Bruno de Almeida (1995), born in Muzambinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a researcher and visual artist based in Porto, Portugal. He holds a degree in Fashion Design from…

One young artist is chosen each year from those selected for the Illustrators Exhibition to take part in the BCBF Visual Identity Workshop, and to develop the visual u…

Shape, Share and Shout Children’s Content

After the soothingly calm 2024 edition, we were looking for ‘strong feelings’: colour, movement, invention, and action. With this mantra in mind, we browsed throu…

Intense days for the team

The Visual Identity Workshop (VIW) lasted three days and had three objectives: to acquaint Bruno with BCBF’s requirements, identify a leading idea, and evaluate its …

Colour, movement, invention, action

DAY 1. What a surprise when Bruno took up his pen and, first of all, started writing, not drawing. He explained that he puts his thoughts down on paper as it helps him…

DAY 2. Bruno’s grey pencil started drawing curved, snaking, undulating lines... Tagliatelle? 

DAY 3. The snaking lines had now become necks, arms, legs, flowers, tree trunks and roots, feathers and bird’s nests. It was hard to discern where the figures began …

Sketches become characters

The weeks following the VIW led to a conclusion. Bruno created things of beauty, colouring the figures of the cosmos he had created: an ecosystem where everything and …