Speaker Jade Piaia

Jade Samara Piaia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Visual Design Research Lab (LabVisual) at the University of São Paulo in the School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU USP), Brazil. Piaia has a background in graphic design, and both a master’s and PhD in Visual Arts from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) Art Institute. Piaia’s research project is titled, “The typographic repertoire of Tipografia Hennies: contributions to São Paulo city graphic memory,” which was supervised by Dr. Priscila Lena Farias. Paia’s interests are in typeface, print culture, design history, information design, and visual communication.