Portucalio Blog

Inspired by hand-painted Portuguese tiles January, a sea of tiles. Inspired by hand-painted Portuguese tiles we tried to convey its non-perfect and yet humanistic details while highlighting, here and there, individual tile pieces that come together as little geometric fishes.

And back in stock. Hey Everyone, We are finally back in stock, just in time for Christmas 🎄 This time around we decided to print in Prague. Our friends at Princo Print shop liked so much our product that they end up helping us with a special deal. In exchange, we thought it would be cool to show our love with a dedicated and summer-like illustration at the end of the calendar (for those times when we long for summer). ...

The name Sketching Tools and set up Obstacles Advantages Printing To be continued Footnotes Hello friends, today I thought I could take you through the whole creative process in creating Portucalio. I will be showing all the different phases and the obstacles we have faced so far. This intends to be a simple and concise article but, hopefully, packed with a lot of interesting information. The name First Veronika and I started by exchange a couple of ideas in person, written on paper and using a synced folder with notes and images. ...

Portuguese culture week in Hradec Králové Join us at the opening of Portuguese culture week in Hradec Králové! Come to see Camões house band and take with you a piece of Portugal. Portucalio calendar will be available during the whole week at a special price just for this occasion. Facebook event in Hradec Králové From 17/09/2018 - 21/09/2018 Opening at 16:00 Knihovna města Hradec Králové Wonkova 1262/1a, 500 02 Hradec Králové Sep 17 Opening Stay tuned for more updates! ...

Hello world! This is our first post. Hi and welcome to Portucalio’s blog! We, Pedro and Veronika, are the faces behind this exciting project. Read more about us. Here we plan to write informally about all things Portucalio. We intend to share with you, announcements and other practical information while showing you how this came to be and all the challenges and rewards we have encountered along the way. Thus the blog is structured in two main sections ...

Ode to the libre community We, Pedro Silva and Veronika Horska, hereby show our appreciation to everyone in the libre-software community: developers, contributors and users. Moreover we would like to express our support to Inkscape1 and Scribus2, both used in the design of Portucalio. Roses are red, Violets are blue, sugar is sweet, And so are you. Portucalio is still quite young (we just launched it!) and so it’s too earlier to say if it’s a success or not. ...