Revista S A

Revista S+A

Client.
Saraiva+Associados
 Making an impact. Corporate Communication and Reporting. Editorial. Visual Identity. Real Estate.

Crafting a magazine to enhance S+A's distinctive character and work.

Revista S A

Designing Life Magazine is an annual publication by the world-renowned architecture studio S+A that showcases its latest projects and features essays on crucial industry issues. We've been developing the latest issues - in collaboration with the S+A team - creating the concept and editorial design.

Challenge.

In 2022, S+A invited us to create the concept and editorial design of Designing Life Magazine, referring to the 2021/2022 issues. Later, the invitation was extended to the 2022/2023 and 2024/2025 issues.

The challenge was to create an impact and give a global vision to each issue, comprising the portfolio, essays on crucial industry issues, and the character of S+A. The magazines are distributed to the main stakeholders of a studio among the most prominent architectural firms worldwide.

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2024/2025 issue.

S+A launched its new positioning: Comfortable Architecture. For the Designing Life Magazine, we decided to enhance the concept by pairing opposites. This issue consisted of an “(Un)Comfortable” envelope with a dark and harsh finish to pay tribute to the discomfort of the creative process and to make the contrast with the softness and clean design of the magazine itself, embodying the “Comfortable Architecture”.

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"It's not just what we do. It's how we do it. It's creating a distinctive concept. And then implementing it."

Miguel Saraiva, founder & CEO of S+A

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2023/2024 issue.

"Humanology" was the concept developed to position S+A as an enabler of humanisation, from valuing the team and partners to integrating society and living in private and public spaces. Since the pandemic changed the notion of space - houses have become too small and cities too big - it was essential to re-centre on people, tailoring private and public spaces to each person's needs and potential.

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2021/2022 issue.

The concept developed was "Unleashed," reflecting, on the one hand, the dimension of S+A around the world and, on the other hand, the necessary redefinition of the relationship between interior and exterior space in architecture due to the global pandemic.

A silver involucre intended to be torn enhanced the "Unleashed" concept and celebrated the atelier's 25th anniversary.

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“It was an honour to have developed this edition of Designing Life and a special opportunity to get to know S+A and understand some of the reasons that make the atelier a global reference. At a time of so much immateriality, it was also a challenge to return to a traditional editorial project. Seeing it in print made us rediscover the impact of the physical object in all its exuberance: the magazine was even wrapped in a tear-off cover."

Duarte Vilaça, Partner at Born

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