Author

Sebastião Rodrigues

A Autópsia dos Estados Unidos
(1953)
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About

Sebastião Rodrigues (1929–1997) was a Portuguese graphic designer.

From a very young age he started doing small odd jobs for the advertising department of newspaper A Voz, where his father worked.

In the early sixties, he began working with Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, a major cultural institution in Portugal. He designed the identity and print collateral of dozens of exhibitions.

He designed hundreds of book covers and jackets for Portuguese publishers Ulisseia, Publicações Europa-América, Sá da Costa, Verbo, Arcádia, and others.

He worked with the Estado Novo regime throughout his career, namely through Secretariado Nacional de Informação, the government’s propaganda arm.

Notable clients include RTP (Portugal’s public broadcaster), Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Banco de Portugal, and Mosteiro da Batalha.

Timeline

1929
Born in Dafundo, Lisbon, Portugal.
1940-1941
Studies at the Escola Industrial Marquês de Pombal under painter Calvet de Magalhães and architect Frederico George. Financial difficulties force him to abandon.
1945
Starts working at Atelier de Publicidade Artística (APA).
1948
Starts working at the studio of Manuel Rodrigues.
1959
Travels through northern Portugal for six months with a grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, researching vernacular graphic materials.
1959-1961
Art-direction of Almanaque magazine.
1991
ICOGRADA’s Award of Excellence.
1995
«Sebastião Rodrigues: Designer», career retrospective exhibition at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

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