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Inês Calado

Portfolio № 07Designer & photographerLisbon

Things
noticed on foot,
made by hand.

(Hello)

I’m Inês Calado. I design identities, interfaces and printed matter for people who care how things feel in the hand — and I photograph the city in between commissions.

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A brutalist concrete apartment block seen from below with colourful laundry hanging from a single balcony.Pl. 02OlivaisPainted wooden fishing boats pulled up on a beach beside coils of rope and nets under an overcast sky.Pl. 04NazaréA small café window glowing at night with one person seated inside, seen from the empty street.Pl. 06Campo de Ourique

Selected work

Three commissions from the last three years. Each one started with a walk.

  1. 01Tidewater AlmanacA risograph tide almanac for the fishing cooperatives of the Oeste coast — 12 months of tables, moon phases and swell charts in two inks.
  2. 02FerroWayfinding and a live departures interface for a regional rail line, designed for the 40 seconds between the platform stairs and the closing doors.
  3. 03Casa SardinhaIdentity for a 22-seat tasca in Alfama: a hand-drawn sardine, a rust ink, and menus that are rewritten every morning by the cook.

Between commissions

All 9 plates
Inês Calado holding a film camera in her studio

About the studio

“Good design is mostly paying attention — the rest is ink and patience.”
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