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.
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.
Vic Nic 2025 / 2026
We are back at Aveiro's "secret cinema" for a new collaboration with Vic Aveiro Arts House and its in-house book publisher and record label, VIC NIC. After designing a communication strategy and engaging in fruitful cooperation at the BREAK festival, we will be responsible for the weekly communication of the house, encompassing concerts, retail, hospitality, and projects. Read more about our collaborations with Vic Nic in our journal
Oupas! Design
Oupas! is a Porto-based design studio specialising in paper craft. After more than 10 years of experience designing and producing shop window displays, set design, and large-scale events, the studio asked us to help create an innovation and development strategy for the next decade. Read more about this subject in our journal
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
ECHN P2P Programme with the Textile Prototyping Lab (GER).
This P2P was an initiative of our friends at the Textile Prototyping Lab from Germany, to explore joint opportunities, share experiences, and get to know each other's hubs and communities. During one week, we explored Porto’s textile ecosystem, with plenty of visits to factories and meetings with fellow creative hubs. On the last day, we hosted an event at Saber Fazer, where other hubs and community members had the opportunity to get to know each other and present their projects and organizations. Read more about the event in our Journal
Natural Dyeing at Soares dos Reis Art School
Assessment and technical consulting for the creation of a dyeing plants garden at the Soares dos Reis school in Central Porto.
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.
The Type Founders
The Type Founders is home to some of the most renowned type foundries from around the world. We are helping TTF with their social media marketing efforts by providing content and graphic design for type foundries in their portfolio. This project is starting in the last quarter of 2024.
Typologies of Community - The Afrobanana Solarpunk Collectivity
This project, funded by the Creative Europe Programme, aims to redefine community building through a sustainable lens using the platform of the Afrobanana Festival in Cyprus. As the festival approaches its 12th edition, the focus is not just on celebrating the arts but on evolving into a year-round platform that actively engages and influences communities. The consortium includes partners from Cyprus, Greece and Portugal.
Vai Vem Book Publishers
Vai Vem, a book publisher based in Porto, is the second project to be supported by Barbot Bernardo’s free mentorship programme for Social Enterprises and Not-for-profits. This project will provide strategic support focusing on fund-raising, revenue stream optimization, editorial strategy and internationalisation. Currently, Vai Vem publishes critical essays, speculative exercises, and literary texts by guest contributors from various disciplinary areas, published in pocketbook format.
Ideal&Co
Strategic design project to help Ideal&Co relaunch their brand. Ideal&Co is a high-quality leather goods manufacturer and luggage brand based in Porto. In this project, we defined priorities for the multiple work areas of the company and designed a growth strategy aligned with the founders of this family-owned business vision for the future.
CommunityCloth: building capacity for community educators towards sustainable urban transition
CommunityCloth is an Erasmus Plus project (2024) coordinated by Barbot Bernardo, having Alternative Brain Rules from Cyprus and Smuss Studio from Norway as partners. CommunityCloth created tools to promote new training models and provide knowledge for community creation around farm-to-cloth productions. It created a network of educators as a cost-effective way of scaling knowledge transfer. More about this project
Hakko House
Mentoring and strategic support to rethink the restaurant and bakery business model. We helped Tiago rethink his Hakko House, a small cafe and restaurant in the heart of Bombarda, Porto’s Art District. After four working sessions, Tiago immediately introduced small improvements to the restaurant. The most visible was a total reshuffle of the restaurant layout, finding more seating space, bringing the bar to the front, and opening the massive window to the street. It took just a few days for the once almost invisible cafe to transform the end of Rua do Rosario into a vibrant spot. You can read about this project in this post in our Journal.
LAUDS FACTORIES
Technical Assessment. LAUDS Factories aims at contributing to an open and sustainable European value-based production. 15 partners collaborate to set up local urban factories for scaling up digitally distributed and open innovations. The project will launch 2 open calls for 14+ projects awarding up to a total of 240.000 EURO, and organize exhibitions, events and workshops dedicated to the new paradigm of open and sustainable urban manufacturing in Europe.
Cycling and Housing Survey
This project supports a new housing co-operative planned for a high-density area of Porto, which will focus on cycling and the comfort of future residents who prioritise cycling and other soft modes of transport. You can read more about this project in our Journal.
Jazzego
Jazzego, an independent jazz label, kickstarted our new free mentorship programme for not-for-profits and social businesses in the Porto region (Portugal). This project will provide strategic support to Jazzego, focusing on fund-raising and revenue stream optimization to expand the catalogue and support artists, fund research and creative processes, launch education and capacity-building projects and expand their distribution internationally. You can read more about this project 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.