Daniel Martins

(PT. 1992) Artist and designer dedicated to exploring new media, conceptualising and creating new visual solutions, combining design acessibility with contemporary art thinking.

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Vasco Le [TRV003]
Graphic Design, Digipack, 2021

Graphic design for the physical reissue of Vasco Lé’s debut album You Know, Everybody Wanna Say "I Do This, I Do That". Everyone Acts Like They're Hard as Shit But Just Stop, the third release by turva.

Red Mercury
Installation, 2020
Teatro Municipal do Porto

Digital (CGI) environment for Red Mercury, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha's installation at Rivoli.
Photos by José Caldeira & Renato Cruz Santos

"An oracular monodrama based on a mineral-organic testimony. Red Mercury is an acoustic and visual journey following the delirium of the extraction of precious metals through the testimony of one of its most elusive icons, red mercury. This monologue is conduced by the artificial speech of a synthetic voice, a LED wall vampire — he who sucks the blood of the Earth — a cluster of robot lights and a CGI landscape, at a threshold where each contaminate the other, revealing informations through a multi channel sound system, evoking their crossed paths as well as the many stories, myths and conspiracy theories surrounding them."

Watch the teaser here

Lithium Blast
Record, Graphic Design, Artwork, 2020

3d Artwork and design for HHY & The Kampala Unit's vinyl release Lithium Blast, released by NyegeNyege Tapes.
w/ Joana Pestana

Wandering on Prediction
Virtual Experience, 2020

Interactive one-person virtual experience (for Mac & Windows) commissioned by Joana Pestana for the online exhibition Scrolling the Arcane at www.scrollingthearcane.com.

Interactive virtual experience. In it, the individual wanders and explores an arid reality, while holding an incandescent mobile phone. His perception is conditioned by a camera with constrained movement. Reflecting on our coexistence with different prediction systems, Wandering On Prediction uses predictive text as a tool for building narratives and for virtual navigation. To train that tool, several texts from astrology websites and apps were analysed. The resulting sentences offer guidance, suggesting the “best” path to follow and making the mobile phone a guide for a spiritual exodus.

Sound by Luís Neto & Pedro Pimentel

Rhubarb
Type Design, 2020

Typeface comissioned by Gonçalo Lamas for his performance Boeing 737-800 in F#minor, presented at Culturgest Porto (PT). Soon available for purchase.

LOVE/DEAD
Record, Design, Photography, 2020

Record design and product photography of Olan Monk's album LOVE/DEAD.
Released by C.A.N.V.A.S.

Everything Is Fine
Installation, 2020

Everything is fine represents the ethical and material destruction, the lost myth of another reality. A denial of a past guilt, inherent to an uncertain truth with hectic spectrum. The heavy character of the physical space is built as a link between the spectator and the conscious and inorganic after life. The viewer brings with it his duty and incorporates the metaphysic and vindictive exoneration from the previous, in an attempt of liberating the buried and sacrificed consciousness.

Sound by Luís Neto

Shelf Life
Tape, Design, Photography, 2020

Record design and product photography of Elvin Brandhi's tape Shelf Life.
Released by C.A.N.V.A.S.

Shell From Oceanic
Video, 3D, Animation, 2019

Music video for Intermission, taken from Shell From Oceanic’s How to Let Go album.
Color Grading by Bianca Martins.

Watch the full video here

Contemporânea Magazine
Illustration, 2018

Illustration for the first printed issue of Contemporânea Magazine entitled Crónicas de Arte (Art Chronicles) dedicated to the artistic dynamic of Porto (Portugal).

A group of artists, were invited to create a representation of the city in antithesis to the daily dynamics that they're currently living in, based on their personal and private memory.

Online editorial here

Flying Island
Website, 2017

Design and development of Flying Island's portfolio website.
flyingisl.uk

Sara*Maia AW17/18
Video, 2017

Video for fashion designer Sara Maia AW 17/18. Backstage and catwalk footage of Portugal Fashion’s Bloom event.

Watch the full video here
w/ Helena Estrela

K L A R SS17
Video, 2016

Video for fashion brand K L A R Spring/Summer 17.
Backstage and catwalk footage of Portugal Fashion’s Bloom event.

Watch the full video here
w/ Nuno Maio

K L A R AW16
Video, 2016

Video for fashion brand K L A R Autumn/Winter 16.
From S V (K L) Ä R's live vj projections.
Backstage and catwalk footage recorded at Portugal Fashion.

Watch the full video here
w/ Nuno Maio

S V ( K L ) Ä R
Performance, Installation, 2016
Passos Manuel (Porto, PT)

Collaboration between SVÄR and fashion designers K L A R for AW16 after show party.

Wood structure (4m x 4,5m) above audience chairs; 4 Neons (red, pink, purple); 2 Dv Camcorders connected to 7 TV's; 4 Cymbal stands; Live VJ Projection with KLAR AW16 show footage; Live Music/DJ.

w/ Nuno Maio
Photos by Inês Silva

In Frugal Existence
Video, 2016

Video teaser for In Frugal Existence by Live Low, remixed by Challenger.
Self-initiated project.

Flyer for Happiness in Pomar, by Daniel Martins

Poster for Happiness in Pomar, by Daniel Martins

Poster for Happiness in Pomar, by Daniel Martins, at 'Design By Porto, Porto By Design'

Happiness In Pomar
Poster, Identity, 2015

Identity for the exhibition A Felicidade em Júlio Pomar. The exhibition gathered works from the collection of Millennium BCP and Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar, with the curatorship of Pedro Faro and Sara Antónia Matos.

Poster presented at the exhibitions Design by Porto, Porto by Design (CTT Palace) and Design da Cultura, Cultura do Design (Porto's City Hall) PT 2016-2017.

w/ Nuno Maio

EXO
Installation, 2015
CAAA — Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura
Guimarães, Portugal

We were invited to Louro e Bambu — segundo acto, figuração do exótico, an exhibition curated by Luis Nunes, Luis Albuquerque and Valdívia Tolentino to make an art piece around the concept of exotic, incorporating light.

The exotic, as something strange, from the unknown, raises the question of what is the state of the metamorphosis of the concept itself. In ‘life-as-we-know-it’, the barrier between the organic, the artificial and true, will become more diffuse and abstract, making us wonder about life as an abstraction, the possibility of it being artificial or inhuman, and the ‘light’ as the essential power for it´s own legitimacy.

Featured on ofluxo.net
w/ Nuno Maio

SEM Painel
Poster, 2015

Poster for SEM exhibition at Painel gallery.
Sem is a collaboration between Joana Patrão, Graça Fernando, Alexandra Martins and me — a collective exhibition. The different pieces are conceptually connected and explore various formats and technics — metal engraving, silkscreen, sound.

ARRAY Magazine
Print, 2015

Curatorial 3d art magazine showing a wide range of the best digital works between 2008 and 2015 made by plastic artists, illustrators, designers, photographers, and many others.
Thanks to the artists for letting me use their work pieces.

Save
Installation, 2015
Porto's City Hall, Portugal

Art piece for y[why?], an exhibition with portuguese artists and designers from the Y generation (millennials or generation of Internet).

The Internet is the primary source of prosthetic knowledge, where any person could acquire instant knowledge of something, any subject, event or character, in an easy and approachable way. (...) The practical and sociological magnitude of internet is completely undeniable. Save appears as an analogy to the 'time capsule' concept as an enhancement to the importance of the Internet since the firts modems, relating to the technological future of next generations.

Photos by João Drumond & Catarina Oliveira;
Curated by Drumond Frutuoso
w/ Nuno Maio