Projects
Over the years, we have supported many clients and managed education, research, strategy and design projects in varied creative fields.
A common denominator across all of our projects, is our passion to create value through deep dedication to art, creativity, sustainability and responsible production.
Visual Content for Le Bailly Fonts
Estúdio Ofício developed a collection of images for Le Bailly Fonts typeface catalogue creating visuals and stories combining the client’s typefaces and our own archive of analogue photographs. Each set was created to showcase the personality and distinctive features of each type family and was designed specifically for the MyFonts platform.
Editorial design for the visual artist Grécia Paola
Over three intense weeks, we designed a 600-page doctoral thesis by the artist Grécia Paola. Translating the ideas of measurement, time, repetition, movement, and finitude into a visual language, we developed a flexible grid, a typographic system, and a series of graphic markers that guide the reader through the research and artistic practice.
ERC Scarlet
Barbot Bernardo and Ofício were contracted to lead the visual and communication strategy for ERC SCARLET, a European Research Council project led by Heritage Scientist Prof. Paula Nabais at the Departamento de Conservação e Restauro, NOVA FCT (Lisbon). SCARLET will reconstruct historical dyeing recipes, characterise them and make that knowledge accessible — integrating chemistry, history, and heritage science. Between 2026 and 2029, we'll be responsible for the project's visual identity, communication strategy, graphic and editorial design. Read more about this case in our Journal
The Heritex Toolbox
Visual identity, website and learning tools for a platform showcasing a living archive of 10.000 years of textile heritage. The Heritex Toolbox is a platform for entrepreneurs, researchers, and fibre enthusiasts, built as part of Heritex-Hub , a networked knowledge hub to empower the green transition in textiles and fashion by harnessing the wealth of data and insights provided by the study of Textile Heritage. This project is a part of the COST action IG19131. Read more about this case in our Journal
Contamos Todos em Macedo de Cavaleiros
Project management, contents, training, graphic and editorial design. "Contamos Todos" promotes artistic and cultural practices in Macedo de Cavaleiros, a remote region in Northeastern Portugal. Our intervention focuses on the wool and silk clusters and includes training and education for local stakeholders, developing learning materials and registering traditional weaving patterns and techniques. Read more about this subject in our journal
Binomial Advisory
Visual identity for Binomial Advisory. Read all about this case in our Journal
Ligado Studio
Visual identity and website for Ligado Studio, a boutique consultancy focused on type foundries founded by Joana Correia and Paley Dreier. Read more about this case in our Journal
UNICEPE
New website and graphic design for UNICEPE, a cooperative bookstore and cultural space founded in 1963 in Porto. Read more about this case in our Journal
Saber Fazer em Vinhais
Project management, contents, training and graphic and editorial design. "Viver Mais e Melhor" is a follow-up for our 2021-2023 "Cultura para Todos" initiative, when we first piloted a community learning methodology that we are now adopting in other projects at both the national and European levels. Our intervention focuses on the wool cluster and includes training and education for local stakeholders, developing learning materials and registering traditional weaving patterns and techniques. Read more about this project in our Journal.
Zumbido Books & Coffee
Strategic design and visual identity for a new bookshop and specialty coffee shop catering for children, young adults and families. We designed the business strategy (marketing strategy, retail strategy, food & catering, interiors) and provided strategic support in all stages of the process, from planning to opening. Later in the project, Estúdio Ofício, our design practice, designed the visual identity and visual system. Read more about this case in our Journal
Noronha Franco Arquitetura
Visual identity for the architectural practice Noronha Franco. Sara Noronha Franco is a Portuguese architect working in Lisbon, Porto and her native Funchal (Madeira Island). Read more about this case in our Journal
Padaria Farm House
Website design and development for a small rural hotel in the Douro Valley, Northern Portugal.
Connary Fagen, Inc.
Strategic marketing and social media communication project for Connary Fagen, Inc., a type foundry and studio known for its soulful typefaces with extensive and inclusive language support. The project included studying the foundry’s unique philosophy, creating the plan according to a unique value proposition, target groups, markets, and goals, and developing the strategy and content for each of the foundry’s channels. Read more about this subject in our journal
Golden Pilates
Visual Identity for Golden Pilates. Known for their wonderful Espaço Phi’s, a central Porto Pilates studio and Golden Mean’s Pilates teacher training academy, Ana and Miguel decided to launch a new equipment brand catering for the European market. Their machines were developed based on all their extensive knowledge gathered over years and years of practice, teaching the studio clients and training pilates teachers. Know how we created their Identity in our journal.
Comeca
Brand strategy, Identity and web design for an historic distributor of high-end professional kitchen appliances. This project is a complete rebrand commissioned to celebrate Comeca’s 75th anniversary. Read more about this case in our Journal
Fios Jardins Suspensos
With this project, Fios Jardins Suspensos, a small business dedicated to commercialising Kokedamas and green functional wall covering, pretends to launch it's internationalization strategy. For this, we provided strategic support, brand strategy and developed a new brand identity and complete visual system, including a new logo and colour scheme. A new website and online store will be available by the end of 2024
Edições Saber Fazer
Our in-house book publisher, focusing on technical books on the topics of craft and small-scale manufacturing. Our Saber Fazer unit is the editor and publisher and our graphic design studio Ofício is in charge of the visuals and all the editorial design. You can find our collection at Saber Fazer website.
Susto
Strategy and graphic design for a new product design and interiors brand. Susto, a brand to be launched in 2023, is a project dedicated to interior design with a strong focus on artisanal processes, new materials and expressions. Careful research informs the brand, whose creative direction plays with different aesthetic currents and reflects the frontiers of design and visual arts and the future of craftsmanship. Get to know SUSTO’s visual identity.
BREAK IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
Communication strategy and graphic design. One of the 29 European projects awarded by the MusicAIRE programme, is a two-week hybrid bootcamp for independent musicians and labels, focused on the exchange and transmission of digital skills concerning some of the most pressing aspects of today’s music industry. Find out how we created BREAK’s identity.
