Via It’s Nice That we are referred to the repository, living archive of vernacular graphic design curated by one Alagoas native, Victor Yves, who began his collection after encountering the paucity of visual archives of Brazil’s northeast and resolved to create his own. The personal project of gathering “eye exercises” 
(exercícios para os olhos) gleaned from posters, prints, pamphlets and other ephemera informed by naïve- and folk-art soon developed into an academic obsession by its own inertia of filling what would become an obvious gap in the region’s creative heritage, amassing a sizeable portfolio of influential contributors whose credit was missing from the national canon. There are over five thousand (and growing) artefacts to peruse in the gallery, each with a short biography of its provenance and artist plus a selection of other exhibits with similar energy.
synchronoptica
one year ago: an incredible Trump rally (with synchronopticæ) plus a creepy featurette
fourteen years ago: adventures in Ireland
sixteen years ago: blogging-block