A simple idea I had driving home after work. It’s really a hell of a typeface. Hope you like it!
Poster: A3, Type: Helvetica
By: Pedro Monteiro
What’s it worth?
It’s still so worth it!
After a long time feeling drain out and with nothing to say here, I’ve found this amazing typeface from my friend Network Osaka. I really admire his work (you can check it here) and this typeface just ‘made’ me do something with it. I shall experiment with it a lot more. I just hope that you don’t judge BIG BONED typeface by this work and give it a go yourself. It’s shared for download on Network Osaka’s site.
Poster: A3, Type: Big Boned
By: Pedro Monteiro
Freedom and Bobby McGee
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
At the speed of light
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
What type of Twitter are you?
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)
Quoth the raven ‘Nevermore’
This is a poster I’ve made to celebrate the 100 years of the birth of the great poet and novelist Edgar Alan Poe. The Raven is one of my favorite poems and it was almost impossible to resist the temptation of using a quote from it.
If all goes well there will be more work coming about Poe.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
Tonight my volume is a Mac Hope you enjoy this.
By: Pedro Monteiro
Poster, type: Alte Haas Grotesk
Poverty Rate By Age in America
Nathan, from Flowing Data, posted a data set and asked readers to visualize it. This is my visualization.
The first thing I wanted to avoid was showing this over a map. This, for me, is a common mistake, people tend to show numbers using maps. But maps are the visual representation of geographic data, therefor there’s no real relation between the size of the states and the number of people that live in those states (this was a common mistake on most maps during the last USA elections). By doing a cloud of words, where each state name was represented with the type size relating to the number of it’s population, one can be more accurate on the info.
Another thing to take into account is that 17% of the California is very different to 17% of the Wyoming population, so by charting just percentages without taking into account the number of people each state has is not the best way to approach this. So I went to the Census Bereau and got the population by state data.
But even after doing the word cloud, I wasn’t representing the amount of people that lives in poverty, at least not in a visible way. I then made the circles in the background all in proportion to the total of people living in poverty in each state. Please notice that the intention of this circles is to give a visual understanding of the number of people, but not to give the precise number of people that live under poverty.
Well, this is my approach to this ‘problem’ that Nathan presented. My guess is that there are a number of questions that my visualization didn’t answer and that there are much better ways of solving this. Please let me know what you think of this. You can download the pdf here.
By: Pedro Monteiro
Type: Helvetica
The Complex Grid
13/11/2009 – I’ve made a 2010 Calendar using the Complex Grid and I’ve explained it step by step. You can check that article here. I hope you like it
Karl Gerstner designed this grid for his work on the CAPITAL magazine. This is actually a six-column grid with a four-column grid superimposed. Karl suggests that this grid requires considerable study, and a designer would have to spend a great deal of time working with it before he could make free use of it in a creative sense.
Continue reading here
What type of world is this one?
I’ve been thinking about doing a world map based on cubes. When I got this information from WWF I though that I could use it. The idea here is to show the different sizes some countries have regarding their footprint and their bio capacity. There are two types of values but only one scale, the different values are presented by color. If I wanted to give a more precise information I would need to use a scale with smaller ‘steps’. But as I wanted to play around with this I’ve chose to have big ‘steps’ and fewer countries. Any comment will be really appreciated.
By: Pedro Monteiro
Type: Helvetica
What type of money is in the Paulson plan?
This is another work I’ve made to try and explain the size of the number 700,000,000,000. I didn’t had a concern of making ‘economic’ comparisons, my main idea was to pick something really big in our common sense and show people that the $700 billion number is still a huge number, even when compared with this.
By: Pedro Monteiro
Table, type: Garage Gothic
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