> (2 Feb) Here’s a fun project developed during the last couple of years. Logo and visual identity for CASA 1923, an ancestral townhouse, dated from 1923, recently renovated and a unique example of Art Nouveau in the city of Faro, Portugal. The architectural project by PAr intends to recover, restore, and expand the existing building, to recreate, redefine and innovate, adapting to new needs and circumstances. Finalist of the Archello Awards 2023. 



> (25 Jan) Dutch composer Jozef van Wissem visited Portugal for a mini-tour, and I had the chance to meet him for a few photo portraits. Be sure to listen to his extraordinaire new album “The Night Dwells In the Day”, and check his website for upcoming tour dates.
 




> (24 Dec) End of the year round-up with a few memorable covers. 2023 was an exciting and extremely busy year. I’m beyond grateful to all the clients, publishers, authors, art directors, and everyone in general who commissioned work and kept the wheel spinning. We’re ready for some more in 2024!


> (20 Jul) Cover design for the dark fantasy novel “A Lost Fire”, by Tiago Neves, based on an original oil painting. 
An icy and highly atmospheric story with lots of lore and mystery thrown into it. Perfect summer reading to chill one’s bones.  






> (10 Jul) XYZ Books 10th Anniversary Group Exhibition - “Too Much of a Good Thing”. Here’s a few shots taken by Anna Paganini.
Thank you to the XYZ Books team for the invitation.



> (24 Mar) Here’s a project I’m really proud of - two books of poetry and short prose by Kim Nierman Smith. “Park Parallel” and “The Boxed Garage”, both extraordinary. The two books can be read individually or as a companion to each other.
Kim’s poems are intimate yet speak to the shared experiences of life. As she writes, “I didn’t think I had it in me, but there it was.” This collection is a testament to the power of language to transform our circumstances into art.
Kim allowed me full creative freedom and I worked on some paintings that turned into these beautiful covers.
I highly recommend everyone to grab a copy and delve into it!



> (4 Jan) Happy new year! I take this opportunity to wish everyone an imaginative kick into 2023. Although I was silent for most of the past year, I’m proud to announce a new short-film and photo-novel are on the making, and I hope to share more concrete news about it really soon.
A warm thank you to all NM Design / Photos clients, friends and enthusiasts for keeping the flame burning.
Sincerely, Nuno 



> (14 Sep) Here are a few shots from a recent collaboration with NERVO, a Portuguese cultural magazine printed every four months, dedicated to contemporary poetry. It’s a pleasure to see my artworks associated with words, and for that I think Maria F. Roldão for her kind invitation.

> (22 Dec) We’re reaching the end of the year, and here are a few random projects that somehow didn’t get shown here.
We'll do our best to keep this news section running in 2022. Meanwhile, be sure to follow on instagram @bookcoversdesign and @nmoreira
Happy holidays everyone! 



> (25 Nov) Este fim-de-semana realiza-se a Feira do Fotolivro de Lisboa.
De 26 a 28 de Novembro, no IPCI (Av. Conde Valbom). Os meus livros podem ser encontrados no Espaço dos Autores.
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This weekend the Lisbon Photobook Fair takes place.
From the 26th to the 28th of November, at IPCI (Av. Conde Valbom). My books can be found at the Author’s Corner.




 

> (5 Oct) ONLY 10 COPIES LEFT of my photobook SHE LOOKS INTO ME available through my website.
Who wants a copy? I’m attaching a small unique print to go along with these final books and I’ll be happy to sign them for you. Shipping worldwide.
If you’re interested please head on to: nmphotos.org, or follow this direct link to order.
Thank you all in advance, I can assure you new works are in the making.

Limited Edition of 200 copies
84 pages, open spine paperback with flaps
Insert with text by Adolfo Luxúria Canibal in English / Portuguese
Foreword by M.F. Sullivan and afterword by Jesse Freeman
30 Euros (includes shipping worldwide)



> (17 Sep) Book cover artwork and design (based on original collage) for Chris William’s “Antibody”. 



> (1 Jul) On the 10th and 11th of July we’ll be present at Feira Gráfica Lisboa 2021 to sell books, limited editions and special prints. If you’re in Lisbon be sure not to miss it! 




