Archipelago Dada transforms a typeface into a cinematic, living organism. Rooted in the volcanic geography of the Azores, the project merges Dadaism, Futurism, and Visual Poetry into a motion-first narrative that challenges the boundaries of typography.

Rather than treating type as static design, I extended César Martiniano’s typeface into a shifting landscape of movement, where each glyph breathes, collapses, and erupts like the islands themselves. The piece is both a cultural homage and an exploration of how typography can exist beyond the page, as performance, as environment, as emotional expression.

The project achieved global resonance: shortlisted by Communication Arts, featured twice on Behance, and viewed 18,000+ times across Behance and Vimeo. It exemplifies how type and motion can evolve into narrative artforms, blurring the line between literature, cinema, and design.