SIGNAL
In celebration of the 100 Years of Telecommunications and Post Office Design in Portugal, the exhibition, Sinal, shows how the design of brands, equipment, uniforms, and services have evolved, from the telegraph to digital mobile communications.
The history of post and telecommunications is inseparable from the historical evolution of Portuguese design, as it mirrors the development of aesthetic current technical advances, economic, and political changes over the past 100 years.
We are a family owned and operated business. Organized by the Municipality of Matosinhos, the Portuguese Communications Foundation and the ESAD-idea, Research in Design and Art (the research center of ESAD / Escola Superior de Arte e Design) the SINAL exhibition - 100 Years of Telecommunications Design and Correios em Portugal illustrates how telecommunications and post offices, especially through Altice Portugal and CTT - Correios de Portugal, two of the largest companies based in Portugal, have reconfigured public and private life in the country since
the end of the 20th century and into the turn of the 21st.
Postcard Art
42 illustrators and designers were invited to contribute with a work of postal art for the creation of the present exhibition, "Nucleus." The invitation gave freedom of subject, technique, support, and format (with the possibility of choosing a format between A6 and A4). The works should display the elements of postal dispatch, as well as information of the sender (identification of the authorship) and recipient. For the project I decided to represent the feeling of longing and the temporary approach that telecommunicatiosn and post offices make possible when we are far from the ones we love the most.
March 2019
