Eduardo Recife
Encyclopedia
Eduardo Recife is an artist, illustrator, graphic design
er, and typographer from Brazil
. He is creator of Misprinted Type, a website featuring his personal works, collages, drawings, and typefaces. Recife's clients include The New York Times
, Entertainment Weekly
, HBO, and Showtime. He does freelance illustration and design for professional clients, but he sells his personal works to galleries or to individual clients upon request. He has been in the business of design since the mid 1990s.
, Brazil. From childhood, Recife was a prolific drawer. His earliest artistic memory is from his kindergarten class, when he drew a tree with leaves on all the branches. This early display of artistic skill greatly impressed his teachers, and Recife cites that moment as the first time he recognized his own talent.
At the age of 17, Recife developed an interest in graffiti. He studied tagging styles and street alphabets, which led to his discovery of grunge digital typography
.
On living in Belo Horizonte, Recife has stated that "Brazil is a fantastic place" that he enjoys for the weather and beauty. He has also stated that his country's appeal is marred by "political corruption, violence, and crime".
Recife is also known for his handmade letter-forms and his love of typography. He states that "[t]ypography for me is so strong because it’s a mixture of both 'words' and 'image'. What can be more powerful than that when trying to communicate something?"
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
er, and typographer from Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. He is creator of Misprinted Type, a website featuring his personal works, collages, drawings, and typefaces. Recife's clients include The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
, HBO, and Showtime. He does freelance illustration and design for professional clients, but he sells his personal works to galleries or to individual clients upon request. He has been in the business of design since the mid 1990s.
Biography
Recife was born in 1980 in Belo HorizonteBelo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, Brazil. From childhood, Recife was a prolific drawer. His earliest artistic memory is from his kindergarten class, when he drew a tree with leaves on all the branches. This early display of artistic skill greatly impressed his teachers, and Recife cites that moment as the first time he recognized his own talent.
At the age of 17, Recife developed an interest in graffiti. He studied tagging styles and street alphabets, which led to his discovery of grunge digital typography
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
.
On living in Belo Horizonte, Recife has stated that "Brazil is a fantastic place" that he enjoys for the weather and beauty. He has also stated that his country's appeal is marred by "political corruption, violence, and crime".
Creative works
Media that Recife has worked with include pencil, paint, computer, photography, and collages. Recife’s illustrations have a characteristic vintage feel and an old-era style, which he discusses in an interview with Adriana de Barros of Scene 360.Recife is also known for his handmade letter-forms and his love of typography. He states that "[t]ypography for me is so strong because it’s a mixture of both 'words' and 'image'. What can be more powerful than that when trying to communicate something?"