Diogo Cachão Batalha

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Projects top to bottom
EIGENDOM IS DIEFSTAL
Chasing Remnants
Now I am Become ... [Redacted]
Strategy Wear: Aprons & Pockets
The Trenches
What Legacy?
On Adapting to a Changing Climate
PC Burial Ritual
Wonder Book of Knowledge
Animated Type
0519
0519: selected stills
Chasing Remnants: selected stills

Bio 
Diogo is a multidisciplinary, but mainly graphic designer currently studying at  ArtEZ University of the Arts. Diogo is particularly interested in book design, other printed matter, archiving and all things related to niche pockets of the internet, arts, music and fashion culture. 
Work 
Intern | Chemistry Publishing | 2021

Education 
Bachelor Graphic Design
ArtEZ University of the Arts | 2022-present
Bachelor Popular Culture 
Hanzehogeschool | 2021-2022
Mbo 4 Mediavormgeving
ROC Friese Poort | 2018-2021

Exhibitions 
MAFA 2024 | FOCUS Filmtheater, Arnhem
Affordances, Climate 2024 | Rozet, Arnhem
Lorem Ipsum Expo 2023 | MidWest, Amsterdam

EIGENDOM IS DIEFSTAL

Ongoing research project on how leftist political awareness can be spread through language, typography and usage of heraldic motifs. The heraldic motifs currently take a backseat to make place for explicit strong messaging while still taking this tradition that’s rooted in status and ownership and twisting it for leftist propaganda. In a western dominated world where fascism has been taking massive political wins, spreading awareness in the public space takes up an ever bigger role to drive political change.


RISO and digital print
Typeface(s): PP Editorial Sans, slightly altered

Chasing Remnants

Publication on the removal of graffiti in the public space in the city centre of Arnhem. The photographs and narrative explore the value in the act of making and removing graffiti as a sort of excavation-like process where removed pieces are uncovered as relics of time by exploring the city walls.


34 pages
Typeface(s): PicNic, Inter Regular/Bold
Paper: Muskat Brown,  Focus Book
Printing: Canon Upstairs
Red linen spine

Now I am Become ... [Redacted]

This book shows a database of Nuclear Bombs covering a variety of countries. It plays with the aspect of hiding and revealing information, giving a glimpse of the name designated to the bomb and what country it belongs to,
the reader is invited to engage with the book by folding out the signatures revealing more information as if it’s not for us to see what’s inside. The signatures and typographical lay out are inspired by classified documents while still trying to be a book first, rather than a folder of sorts.

272 pages
Typeface(s): PP Fraktion Mono, OT 2049
Paper: Holmen Trnd Vintage, Forever Grey
Printing: Canon Upstairs, RISO
Data: The Council on Strategic Risks’s 
           Nuclear Weapon Systems Project

Do-It-Together Strategy Wear: 
Aprons & Pockets

Made for and in collaboration with Sohyun “JEN” Yoon, Do-It-Together Strategy Wear: Aprons & Pockets, is part of JEN’s graduation project at the MA Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

Her recent project Strategy Wear: Care to Resist (2023) suggests an affirmative alternative in practising care for the self and others through DIY garment-making and community-building in response to the late capitalist demands such as productivity, individuality and beauty standards.



@komuitjenland | komuitjenland
71 pages
Typeface(s): Solide Mirage,
Miller Text, Helvetica Regular
Paper: Linen Press, Biotop

Author: Sohyun “JEN” Yoon
Design: Diogo Cachão Batalha
Printing: Canon Upstairs
Binding: Sohyun “JEN” Yoon

Self published, edition of 10

Exhibited and sold at Lorem Ipsum Expo 2023 
at MidWest, Amsterdam and 
BYOB Warehouse Market at Warehouse, Amsterdam

The Trenches

Publication on a collection of images of Italian golf clubs gathered using Google Earth. The book shows a variety of repetitive and sometimes rather strange shapes of mostly sand bunkers and makes space for other oddities and the surroundings of these mostly inaccessible clubs.


58 pages
Typeface(s): PP Supply Mono, Corbel
Paper: Holmen Trnd Vintage, Color Action
Printing: Canon Upstairs

What Legacy?

Series of three anthotype prints about the legacy of what humans leave behind on earth. The use of a natural printing process, leaving paper to be exposed with UV light for a prolonged period of time create vague visions of the remains of artworks found in the
Rijksmuseum Archive. These visions are made to remind us of the frailty of us humans and Earth. When society collapses due to climate disasters, so vanishes the worth of our legacy.


Paper: Picasso
Made with curcumin,
pigment found in tumeric
Duration of exposure: 4-6 hours

Exhibited at Rozet, Arnhem during 
Affordances: Climate exhibition

On Adapting to a Changing Climate

A collaboration with Jakub Chrenko 
and Jamila Alemi both in writing and design, 
On Adapting to a Changing Climate is a speculative research document on how different regions in the world might look after rapid rises of sea level and temperature around the world. The document is featured in the Affordances: Climate collective publication.

Typeface(s): Cascadia Mono, Helvetica
Typography: Diogo Cachão Batalha
Maps and 3D models: Jakub Chrenko
Stats and infographics: Jamila Alemi
Research: D, J & J

Exhibited at Rozet, Arnhem during 
Affordances: Climate exhibition

Animated Type (fictional)

Made during typography class, inspired by Xu Bing’s work Gravitational Arena and Dragonfly Eyes.

0519

A zine about Diogo’s hometown Dokkum. The zine is printed in black using a Risograph and covers a series of photographs taken in Dokkum. The zine was made during an internship at Chemistry Publishing.


@chemistry.publishing | Chemistry Publishing
Black RISO printed on leftover paper in the atelier
44 pages
Edition of 25

0519: selected stills

A selection of photographs featured in 0519.