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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Priscila Lena Farias is an MS-5.3 full time Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo School of Architecture, Urbanism and Design (FAUUSP), and, since 2008, a researcher supported by CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). She holds a Ph.D and a Master in Communication and Semiotics from the São Paulo Pontifical Catholic University, and a Bachelor degree in Communication Design from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, as well as a 'Livre-Docente' qualification from FAU USP. She is a professor, a researcher and a Post-graduate Program in Design PhD supervisor at FAUUSP, where she coordinates the Visual Design Research Lab (LabVisual). She was the editor-in-chief of the journal InfoDesign for 20 years (2004-2024), and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of scientific publications in the area of design, such as the Journal of Design History, The Design Journal, and Information Design Journal. She is also a referee for funding agencies like FAPESP, CAPES and CNPq. She has experience in design studies, focusing on graphic design, and more specifically on the following subjects: typography, digital media, information design, design history and type design. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This timely project focuses on the graphic objects of street protest for global movements. By defining and critically engaging with histories of creative dissent since the 1950s in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, the project reveals graphic design's capacity both to address and to exacerbate social crises and inequalities. Looking at protests across the political spectrum, t…
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The postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the project 'Graphic Design Histories for Creative Dissent: Archiving and Ethical Challenges' (GDHCD) Brazilian research team will be responsible for conducting data collection and processing in Brazil; supporting the international team and the Brazilian Co-PI in data management, analysis, and interpretation; assisting the international team in …
This doctoral research proposal aims to investigate the typographic elements in historical cemeteries in Brazil and Portugal, specifically Protestant cemeteries built in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with the guiding question being "What are the typographic elements and attributes that characterize British and Germanic cemeteries in Brazil and Portugal?". The methodological approach …
Despite having started its activities only in 1827, the São Paulo city printing sector expanded, mainly in the XX century, setting the capital as an editorial and printing pole, with letterpress and lithography printing shops, and clichè factories. There is a shortage of records and still many gaps in the field of studies on graphic artifacts produced in this first century of printing wit…
Printing offices were important for the city of São Paulo and were responsible for much of the printed communication that circulated in the city during the first three decades of the twentieth century ('Primeira República'). There are studies about book history and press in the city of São Paulo, notwithstanding, little is known about the printing offices, in particular about their means …
During the first century of Brazilian printing industry, the letterpress printing system overwhelmingly dominated the reproduction of books, newspapers, magazines, etc. Despite the existence of investigations that cover the production and development of graphic technology in the country over the years, little is known about the form of printed elements in this period: typefaces, ornaments…
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This research aims to investigate the typographic characteristics found in Protestant cemeteries of British and German origin in Portugal, comparing them with Brazilian cases in order to identify shared repertoires and cultural particularities expressed in tombstone inscriptions. The methodology combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, including on-site data collection in cemeter…
This research project is based on the typographic repertoire of Tipografia Hennies Irmãos (Hennies Brothers Letterpress Printing Shop), focus of the current post-doctoral research. It intends to broaden the knowledge about movable types that circulated in the first century of letterpress printing in the city of São Paulo. It aims to confirm the identification of the typefaces that compris…
This research internship abroad project (BEPE-DR), already foreseen in the doctoral research project entitled "The Graphic Identification of Letterpress Printing Shops in São Paulo: 1900-1930" (FAPESP grant 2018/03383-1), aims to identify and describe the main Italian influences that guided São Paulo printers in the design of the graphic identification for their letterpress printing shops…
Architectural epigraphs are inscriptions containing the names of architects, engineers and builders engraved on the façades of buildings. Previous studies indicated that they are commonly found in the central area of São Paulo city, and that they also occur in other cities in Latin America and Europe, including London. This research project has as main objective to better understand the i…
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