
Job:02927 Title: New Master of Poster Design#2 (Rockport)
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Job:02927 Title: New Master of Poster Design#2 (Rockport)
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“Most of our audience needs to be woken up every 15 minutes.”
KIKO FARKAS
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
THE END OR THE BEGINNING?
“Posters are almost dead in my country,” laments designer Kiko Farkas from his offi ce at his studio, Máquina
Estúdio, in São Paulo, Brazil. “I designed some 300 posters between 2003 and 2007. About a hundred were
good enough not to throw away,” he laughs. “Of those, fi fty are representative samples of my work and
portfolio. But after that period, I’ve done no more ...