Porto

Stories in Porto

Memories, declutter, home

28 kilograms.

Porto — Twenty eight kilograms. That’s 62 pounds, or 4.4 stone. It doesn’t seem like much, if we’re talking about twenty eight kilograms of cement, or even twenty eight kilograms of wood for the fireplace. I...

education, Design

A tour of ESAD

by Simon Collison

Porto — In May 2012, I was invited to speak at Matosinhos School of Art and Design (also known simply as ESAD) in Porto, Portugal. An afternoon of progressive and theoretical lectures about web design had bee...

Grandfathers

Not this soap.

by Dani Z

Porto — I don’t have very many clear images of my Portuguese grandfather. I remember white teeth closing around the end of a cigar, a pipe, cigarettes. He was nicotine and silence, a man constructed more from...