> (10 May) Experiência muito enriquecedora de participação na primeira edição do Mercado Pla’Arte. Um obrigado a todos os que apareceram e compraram livros, prints e edições limitadas. O saldo foi muito positivo, alargou-se a rede de contactos e sinergias, e principalmente foi bom trocar ideias e conhecer pessoas genuinamente interessadas em ver coisas novas. Parabéns à organização.  
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Very enriching experience of participation in the first edition of Mercado Pla’Arte. Thank you to everyone who showed up and bought books, prints and limited editions. The balance was very positive, the network of contacts and synergies was expanded and it was mainly good to exchange ideas and meet people genuinely interested in seeing new things. Congratulations to the organization.


> (26 Feb) Book design (cover + interior typesetting) for Anthony J. Alexandre poetry anthology “More Than That”. Available on paperback, hardcover and ebook.




> (20 Jan) Complete book design (cover + interior with pictures) for Kelly Laguerre’s poetry collection “Too Late”.
Available on paperback / ebook.



> (18 Dec) Book cover + interior design of "Ékleipsis" by Tamel Wino. 
Available on paperback / ebook.
Cover based on original hand-made collage.




> (9 Nov) Morreu ontem, Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas. A minha sentida homenagem em forma de lembrança.
Durante a fase de edição do meu livro SHE LOOKS INTO ME levei uma maquete à procura de opinião ao mestre surrealista Cruzeiro Seixas. Com 97 anos de experiência calculei que seria a pessoa (viva, pelo menos) que melhor me poderia aconselhar sobre o que tinha em mãos. O mestre recebeu-me no seu quarto, na Casa do Artista, e ao olhar para as imagens no livro disse-me que "eram bonitas, com muita sensibilidade" e que não havia muito mais que pudesse acrescentar. Deu-me alguns conselhos e desejou-me boa sorte com a publicação do livro. Disse-me que se quisesse podia usar a sua poesia livremente nos meus livros, juntamente com as minhas imagens. Ofereceu-me de seguida um volume assinado da sua obra poética o qual li por completo nessa mesma noite. Disse-me algo simples mas que pela forma como me olhou e se expressou na altura me marcou: "o bom trabalho não pode ser apressado. Precisa de tempo. Volte.”. Disse que nos deveríamos encontrar outra vez e agradeceu-me sempre todas as visitas. Tive 3 encontros com o mestre durante a feitura do livro, e tal como me aconteceu há alguns anos atrás quando visitei Yoshito Ohno (filho de Kazuo Ohno) no seu atelier no Japão, senti que tinha estado na presença de uma pessoa sábia e que as pessoas sábias são generosas e grande parte das vezes se encontram muito sozinhas.
Das vezes que me encontrei com Cruzeiro Seixas fui sempre bem recebido e tratado de forma cordial. Contou-me imensas histórias sobre Cesariny, de quem falava de forma claramente apaixonada. Falou-me das dificuldades de ser artista, das vezes que a sua obra foi roubada ou que foi enganado. Mostrou-me fotografias em África e da medalha atribuída por Cavaco Silva com alguma displicência. Mostrou-me as suas obras espalhadas pelo quarto e falou-me do desenho na parede de António Maria Lisboa.
Com o avançar da idade tinha imensa dificuldade em ler e escrever, mas não em contar histórias. Uma das vezes pediu-me que lhe lesse o correio que se encontrava em cima da mesa. Foi uma experiência diferente, ter um poeta a ouvir-me com extrema atenção a ler cartas pessoais de velhos amigos.
Num dos dias, ao fotografar o mestre, disse-lhe que ainda mostrava ter energia e bom aspecto. Ele retorquiu de maneira evidentemente atrevida dizendo que boa figura tinha eu. Sorri e expliquei que onde me sentia melhor era mesmo atrás da câmara.
Acabei por não usar as palavras do mestre Cruzeiro Seixas em SHE LOOKS INTO ME por achar que não se enquadravam com o corpo de trabalho que tinha em mãos, mantém-se porém uma profunda admiração pela pessoa e pela obra.
Em jeito de despedida, deixo um excerto de um poema do livro que me foi oferecido:

"Tenho frio
e imploro que me cubram com o dilúvio
ao som de trombetas exacerbadas:
que me cubram a mim e ao eco,
e à memória de tudo isto.
Estou ainda aqui,
e vejo
como um cego vê o mar.”



> (29 Oct) Book design for Anne-Tamar Morency, "If Saturn Itself Could Cry", a collection of poems.
Available on paperback / Ebook through Amazon.
Cover artwork based on original hand-made collage.





> (28 Sep) On creativity, childhood, and ideas - an interview for Black Flowers.



> (24 Sep) Book design for Ryan J. Kemp "Returning Home: A Collection of Poems From Around the World".
Available on paperback through Amazon.
Cover artwork based on original painting.






