Enter The Void.
2024
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)
Guimarães
Visual Identity
Motion Design
Research
Photography
Enter The Void Festival is a free event where students connect with award-winning professionals across art, design, cinema, architecture, and sound. For this edition, I led the animation titles, interactive visuals, and billboards that gave the festival its dynamic energy and cohesive identity.
The identity centers on a leap-of-faith metaphor, exploring tension between control and chaos. Fractured grids, kinetic typography, and high-contrast human silhouettes convey emotional freefall, while risograph textures were translated into motion through layered overlays, camera shake, and rhythm-driven type behaviors, producing a visceral analog-to-digital experience.
The festival attracted 26 national speakers and 200+ attendees, establishing Enter The Void as a national cultural landmark. Getting the recognition of Graphis Design Annual 2026, highlighting both creative excellence and professional impact.
Born from a student-led concept, the identity revolved around a powerful metaphor, the leap of faith. It represented the vulnerability and courage that define every act of creation.
Visually, the system explored the tension between control and chaos. Fractured editorial grids, kinetic typography, and high-contrast human silhouettes captured the emotional freefall into uncertainty, and hope.
Signature motion sequences extended this experimental, boundary-pushing spirit across digital and physical spaces, creating immersive moments that engaged students and professionals alike.
Risograph printing added raw, analog tactility to the print materials, later echoed in motion graphics through layered overlays, simulated camera shake, and rhythm-driven typography.
This analog-to-digital translation deepened the identity’s physical and emotional impact, transforming each frame into an invitation to let go, to experiment, to evolve.of creation.
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Francisco Modesto, Designer, Interview for Notícias University of Porto ->
The new identity helped ignite engagement nationwide featuring 26 national speakers and attracting over 200 attendees across recent editions. More than numbers, it sparked a creative movement that continues to blur the lines between academia and industry, particularly across Northern Portugal.
Participants called it:
”An adrenaline shot of creativity.”
“One of the most daring and necessary cultural movements of the year.”
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Beyond the team imagined, this identity bringing together new speakers collaboration, draw over 500 participants who filled every session of the 2025 edition.
This influence extended well beyond the institution:
Media Coverage: Featured in +10 national outlets, including Correio do Minho ->, O Minho ->, O Mirante ->, University of Porto ->, IPCA->, School of Arts & Design->, reaching thousands of readers.
International Recognition: Showcased on leading design platforms such as Abduzeedo -> and the Clube da Criatividade de Portugal ->.
Awards: Winner of Silver at the Graphis Design Awards 2026-> in New York, defining its global recognition as the best of graphic design.
Creative Collaboration: Developed by a multidisciplinary team of professionals and students into a real project that launched this students into stunning careers.
Today, Enter The Void stands in the eyes of the creative community as a inclusive education and creative courage, proving that the future of design isn’t automated; it’s audaciously human.
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