Centro de Biotecnologia 30 anos

Editorial Design, 2013

Marking 30 years of the Centro de Biotecnologia at Instituto Butantan meant turning three decades of dense scientific work, including vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and genomics, into a printed piece that would still read as credible to the researchers it documented, while working as a keepsake for a wider audience.

A cover pairs a restrained serif logotype with a blurred field of journal text and a photograph of a lab vial, setting the tone for the book. Inside, each research area, such as Biofármacos or Genômica, opens on a teal band with a pull-quote and a boxed headline, then settles into a disciplined two-column grid of body text, captioned lab photography, and small-set bibliography. One divider spread breaks from the grid entirely, repeating the word "associações" across a letter grid, with a line traced through it like a data curve, pattern doing the work of an illustration.

The finished book holds the rigor of an institutional record, with citations, patent notes, and captioned specimens, inside a consistent editorial system, so 30 years of research reads as a designed publication rather than a bound report.