Eva Gonçalves Studio
Eva Gonçalves Studio

Eva Gonçalves Studio is a multidisciplinary practise specialising in art direction and graphic design. The studio works in the overlapping spaces of design, art, and community. The projects we work on tend to have collaboration at their core, and we like to get deeply involved in the work process.

The studio has many years’ experience working with artists, architects, galleries, start-ups, NGOs, global brands and independent publishers. And we work most often with people, groups and institutions whose values I share.

As well as design work and consultancy, I have co-founded or co-organized a number of art and educational projects; give workshops and lectures; and write for magazines and journals.

Based between Berlin and Lisbon but with a global client roster, we are always open to discussing new projects, wherever you’re based.

For new business enquiries:

studio@evagoncalves.com
+49 (0) 176 568 081 61


Instagram ↗
LinkedIn ↗
Behance ↗

Services

art direction
graphic design
consultancy
editorial design
branding & corporate identities
web design
packaging
illustration
exhibition design

lectures
workshops
writing & research
mentoring

Clients

ACT on Living Wages
A Growing Culture
Allianz Kulturstiftung
Greenpeace Germany
Maat Museum
mono.kultur
Hamiltonian Gallery
Nansen Magazine

Verlag Antje Kunstmann
Suhrkamp Verlag / Insel Verlag
Fondazione Morra Greco
Citizens for Europe
DIF Magazine
Nobody Magazine
Scriptings / Achim Lengerer
TTTAW / Nástio Mosquito
Sonnenglas

Talks, Teaching & Workshops

Design, Non-Design

Communication Design, Universidade Lusófona/Delli
(Course, w/ Gemma Copeland)

Roleta do Emprecariado

(launch of the Portuguese edition of Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe, by Silvio Lorusso)
June 2023
(Q&A with the author)

Design, Ensino, Dentro e Fora

Conversas da Doca, at DOCA, Associação Design Ofícios e Cultura
November 2022
(Round table)

Masterclass

ISMAT Lusófona, at Algarve Design Meeting
May 2022
(Masterclass/Workshop)

Design is political everything is connected education is resistance

Top-Up, ETIC – Escola de Tecnologias, Inovação e Criação
January 2022
(Talk)

Making Space and Questioning the World – Publishing Lab

FH Anhalt – Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
May 2020
(Seminar/Workshop)

PLAY! SEE! TELL!

with Alexandra Klobouk
FH Anhalt – Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
3–7 June 2019
(Workshop)

Poster and Flyer Design

Restart – Instituto de Criatividade, Artes e Novas Tecnologias, Lisboa
February 2019
(Teaching)

Making a magazine

IBA Campus 2018 – Hotel Egon, Thüringen
13–15 August 2018
(Workshop)

Art Direction & Illustration in Publishing (and a couple more things...)

Design Akademie Berlin
18 January 2018
(Talk)

Utopia Office (for the Non-Country Builder)

Ellipsis Summer School
11 September 2017
(Workshop)

I still don't know what I'm doing

Ciclo Ser Designer
Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon
16 December 2014
(Lecture)

Up the Mountain / Subir a Montanha

Conversas XXI–XL
Arquivo 234
6 December 2012
(Talk)

Texts


‘Embargoed Memories’

Essay on the Portuguese violent colonial past told through fragments of my family’s heirloom
Futuress
2022

Cityx60: Berlin

viction:ary
2014

‘Work in Crisis / Work in Design’

DES/GN: Fbaul
2013 

‘Generation Y, Contemporary
Portuguese Graphic Design’

Pli* Arte & Design 4
2013

Awards


2022 ADC 102nd Annual Award (shortlisted)

2016 Die schönsten deutschen Bücher

2015 Green Product Award

2013 Jovens Criadores 

Featured on

 

Errata Podcast ↗
AIGA Eye on Design (I) ↗
Flexin Podcast ↗
It’s Nice That ↗
AIGA Eye on Design (II) ↗
Fonts in Use ↗
Creative Review ↗
Women of Graphic Design ↗
Fonts in Use ↗

Collaborators & past interns

 

 

Anaïs Macqueron
Raquel Gomes ↗
Rita Mota ↗
Daniel Sousa ↗

A longer set of ideas & thoughts on design & collaboration


Design is my way of entering conversations and discussions in order to solve a particular problem, or improve a situation. Each situation can be seen and approached from many perspectives, design is only one of them. That’s where collaboration enters the process.

