hello. this is büro™

Critical Software is a company settled in Coimbra with offices in Lisbon, Porto (Portugal), San Jose (USA), Southampton (UK), Bucharest (Roménia) and São Paulo (Brasil) speccialized on critical software development with clients such as NASA, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) and IBM.

This was the first effort on designing their web presence that will endure during the current year of 2009.

Finally we give you our new website: BOOM|STUDIOS, the famous studio owned by Pedro Abrunhosa. It includes our very own Buro360 panorama engine.

3 out of the 10 identities included on the Logounge5 (Rockport) are featured on the Selected Logos / Book V Section. Sweeet ;-)

We just did the website revamp along with Liz-Online for Profitinta. There's a cool color simulator and some neat flash animations over a hybrid based website. This is the first of a series of websites for the Grupo Lena that we'll be doing this year. You can kill the humming bird or the butterfly if you try hard.

Great news, LogoLounge the incontornable logo leading Identity book series from Rockport (currently on their 5th volume) are building up a new Series of thematic books called Master Series. They’ve selected 3 of our logos to be included on the first of seven books -  Initials & Crests.

The funny thing is that the first logo was refused by our client moonspell and I still think it’s a best version of the current Moonagram they use, and the second was part of a public competition for Biblioteca Eduardo Lourenço that we didn’t won. Sweet denials ;D

There will be 7 volumes on the Master Series:

• Initials & Crests
• Typography
• People
• Animals, Birds and Mythology
• Shapes and Symbols
• Nature and Food
• Arts and Culture (including transportation, sports and architecture)

It took us a lot of time and effort to unleash the Infernet V6 (6th version of moonspell.com official website, 12 years after the first version on may 1996 that I did on Photofinish + Photoshop 3). After thinking on several ways on how I should/would do this, I’ve decided just to leave the link and the people’s names involved. There are too many details that you won’t discover on a first visit.

O site MOONSPELL.com foi nomeado na shortlist dos Prémios Briefing de 2008 na categoria de Web Site.

We had our Terras do Foro packaging picked by Lovely Package. Sweet!

We have the excruciating pleasure to have 10 (ten, dez) logos to be included in LogoLounge Volume 5 (the best-selling series of design books on logo design in the Rockport line) which will be published and released in June of 2009.

The judging was extremely competitive as over 33.000 logos were entered for consideration, and 2.000 were hand picked by Andreas Karl of Karl Design, Von Glitschka of Glitschka Studios, Michelle Sonderegger of Design Ranch, Sarah Moffat of Turner Duckworth, Jamie Koval of VSA Partners, Vince Frost of Frost Design, Bronwen Rautenbach of The Brand Union, and Alex de Janosi of Lippincott.

Having 10/2000 featured with this context is mindblowing and a nice surprise!

Cow Parade is cool, Goat Parade is awsome (Festim de Chanfana!!!!!) ;D. Artwork and paintings by Margarida Reis - Bürocratik.

OMG… This is 5xbüro. Bürocratik has 5 entries (on 5 diferent categories) that made it to the finals on IDENTITY.RU BEST OF BEST 08… This means we are the Portuguese Design Bureau with more Entries that made it to the final. Mybrand has 3 and Label Brand Studio another 3. Congrats for those 2 other companies! We are… on vibrant mode, exploding with joy! HELL YEAH!

INTERNATIONAL JUDGES: Steff Geissbuhler (USA) Shigeo Fukuda (Japan) Miles Newlyn (UK) Garry Emery (Australia) Afonso de Souza (Portugal) Stefan Weil (Germany) Brigitte Evrard (Belgium) Alex de Janosi (USA) Vanja Cuculic (Croatia) Olga Parzhitskaya (Ukraine) Elie Papiernik (France) Michel de Boer (Netherlands).

We have 6 bürobags included. SWEET!

Bürocratik has a selected work on the branding finalist category (Biomondego) on the ED-Awards 2007. Yes!