Eduardo Recife - Chosen Artist

Eduardo Recife

We have chosen the artist Eduardo Recife to base our project on.

Some examples of his work are below:

Everything we know is dust

Waiting 

Dream

We particularly like the way his work uses a collage approach, with layered photographs/text and then hand-drawn scribblings over the top. We also liked the way he used vintage style photographs within his illustrations.

Information about Eduardo Recife

• He is an artist, illustrator, typographer and graphic designer from Brazil. 
• He does freelance work for professional clients and also sells his personal works to galleries or to individual clients upon request. 
• Recife's illustrations have a characteristic vintage feel and an old-era style. 
• He started his website in 1998 as a place to distribute typefaces and also experiment with collages and drawings.
• In 2002 he started to work full time as a freelance illustrator.
• "I always loved to draw, since childhood. Later on when I was around 15, I really got into tagging and graffiti. I didn't get to do much in the streets, but it was my first love with type. Later on I found some people working with digital typefaces, in the 90's with the whole grunge scene happening at the time. I really identified myself with everything: the music, graphics and feel of it."
• "I think vintage graphics are much more beautiful than what we have right now. I think everything was more poetic and well done. The magazine covers, the posters, prints… Seems like one had to be very talented to work on the field, since there wasn't a lot of computer help at that  time. Today things are much more mechanical and cold. Everything screams photoshop; the treated photos, the images, the type. I enjoy the handmade feel of vintage images and how they carry the traces of time... But I think that apart from this I probably was influenced by either artists from the early 1900's (dada) or from artists that were using vintage material in their collages."

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