Collaboration is integral to how I work, and has led to many long-term relationships. On every project, I like to commit from start to finish — and beyond.  

Collaboration requires integration, the coming together of different views, opinions, concerns, skills and backgrounds – all of which can and should be synthesized into the design process.

Collaboration leads to stronger relationships between people, better and more effective human networks that  create stronger communities, counter isolation, and offer an alternative to the individualism that’s encouraged too often by the technologies and systems that make up our reality.

As a dialogue between different people from different fields, each harnessing different perspectives and tools, collaboration can lead you (much) further than independent work.

As well as working extensively on magazine editorials and book design, I also offer consultancy and advice on every stage in the publishing process: from founding a publication to distributing it, fund-raising to promoting, and beyond.

The more I work, the more my network develops, the more I am able to bring to the process. If needed, I can help us find web developers, illustrators, animators, copywriters, photographers and more.

From a tight group working on a catalogue or visual identity to large-scale social or political gatherings, working together — bringing different skillsets to the table — often produces the most effective results. I’m especially interested in, and open to, projects that have this kind of cooperation at their heart.

My personal projects explore ways of bringing people together — something that’s more vital today than ever.

I approach all my work — from traditional design work to more exploratory personal projects — as research. Every project is an investigation into something bigger than itself. And every project gives me skills and knowledge I can take to future collaborations.

How do people communicate? How do people spread and share their ideas? Their values? Their art? And how can I use my toolset to help or support that sharing?

I don’t necessarily see myself as the expert in these processes, just someone that can contribute her knowledge and bring something to the conversation, alongside other participants, and willing to learn something along the way.

Eva Gonçalves Studio is a multidisciplinary practise specialising in art direction and graphic design. The studio works in the overlapping spaces of design, art, and community. The projects we work on tend to have collaboration at their core, and we like to get deeply involved in the work process.

The studio has many years’ experience working with artists, architects, galleries, start-ups, NGOs, global brands and independent publishers. And we work most often with people, groups and institutions whose values I share.

As well as design work and consultancy, I have co-founded or co-organized a number of art and educational projects; give workshops and lectures; and write for magazines and journals.

Based between Berlin and Lisbon but with a global client roster, we are always open to discussing new projects, wherever you’re based.

Contact
studio@evagoncalves.com
+49 (0) 176 568 081 61


Instagram ↗
LinkedIn ↗
Behance ↗

Services

art direction
graphic design
consultancy
editorial design
branding & corporate identities
web design
packaging
illustration
exhibition design
lectures
workshops
writing & research
mentoring

Clients

ACT on Living Wages
A Growing Culture
Allianz Kulturstiftung
Greenpeace Germany
Maat Museum
mono.kultur
Hamiltonian Gallery
Nansen Magazine
Verlag Antje Kunstmann
Suhrkamp Verlag / Insel Verlag
Fondazione Morra Greco
Citizens for Europe
DIF Magazine
Nobody Magazine
Scriptings / Achim Lengerer
TTTAW / Nástio Mosquito
Sonnenglas

Talks, Lectures & Workshops

Design, Non-Design

Communication Design, Universidade Lusófona/Delli
(Course, w/ Gemma Copeland)

Roleta do Emprecariado

(launch of the Portuguese edition of Entreprecariat: Everyone Is an Entrepreneur. Nobody Is Safe, by Silvio Lorusso)
June 2023
(Q&A with the author)

Design, Ensino, Dentro e Fora

Conversas da Doca, at DOCA, Associação Design Ofícios e Cultura
November 2022
(Round table)