> (14 Sep) Book design for Chelsea Reidy "The Brightest Darkness: A Journey into Bipolar Disorder".
Available on paperback and Ebook through Amazon.
Cover artwork based on original hand-made collage.





> (13 May) Since last year I’ve been doing several visual studies using print gravure. More precisely, linogravure.
I’ve selected a few prints from the archive and I’m now selling these artist proofs (AP) in an edition of 5 each.
Gravure on japanese calligraphy paper mounted on 150 gms black paper. Size 29,7x42 cm.
120 Euros each print, shipping included worldwide.

1. The universe is indifferent
2. The convergence of shadows
3. The voice, the song, the whisper
4. Murmuring echoes

Please contact me for more information or visit the shop for other artworks.



> (9 Mar) I am pleased to announce that my new artist book is now available in an edition of only 50 copies, numbered, signed and all produced manually.
"ERRATA.” is a photographic essay created in 2017 and which now sees the light of day accompanied by a beautiful text in prose by David Soares, which matches in an exemplary way with the nature of these images making me very satisfied with the final outcome.
"ERRATA.” is, in a very succinct manner, a book about books that pays homage to the labyrinthine and inexhaustible sense of imagination and dream.
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ERRATA.
Directed and shot by Nuno Moreira
Text by David Soares (Portuguese / English)
Actors: Marta Barahona Abreu, Miguel Sá Nogueira
Book design by Nuno Moreira
Format: 140x205mm
Pages: 52
Hand bound (french stitching) in black cardboard box with front / back embossed title
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40 Euros - (shipping worldwide)
or send a direct message by email to: info@nmdesign.org
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"ERRATA", we are all pages in a book. March 2020



> (6 Mar) Bellow is a picture someone took of me, with a silly smile, talking with photography students and peers at Escola Profissional Magestil, in Lisbon, yesterday.
I was invited by a dear old friend for a lecture on the topic of “the international career of a photographer” and since I don’t feel full authority to speak about this particular subject I’ve decided to instead talk about my experience in art residencies and collaborations with other artists as a way of stepping out of your geographic zone and pushing ones work out there.
All in all, it’s nearly 10 years since I’ve stopped teaching but it’s always fun speaking in public and even though most students are shy to pose direct questions I prefer to address them as colleagues breaking the usual social hierarchy of teacher-student so prevalent in general education.



> (3 Feb) I am floored to have just found out that the great Yoshito Ohno passed away on January 8th 2020.
I had the privilege of spending a memorable afternoon with this utterly kind man in the summer of 2011. It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. Yoshito greeted me – by all means a perfect stranger - at his home, showing me the studio where he and his father Kazuo Ohno rehearsed for years and taught Butoh to students from Japan and all over the world. The story of meeting Yoshito is part of a larger picture of my life and Butoh is perhaps one of the catalysts for me to travel to Japan just after the big earthquake of 2011. I knew all along I wanted to pay a visit to Ohno and listen in first-hand about his father and what Butoh represented to the people who started this art/dance movement. I’m not going to delve into explaining what Butoh is because there’s enough information out there but I am going to share what I wrote on my diary that day and represents best the immediate impression I had of Yoshito, being this my small gesture of appreciation for his time and grace.

From my diary:
"12/09/11, KODS – Kazuho Ohno Dance Studios.
I just had the most sincere and humbling experience of my life with Kazuho Ohno’s son, Yoshito. He received me in his home, gave me some slippers to put on and showed me the studio where he taught classes and rehearsed. In the opposite wall of the studio there were books piled and he showed me some while we talked about his shows and about his father and Hijikata. He had fond memories of both. He showed me lots of pictures, memorabilia and danced for me for a while; I took photos and realised this was a unique moment. After the performance he asked for my home address and we took a picture together. As a gift, he gave me a book about his fathers’ farewell performance. I felt moved by it all. Afterwards, we went to his room and we sat to have a beer together. We looked in each others’ eyes for a while. Talked about Butoh (in Japan and Europe). We just sat, ate crackers and shared silence. He told me I gave him renewed energies for his next performance. I felt him truly there - present. A very spiritual and inspiring person. Yoshito was worried about Japan and his family after the situation with the quake. I wished him and Japan all the best. It depends on us all. We understood with very little english and my insignificant japanese. I firmly shook his hand and thanked him and then left towards the station. A true human being. I feel grateful and overjoyed. Crying. Learned and will remember this is what matters."

I think about Yoshito often.



