Quer ver, escuta, 2020
Visual identity for the play Quer ver, escuta, by the theater group Grupo Galpão, a theater company founded in 1982 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We held a workshop along with the actors, which resulted in 116 hand drawn graphic posters and also directed a photoshoot with the actors, exploring the scenes of the play. *Project in partnership with Filipe Lampejo and João Emediato.
Cabaré Coragem, 2023
Visual identity for the play Cabaré Coragem, by the theater group Grupo Galpão , a theater company founded in 1982 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. *Project in partnership with Filipe Lampejo.
A voz a sós, 2023
Drawings, lines and letters for the audiovisual project A voz, a sós by the musician Rafael Macedo.
Solo em foco, 2023
Visual identity for the performance project Solo em foco in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Gigantic Human Printing Press workshop, 2023
This workshop was facilitated by Rita Davis, Oliver Long and Patrick Zavadskis for the graphic design BA students at the Estonian Academy of Arts in March 2023. During one week we explored ideas of printing and constructing collective tools to produce prints. By playing with scale, different materials and objects by the end of the week we had an array of actions that we collectively activated in order to become one machine and produce a range of original oversized prints.
Calendar workshop, 2024
Rita Davis and Cecilia Breña worked together with the 1st-year Graphic Design students of Estonian Academy of Arts to create a collective-wearable calendar of 2024. Exploring different techniques and tools—from analog to digital— the students created a collaborative library of graphic elements to use in the making of large scale posters and finally silkscreened T-shirts for each month.
RIBA Poster, 2021
A2 foldable poster/postcard for the Royal Institute of British architects RIBA.
Heart-shaped bed postcard, 2023
Heart-shaped bed postcard for Entropy Gauntlet Motel exhibition by Zoody, Lauri, Joonas and Tex in Tallinn, Estonia.
Poster for Bricks from the Kiln, 2023
Poster for An Incomplete A to Z of Bricks from the Kiln lecture by Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister. Presented by the MA in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Joints, 2023
MA graduation project
Joints are meeting points between bones, which ensure the human body's ability to move. Joints is also a 24-page publication which highlights artists and other professionals around the topic of language and prosthetics: as something that extends the body with the intent of becoming part of the whole. At the same time it is aware that it will find itself in limbo between the familiar and the strange: a foreign body inside a body. In three parts, the main characters, accompanied by many others, cross paths through texts and images. Most of them will never meet each other, but in the publication they exist together.
The publication was printed from six wooden plates measuring 50 x 70cm which are displayed in the garden. The content was both laser-cut and hand-carved into the panels using the method of pyrography, and then printed with a printing press.
As if I had fingers at the tip of my words, 2022
This book consists of my thesis text and it was launched in December 2022 in the city of Tallinn as part of my graduation project at the Graphic Design MA program at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
The book reflects upon the scientific phenomenon of phantom limb, using it as a metaphor to think about a presence of an absence in relation to graphic design practice. The cover and sections of the publication were printed manually by myself, using a woodcut hand carved into a plywood wall measuring 3,2x2,5m in the hallway of the university in Estonia. Each book contains the cover and 6 original illustrations, printed directly from the wall. The binding was with the sowing machine, using french fold.
Escrever Leonilson, 2023
Book about the brazilian artist José Leonilson. Wrote by Marina Baltazar. Designed by Rita Davis. Published by Relicário Edições
(Belo Horizonte, Brazil).
All horses are the same colour, 2022
All horses are the same colour is a book of student writing conceived during a two-week workshop with artist Lieven Lahaye. It includes texts by Rita Davis, Mark Foss, Alexandra Margetic, Carlo Canún, Michael Fowler, Patrick Zavadskis, Oliver Long, and Greta Þorkelsdóttir. Published by Estonian Academy of Arts / EKA GD MA. Design by Carlo Canún and Rita Davis.
FEBRE, 2022
Visual identity for FEBRE, a movie by the theater group Grupo Galpão, a theater company founded in 1982 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The movie is directed by Márcio Abreu and written by Paulo André. *Project in partnership with Filipe Lampejo.
Moving Couch Cinema, 2022
is a series of movies screened in different spots, for different people, on different days, at different times. Curated by Björn Giesecke and Rita Davis. The project is part of DRAMA. DRAMA is a 1.3m2 exhibition space on a grainy wall inside the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. Initiated within the masters programme in Graphic Design, eka-gd-ma.ee. Taking things from the floor up onto the wall and calling it something, or to be more specific: a once defunct drawer in the hallway, 1.30 x 1 x 0.05 m, now rotated clockwise, lifted 0.9 m from the ground, screwed into the concrete wall, and introduced as an exhibition space called DRAMA.
Inferninho (My Own Private Hell), 2022
A1 poster for the screening of the movie 𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖍𝖔 (My own private hell) directed by Guto Parente and Pedro Diógenes (Ceará, Brazil 2018).
In-between relationships: Initial Thoughts About Being Together, 2021
The publication In-between relationships: Initial Thoughts About Being Together was launched at Lugemik Bookshop in Tallinn, Estonia. It's a short essay about relationships, friendship, invisible borders and affection. Reflections about subverting pre-determined ways of relating to each other and what can we encounter in in-between spaces. Written and designed by Rita Davis. Risoprinted at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Karta Manifesto del Amor-Amor en Portunhol Selvagem, 2020
This manifesto was made by Brazilian and Paraguayans artists reclaming that Portunhol (the mix of spanish and portuguese) should be the oficial language of the border region between countries.
A tutorial video is available here so anyone can print and produce your own brochure at home, using color tapes for binding.
Reward to whoever finds me, 2018
BA graduation project at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
The book was developed in partnership with Marília Pires, a militant from the 60’s against against the Brazilian military dictatorship, who wrote the texts. The book was published in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Impressões de Minas publishing house.
Sushi dinner, 2021
Sushi dinner for the department of Graphic Design at Estonian Academy of Arts as part of Laura Pappa's course.
I'm serious, I'm friendly, I'm funny, 2021
is a journal that was produced collectively during the typography workshop with Jung-Lee and Josse Pyl in October 2021. My collaboration to the journal was inspired by the famous phrase by Pina Bausch: Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. And also based in the performance Clarabóia by the brazilian dancer and choreographer Morena Nascimento. From that references, I printed some frames of the performance and scanned to create texture and movement.
Mascorona project, 2020
Mascorona — masks for the new era is a artistic curatorial project that started at the beginning of the pandemic on Instagram. We started producing homemade masks and challenging our friends to do the same. Currently, we’ve curated more than 230 masks and more than 7 thousand people follow the project (from Brazil and other countries). *in partnership with Filipe Lampejo and João Emediato.