What happens when technologies that promise care and insight become extractive systems that commodify our intimate data and perpetuate surveillance on female bodies?  ‘Thinking of cycles more like gardens less like mines’ investigates the political economy of menstrual tracking technologies, exploring how craft-based methods of cycle tracking can embrace imperfection, subjectivity and ritual meaning, rather than efficiency or predictivity. 

When reproductive rights are facing resurgent challenges, alternative tracking methods gain political significance. Crochet can’t be reproduced by machines, making the crochet calendar an opportunity to question dominant technological paradigms and imagine epistemic alternatives grounded in care and relational knowledge. 

By reimagining how we document cycles, this project invites a shift: from extraction to cultivation, from control to connection. 

A WET BOG IS A HAPPY BOG

Bogs, vital to Ireland’s natural heritage, are rich ecosystems supporting unique fauna and flora. Recognized by the EU for their value, bogs play 
a crucial role in carbon storage, water regulation, and biodiversity.

BOGTOPIA became a platform to explore innovative artifacts and concepts that celebrate the value of bogs while nurturing sustainable practices. This project allowed me to be playful creating the artifacts while also serving as a means to raise awareness about the significance of preserving and respecting these unique ecosystems for a thriving and interconnected planet.

This project was developed within 1 week in the Design West Summer School in Ireland. 

COUNTERS was a disruptive typographic atelier designed to push the boundaries of legibility and subvert the utilitarian function of letterforms. 

Participants were encouraged to find captivating shapes in the most unlikely places, which would then be used to form a coherent digital alphabet. Ultimately, this was an exercise in expanding our ways of seeing, allowing exciting things to be revealed in the most unlikely places.

From the glass door of an abandoned shop on a busy Lisbon street, I looked twice at the shapes created by old white paint on clear glass. These quirky shapes became the basis of my exercise. I used them to create a fun and wobbly typeface that aims to challenge letterforms and their relationship to each other.

CINENOVA is a Interuniversity Film Festival in Portugal focus is the relationship between Cinema and Knowledge.

Since 2021, the design team has been focused in bringing structure as well as novelty to each year’s edition. Focusing on concepts such as light, light refraction, the power of imagery, and color, we create a concept and identity that complements the energy of this festival. We also design all the essential graphic elements, including posters, flyers, social media assets, website, backdrops, awards, and more.

My role in this project, in addition to being involved in the initial development of the identity concept and system, focused on the development of editorial flyers, web design, creation of social media assets, and photography.

At the end of my degree I had the privilege
of being part of the organizing team for
the Communication Design Graduate Show. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it had to take on an all-digital format.

Respecting the culmination of the work developed by the new graduates, we took inspiration from the reality we were living in to develop the identity of the show: Being together through virtual windows, closed from the outside world.

My role in this project, in addition to being involved in the initial development of the identity concept, focused on poster design, web design and photographic record of printed elements.

The National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, Portugal, is the country’s most important museum dedicated to nature. Its rich collections, gathered over more than 250 years, cover zoology, anthropology, geology and botany. The museum asked us to redesign its website to make it clearer and more appealing to a younger audience.

We took a systematic approach to the problem, developing reusable components and adaptable page layouts that the museum team could use
 to create the pages they needed on the site.