A small press in Porto

Eleven people, two platen presses and a cutting table in the Miguel Bombarda arts quarter.

A workbench with a cutting mat, tape, a ruler and cutting tools under warm light

Inês Barros and Tomás Reis started the workshop in 2014, after ten years of printing cartons they knew would be in the bin by lunchtime.

They kept the dies, dropped the ink and built every job since around one question: what can the board say on its own?

We stopped asking what colour a box should be. Now we ask where the light should land.

Inês Barros, co-founder
Worn wooden printing type, letters raised on their blocks