> (10 Jan) Exhibition of She Looks into Me at Centro Cultural de Cascais / Fundação D. Luis I.
Featuring images taken from the book with the same title, along with a new video-installation. At the foyer of the Museum the visitor will find preliminary works (drawings, collage, etc) that served as guiding references for the materialization of this project. The last copies of the book can be acquired at the museum shop.
Centro Cultural de Cascais / Fundação D. Luis I, Avenida Rei Humberto II de Itália, Nº16, 2750-800 Cascais, Portugal
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 AM to 18.00 PM
The exhibition can be visited until 23rd of February 2020



> (17 Dec) Book design for “Norwegian Sky 9”, the new photobook by Arlindo Pinto, published by Huggly Books in an edition of 100 copies.
Text by Fernando Sobral and Arlindo Pinto in English and Portuguese.  Always a pleasure working for talented friends.



> (29 Oct) Opening next Friday at 16 PM in Setúbal - The Nature of this Room - on display at Lapso Galeria until December 21st.⁠
A very special installation-project developed with Rosanna Helena Bach and curated by Sofia Steinvorth during the past 6 months.
From the press-release:
“Parting from two site-specific installations and a series of photographic experiments, the gallery turns into an immersive experience, in which the space itself - its rooms, shapes, walls, columns and windows - becomes a part of the artists' pursuits. Their pieces seem to merge with the surrounding architecture and to expand into the space contained within it. The apparent borders between works and space, graspable object and aether, blur. The gallery reveals itself as a liminal realm, a transitory, in-between state characterized by indeterminacy, the potential for destabilization and the possibility for transformation.”



> (23 Aug) When one leasts expects the most exciting comissions come along. This time a cover design for a complex thriller entitled “The Fallen”, second novel by UK’s author Martin Hyde. Instead of going for an easy approach, depicting literally a person falling, a typography composition did the trick quite nicely this time.
“The Fallen” will be available on paperback and Kindle on November 2019.



> (4 Jun) Here’s another new book cover design. This one for the motivational speaker on Autism and mental health, Russell Lehmann.
A powerful first-hand account using prose and poetry to face autism heads-on and achieving personal growth and recognition in return.
The concept for this cover had to be strong and personal, therefore it derived from an original collage which was then modified by altering the silhouette to Russell’s very own torso, a somewhat symbolic gateway representing the interaction with the external world and the complex mechanisms of the inner world. 



> (21 May) Book design, sequencing and image editing for the Icelandic photographer Agnieszka Sosnowska catalogue “Myth of a Woman”; now on exhibition at the at the Reykjavík National Museum of Iceland.
Agnieszka’s work is phenomenal, and besides being a pleasure getting to know her better, it was a thrill to work closely together designing this catalogue for her exhibition. 
I urge everyone to check her work and get a copy of the book, it's well worth it in your bookshelf/collection.



> (19 May) Out today, the first installment in the Disgraced Martyr Trilogy,“The Hierophant’s Daughter” (Book I).
A pleasure to design these covers for the ever-wonderful M.F. Sullivan!



Book cover design for “Side Effects”, poems by J.M. Wright; artwork based on an original painting/collage.



> (8 May) “She Looks into Me” exhibition at Museu Municipal de Faro (Praca Dom Afonso III 14, 8000-149 Faro), including a new video-installation.
From 11th of May until 7th of July 2019. Facebook event here.



Also in Faro, located in the southest region of Portugal, I was invited (again) to participate in Algarve Design Meeting (ADM) 2019.
This year not with a lecture but with a small video-installation, entitled ERRATA.
If you’re visiting Algarve be sure to go see their exhibitions and lectures.




Visual identity for PAINTED BLIND PUBLISHING, an American publisher of psychedelic fiction, from my good friend and author extraordinaire M. F. Sullivan. Be sure to check their forthcoming trilogy - The Disgraced Martyr - really wonderful stuff.



> (23 Dec) SEASON'S GREETINGS
Quick message to wish all friends, clients and suppliers wonderful holidays and may 2019 be a brave and inspirational year to you all.
We at NM Design / Photos hope to work with you again in the next year and together help you achieve your goals.
In an age where we’re surrounded by lack of focus and tolerance towards difference, I sincerely hope 2019 is a year where both artists and patreons attempt to bring into light the most basic universal values of straightforwardness, compassion and camaraderie.
Thank you once again to all those who supported my artist work by buying books, photos, prints, coming to the exhibitions, lectures, or simply trusting me and my partners to handle your very own books and graphic projects.
See you in 2019! Nuno