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Exhibition catalogue for O Calígrafo Ocidental. Fernando Lemos e o Japão (The Western Calligrapher. Fernando Lemos and Japan).

This catalogue brings together a significant selection of images of works from the exhibition, many of them previously unseen in Portugal.

The graphic design was based on the close relationship that the artist established with Japan and its culture. The book’s design sought to include details and nuances that established a bridge with Japanese textures, materials and graphic forms. The vertical layout of the typography on the cover is indicative of this relationship. The typography on the cover itself, Migra (by Pangram Pangram Foundry), with its accentuated serifs, seeks this connection with the Japanese calligraphy that Fernando Lemos studied.