Masterclass

ISMAT Lusófona, at Algarve Design Meeting
May 2022
(Masterclass/Workshop)

design is political everything is connected education is resistance

Top-Up, ETIC – Escola de Tecnologias, Inovação e Criação
January 2022
(Talk)

Making Space and Questioning the World – Publishing Lab

FH Anhalt – Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
May 2020
(Seminar/Workshop)

PLAY! SEE! TELL!

with Alexandra Klobouk
FH Anhalt – Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
3–7 June 2019
(Workshop)

Poster and Flyer Design

Restart – Instituto de Criatividade, Artes e Novas Tecnologias, Lisboa
February 2019
(Teaching)

Making a magazine

IBA Campus 2018 – Hotel Egon, Thüringen
13–15 August 2018
(Workshop)

Art Direction & Illustration in Publishing (and a couple more things...)

Design Akademie Berlin
18 January 2018
(Talk)

Utopia Office (for the Non-Country Builder)

Ellipsis Summer School
11 September 2017
(Workshop)

I still don't know what I'm doing

Ciclo Ser Designer
Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon
16 December 2014
(Lecture)

Up the Mountain / Subir a Montanha

Conversas XXI–XL
Arquivo 234
6 December 2012
(Talk)

Texts

‘Embargoed Memories’

Essay on the Portuguese violent colonial past told through fragments of my family’s heirloom
Futuress
2022

Cityx60: Berlin

viction:ary
2014

‘Work in Crisis / Work in Design’

DES/GN: Fbaul
2013 

‘Generation Y, Contemporary
Portuguese Graphic Design’

Pli* Arte & Design 4
2013

Awards

ADC 102nd Annual Award 2022 (shortlisted)
Die schönsten deutschen Bücher 2016
Green Product Award 2015
Jovens Criadores 2013 

Featured on

AIGA Eye on Design (I) ↗
Flexin Podcast ↗
It’s Nice That ↗
AIGA Eye on Design (II) ↗
Fonts in Use ↗
Creative Review ↗
Women of Graphic Design ↗
Fonts in Use ↗

Collaborators & past interns

Anaïs Macqueron
Raquel Gomes ↗
Rita Mota ↗
Daniel Sousa ↗

A longer set of ideas & thoughts on design & collaboration


Design is my way of entering conversations and discussions in order to solve a particular problem, or improve a situation. Each situation can be seen and approached from many perspectives, design is only one of them. That’s where collaboration enters the process.

Collaboration is integral to how I work, and has led to many long-term relationships. On every project, I like to commit from start to finish — and beyond.  

Collaboration requires integration, the coming together of different views, opinions, concerns, skills and backgrounds – all of which can and should be synthesized into the design process.

Collaboration leads to stronger relationships between people, better and more effective human networks that  create stronger communities, counter isolation, and offer an alternative to the individualism that’s encouraged too often by the technologies and systems that make up our reality.

As a dialogue between different people from different fields, each harnessing different perspectives and tools, collaboration can lead you (much) further than independent work.

As well as working extensively on magazine editorials and book design, I also offer consultancy and advice on every stage in the publishing process: from founding a publication to distributing it, fund-raising to promoting, and beyond.

The more I work, the more my network develops, the more I am able to bring to the process. If needed, I can help us find web developers, illustrators, animators, copywriters, photographers and more.

From a tight group working on a catalogue or visual identity to large-scale social or political gatherings, working together — bringing different skillsets to the table — often produces the most effective results. I’m especially interested in, and open to, projects that have this kind of cooperation at their heart.

My personal projects explore ways of bringing people together — something that’s more vital today than ever.

I approach all my work — from traditional design work to more exploratory personal projects — as research. Every project is an investigation into something bigger than itself. And every project gives me skills and knowledge I can take to future collaborations.

How do people communicate? How do people spread and share their ideas? Their values? Their art? And how can I use my toolset to help or support that sharing?

I don’t necessarily see myself as the expert in these processes, just someone that can contribute her knowledge and bring something to the conversation, alongside other participants, and willing to learn something along the way.