friend, the man behind Senzu's roaster and one of the heads running ABCoffee, the first speciality coffee school in Porto. He roasted a special edition batch to Ofício, which quickly sold out. It's a Costa Rica (El Perezoso, Natural), perfect for brewing in a Kalita Wave or a V60, two of our favourite methods.

We started after Barbara's call asking Barbot's help in a crazy project of relaunching her grandparent's department store in downtown Porto. The new name, GRAMPA, refers to her heritage and the work of the previous generations, and a tool with the same name, a homage to handmade and small-scale production. It was a concise consulting project consisting of only three sessions.

Ofício recently finished a commission to Velo Culture, the illustration "Bicicletas Bonitas", which means Beautifull Bicycles in Portuguese, designed by Miguel Moreira. It will be a decade this year since I founded Velo Culture with two friends. The first Velo Culture bicycle shop opened in the early days of 2012 in Matosinhos, in the Fish Market. A few years later, we opened a second shop in Central Porto, which is now shared with the Ofício Studio.

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.

I met Sara and Helder in 2018. At the time, they proposed a challenge to plan the Manna project from scratch: a new restaurant and café in the heart of Porto. The vegan restaurant offers delicious food on-site, like sourdough bread, fermented veggies, speciality coffee, craft beer and natural wines. They also wanted to include a Yoga Studio with several classes running daily.

Sérgio Lemos invited me to visit his studio shortly after we started a collaboration with his brand, Darga Crafts. So I pedalled from Matosinhos, where I was living by then, to one of Porto's busiest roads, where he lives. Being there, still trying to recover my breath after an intense ride, I was far from imagining what I would find behind the tall gate. One of the most relaxing places I've been in Porto. It is a small building in the backyard of a bigger family house, half studio, half apartment.

It has been one year since our brothers at Velo Culture, and our friends from Dome Ethical Store gathered together. On a stormy afternoon, Velo Culture hosted Dome Ethical Store and us to talk about Ethical Design.