Atelier d’alves — Sergio Alves — Porto, Portugal

“We have to understand very well from an early stage how people are going to relate to space. That is to say to anticipate what will be their behaviour when they face a staircase, a corridor, a button, an arrow or, of course, an icon/signage.”

Atelier d’alves is a graphic-design studio specialising in editorial and identity projects with a strong typographic and imagery language. Based in Porto since 2013, it has become an international reference of Portuguese design, especially in the fields of contemporary art, theatre, music and architecture.