We believe that, most of the times, it’s the simple way of adressing problems and the simple solutions that give you the best results. To make this statement we’ve made this simple poster. Hope you like it.
Poster: A2, type: Helvetica
By: Pedro Monteiro
Tiago Pinheira made this poster and send us. Here is what he said about this work:
i made this based on the album “dreams in colour” by David Fonseca. That’s one of the albuns i liked most last times, and i did this poster the day after i saw his show.. i was completelly amazed. it helped me on a typography work for school
Poster, A3
By: Tiago Pinheira
Thank you Tiago for your participation. Keep up with the good work!
I’ve always liked this sentence from the song ‘Me and Bobby McGee’. I really love the version that Janis Joplin sang. So here it is a small type and grid play I’ve made from this song. Hope you like it. Please comment 
Poster: A2 , Type: Helvetica
By: Pedro Monteiro
My cousin Pedro Sá Correia is a great photographer. Some days ago he was showing me his latest works and I had one of those ’speed of light’ inspirations from one of his pictures. This is the final result.
You can check his work here and, who knows, you might be also as inspired as I was. Thank you Pedro for your great work and to be so kind as to let me ’spoil’ your amazing picture with some type.
By: Pedro Monteiro; picture by Pedro Sá Correia
Poster: A2, type: Helvetica
Here at whatype we’ve been working on a new project. It’s going to be a digital publication, the idea behind is that each issue tells one or two stories at the same time. We’ll invite both a photographer or illustrator and a writer and give them complete creative liberty to work as they like. By making them work together we expect that sometimes the ‘visual side’ will decide on the story to be told, other times it will be the other way around. Either way they can do as they please. In the end whatype will design the story and publish it on-line, as a book/magazine.
Here is an example of the experiments we’ve been doing for this project. We are mixing Helvetica with Garamond and loving it. Hope you like this also. Keep posted for further news.
By: Pedro Monteiro
Type: Garamond and Helvetica
Well, this was one of Joana’s posts; a couple of days ago. We though this could make a neat poster. Even if we don’t really know what this one would stand for….. Any ideas?
By: Joana Maciel (text); Pedro Monteiro (design)
I’ve worked with Chris Watson (from Visual Think Map) on the redesign of his great project Visualization Magazine.
This magazine collates some of the most creative and innovative visualisation of information that try to simplify the complex. This volume is based around circles. You can see it on issuuu here.
Please check it out because it includes some amazing works from some brilliant people around the world.
Here at whatype we don’t believe this are the times of the end of print. Sure that the crisis isn’t helping newspapers but the real deal is that the newspapers industry is an old one. What’s keeping readers away from newspapers is the way that the industry isn’t able too change within itself.
With every newspaper that is closed, with every journalist that is fired, a bit of freedom of speech, a bit of democracy is being lost. There’s no way to substitute the role of good journalism (the citizen journalism is a good thing but it’s still no substitute).
To try and change this, whatype is starting a movement. We’ve made 4 different posters A4 sized so that everyone can print them and post them everywhere. In each poster we’ve included a message to everyone in the newspaper industry.
Our challenge for you is to print as much as you want/can and post them where you think they can make a difference – newsrooms (outside and inside), near distribution points, etc.
By supporting your newspaper you will fight for your own voice. By telling what you want and expect from a newspaper, one that’s worth both your money and your time, you will be fighting for a better world.
You can download the posters here, here, here and here
By: Pedro Monteiro
Poster: A4, type: Helvetica
This is a set of posters I’ve done about 4 different albums that where (are) really important for me and my loving of music. Each one was discovered in a different time of my life and showed me something more, something new.
Each part of this image is meant to be a poster by itself, all share the same template based on the golden proportion and the different type sizes relate by using the Fibonacci series.
By: Pedro Monteiro
Posters: A1, type: Helvetica
(this work is meant to be a homage to this bands, all the lyrics are copyright to their writers. Any mistake in the lyrics is mine)
This is a Portuguese small text that plays around with words. In a ‘free’ translation it goes something like this:
Time has asked time, how much time does time has. Time has answered time, that time has as much time as time has
I wanted to do something with this for sometime now. For this poster I’ve developed a simple horizontal grid with 12 divisions (as much as the ones in a watch) and made a vertical division using the golden proportion. The word TIME is set at 123pt and the smaller words are set also in the golden proportion to the larger type. After that I’ve placed the circles all also in the golden proportion with both the page and the divisions of the page. The text inside the circles rotates at various angles, ’showing’ time in matter of minutes (each 2º is a minute in a real watch).
By: Pedro Monteiro
Poster: A2, type: helvetica
