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Popular Sayings
At the beginning of 2020, I started a personal project, lettering popular Brazilian sayings.
My goal was to design them like book covers, mixing lettering and Creative Commons imagery and collages.
My goal was to design them like book covers, mixing lettering and Creative Commons imagery and collages.
I designed each saying's lettering style inspired by both their meaning and the imagery they evoked. Either following the feeling and playing with the words or simply working with the images for a composition.
Final artworks
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Everything begins on paper
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