Systems
Arquivo Festival
A flexible identity for a week-long design festival — one grid, three typefaces and a wall of posters printed in a single afternoon.
Client
Arquivo Design Festival
Services
Identity system, wayfinding, print
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Year
2023
The brief
Arquivo brings together forty studios for a week of talks and exhibitions across Lisbon. The organisers needed an identity that every participating studio could adapt without losing the festival’s voice.
The approach
We designed a modular poster grid and a short rulebook instead of a logo. Each studio received the grid, the palette and one constraint, and the posters became the identity.
The outcome
Over three hundred posters were printed for the 2023 edition. The system has been reused for two more years, and the wall of posters is now the festival’s most photographed spot.
