Henrique Nardi
Henrique Nardi is an educator, designer, photographer, and visual artist from São Paulo, Brazil. He has bachelor's degrees in Graphic Design from Anhembi Morumbi (2001), Graphic Technology from SENAI (2002), and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from UNESP (2005). Henrique currently teaches Graphic Design and Typography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Tipocracia: Typographic State
“Tipocracia: typographic state” is an educational project created in 2003 to promote typographic culture in Brazil through courses, lectures, events, and the donation of books on design. Since then, over 150 workshops were taught in seventeen Brazilian states and abroad.
After the first five years, Tipocracia grew into multiple educational activities, from documentary screenings to exhibits, kids' workshops, and over a dozen conferences on typography. This exhibition displays some of the posters commissioned/designed to celebrate the project’s anniversary over the years.
After moving to Madison, I got involved with the making of typographical murals: “Try A Little Tenderness” (2016) was designed with Cyla Costa and Jackson Alves as an homage to soul singer Otis Redding; “Better Together” (2018) was created with Flavia Zimbardi and Caetano Calomino; in 2020, the “Madison Mural” was designed with Liubov Szwako, and the “Truth Is Powerful,” an artwork envisioned by NY-based artist Jenny Holzer, was painted on the side of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art with the help of UW-Madison students.
