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.
Natural Dyeing School for the Revive Project
The Revive Project is part of the Europe Through Textiles: Network for an integrated and interdisciplinary Humanities (EuroWeb - Cost Action 19131), which vision is to re-write European history based on its massive production, trade, consumption and reuse of textiles and dress. During 4 days, Euroweb participants had the opportunity to learn with Alice Bernardo and Guida Fonseca about natural colourants, historical dyeing, dyeing techniques and mordanting, mordant dyes (weld, madder, cochineal & others), vat dyes and direct dyes (indigo, woad, orchil).
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.
GatewayCrafts
GatewayCrafts is an Erasmus Plus which started in 2023 and his coordinated by Barbot Bernardo and has Cru Creative Hub (Por) and Matera Hub (ITA) as partners. The project consists of preparing pilots to facilitate access to technical knowledge in small-scale manufacturing and artisanal work. In addition, it will seek to develop and distribute high-quality educational content, oriented and adapted for contemporary audiences and digital media. The learning strategy combines more conventional elements of distance learning, such as those already found in Saber Fazer's online courses, with others developed and adapted for a social learning logic and more informal learning on social networks.Find out how we created GatewayCrafts’s identity.
Circular Art Marketplace
Strategic Plan and Business Model for a collaborative platform and marketplace for European artists and designers working with sustainable materials. The project was funded by the Creative Europe Programme
Shearing Training
We organised several shearing training events for public and private organisatios in Northern Portugal in the spring of 2023. Our target audience was shearers, producers, and other professionals interested in sheep production. The training was led by Martin O’Connel, a professional shearer from New Zealand and a member of the Saber Fazer team. He shares his technique and professional experience in this area. Susana O'Connel monitors and explains the shearing technique and principles that respect the animal and the fibre until the wool is removed.
Capacity Building for the Serralves Foundation
In 2023, we launched a training project for technicians from the Serralves Park education service to create new activities for different audiences, taking advantage of the Park's existing resources. We organised training sessions on wool processing, weaving and shearing to use wool from the Park's flock and integrate wool processing into the annual educational activities. Once again, we planted flax and organised a long-form linen course from seed to yarn.
Capacity Building for Parque Biológico de Gaia
In 2023, we launched a training project for technicians from the Gaia Biological Park education service to create new activities for different audiences, taking advantage of the Park's existing resources. We organised training sessions on wool processing to use wool from the Park's flock and integrate wool processing into the annual educational activities.
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.
Cultura Para Todos em Vinhais
Project management, contents, training and graphic and editorial design. Cultura Para Todos em Vinhais is a project dedicated to promoting artistic and cultural practices in the Municipality of Vinhais, a remote region in Northeastern Portugal. 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
Alfaiate do Livro
Mentoring and strategic support. Small strategic consultancy project to outline a business model for Alfaiate do Livro, a small company in Porto dedicated to artisanal bookbinding.
Cabanas Lodging Services
Visual identity and website for a company operating in the hospitality sector.
VIC // Aveiro Arts House
Brand and communication strategy for one of the most critical players in Aveiro's cultural scene. Located in the heart of Aveiro, more precisely in the former residence of the multifaceted artist Vasco Branco (1919-2014), VIC // Aveiro Arts House is a creative ecosystem that combines guesthouse, artistic residencies, house-museum, micro-arts centre, store-gallery, cultural producer and publisher.
FAHR 021.3
Strategy for a creative studio. FAHR 021.3 is an artistic practice and one of the most international studios in Porto, with interventions reaching over the globe. Our collaboration covered areas such as redesigning the studio business model, repositioning its work focus and setting priorities for the next decade.
Nova Type Foundry
Digital marketing and graphic design services for a Portuguese type foundry. Before we officially became partners, our relationship with Nova Type Foundry started by providing social media management, content development and graphic design services. You can read more about this project in our Journal.
ONEX.
Brand strategy and graphic design for a catering solutions provider. The challenge with ONEX (Onexperience Group) entailed simplifying how the brand is presented in different markets as well as developing a new identity and shared visual system to the seven companies composing the conglomerate. Find out how we created ONEX’s identity.
Horta do Ser
Strategy for an education and small textile production project focused on wool. In this project, we helped the founders of this project in Alentejo, Southern Portugal, to develop a plan for a tourist, educational and cultural business.