Raquel Soares Freitas

Raquel Soares Freitas is an enthusiastic designer and creative thinker who specialises in print and editorial design, and enjoys creating for design disciplines such as book making, abstract work and typography. Most of her work explores the beauty of typography and it's legibility. Her work communicates a variety of topics, for example, education, social change and interactivity. She particularly enjoys designing for audiences that can interact and debate through her work.

She has worked in collaboration with Monotype, D&AD and Creative Conscience and has experience in short freelance work for a charity’s social media platform and for individuals such as wedding designs. She enjoys working in teams, collaborating and sharing ideas and is open minded to new working methods, always wanting to push her skills further.

By revisiting old memories 'Longing' creates the desire to be in that place in time again, sweet nostalgia. Typewriters link to this idea that the past can’t be erased yet it can be cherished. 'Longing' explores contexts about childhood memories by using a typewriter. The book is filled with content set in 3 chapters which describes what childhood is like; innocence, curiosity and adventure. Each chapter explores personal childhood memories along with poetry, pages of relatives’ memories of myself as a child and humorous inserts of my dairy. It is a celebration of memories and typography. This project was a great way to self-reflect especially when creating this during a pandemic which was therapeutic.

Line x Time is an interactive doodle book that explores participants thinking processes, with time constraints by creating a continuous line within a dotted grid. The book is split into 3 chapters, exploring different time restrictions and the different use of pen thicknesses; 20 seconds with a thin pen, 1 minute with a medium pen and 3 minutes with a thick pen. The conclusion to this activity was that many participants were able to take more risks when they were less aware of the time constraints but would often panic towards the end. The books text inserts were produced on a UV printer with the use of neutral coloured papers from G.F Smith.