Vai Vem is a publishing house dedicated to producing and publishing content in the fields of Design and Culture, with a focus on Research, Critique, Fiction and Project. Founded by Margarida Antunes and Pedro Mota, the publishing house is committed to supporting emerging and established authors, promoting creation from the Portuguese context and encouraging diverse ways of thinking about contemporaneity.
Livraria Térmita
Largo de Mompilher 5
R/C 4050-392 Porto
Livraria do Batalha
Praça da Batalha 47
4000-101 Porto
Matéria Prima
Rua Miguel Bombarda 23
24050-377 Porto
Livraria Snob [Brotéria]
Rua S. Pedro de Alcântara 3
1250-237 Lisboa
Livraria ZDB
Rua da Barroca 57
1200-049 Lisboa
STET – Livros & Fotografias
Rua Actor António Cardoso 12A
1900-011 Lisboa
Feira da Alegria
Jardins da Faculdade Belas-Artes, Porto
15-16 June 2024
Vai Vem x João Castro
Matéria Prima, Porto
23 May 2024
Feira do Livro de Arte
Centro Artes Visuais, Coimbra
18-19 May 2024
Vai Vem x Eva Gonçalves
Livraria STET, Lisboa
14 December 2023
Sprint Milano Art Book Fair
Spazio Maiocchi, Milão
25–26 November 2023
Apresentação Vai Vem
Livraria STET, Lisboa
14 October 2023
Etceteras: festival feminista
de design e edição
Casa Comum, Porto
5–7 October 2023
Vai Vem x Soraia Gomes Teixeira
Livraria Térmita, Porto
7 June 2023
Vai Vem x Marta Ramos
Vai Vem x Paulo Mariz
Biblioteca Prática, Porto
30 November 2022
Terms and conditions
PACK OF 2 BOOKS
[various authors]
"Enquanto se Azula Faz-se Pôr-do-Sol", João Castro
"A Escola Infinita" (2ª edição), Eva Gonçalves
"Uma Dança entre Duas Pedras e Uma Sombra", Marta Ramos
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
editing and design: Margarida Antunes and Pedro Mota
language: portuguese
November 2022 – May 2024
João Castro + Eva Gonçalves [SOLD OUT]
Eva Gonçalves + Marta Ramos [SOLD OUT]
João Castro + Marta Ramos [SOLD OUT]
while it blues it sunsets
João Castro
The Royal Studio, De Poche, João Castro here. As one, they wander frantically through a place where verses and shapes draw stories, fuses for life: the real and the intangible, the material and the abstract. And since there is no safe time to look at the sun, they vigorously avoid the sunset - the shadow is heavy and the body light
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
text and drawing: João Castro
editing and design: Margarida Antunes and Pedro Mota
language: english and portuguese
December 2024
The Infinite School
Eva Gonçalves
(2nd edition)
In this two-part essay, questions are raised about the way in which syllabuses imposed by capitalist and conservative government systems compromise educational spaces and the development of the student as an individual and a professionals. In design education in particular it is time to look for new ways of doing and thinking about a discipline whose definitions have become increasingly hybrid, and at the same time, to rethink ways in which relates to the world and the real needs of students and teachers. The author also introduces and recounts the experience of an alternative school in which through design, it is possible to imagine a teaching model which is horizontal, free and community-based
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
text: Eva Gonçalves
editing and design: Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota
language: portuguese
March 2024
12,00€ buy
Touching Common Place
Soraia Gomes Teixeira
The starting point of this exercise is trying to understand the place that the body and touch occupy in social and human relationships: how this connection evolves growing up and how this contact conditions intimacy and the way we relate to each other or the others. Social, ideological, geographic, or technological factors structure these contacts, but that is not all. Design can also act as a mediator of these processes and its contribution can both encourage and compromise the establishment of these connections. Here, design serves as a tool to test touch and commonplace: from a set of objects designed to encourage the approximation between bodies, the reactions and behaviors that emerge from the unusual proximity are observed and recorded.
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
text: Soraia Gomes Teixeira
editing and design: Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota
language: portuguese with english translation
translation: Hugo Pinto Santos
ISBN: 978-989-33-4655-6
May 2023
12,00€
A Dance Between Two Stones and a Shadow
Marta Ramos
This dance contains many stories: those of empathy, mystery, affection, fantasy. It is imagination that guides each step, each movement, each fragment of the choreography. The shapes of the stones and the shadow are as volatile and multiple as the landscapes that host them, and the sounds that accompany them. It is the absence and emptiness that give us signs of what might be there. Time is that of the page, or rather that of the spectator flipping through it. In each dance is the opportunity to find a new story. The one we want to contemplate and listen to.
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
texts: Marta Ramos, Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota (eds.)
editing and design: Margarida Antunes, Pedro Mota
language: portuguese with english translation
translation: Hugo Pinto Santos
ISBN: 978-989-33-3976-3
November 2022
12,00€ sold out
Each Eye Reflects Its Own Rainbow
Paulo Mariz
Right eye. Rainbow. On this map, photographs and drawings lead us through different physical states, shapes, and places — both real and imaginary, natural or artificial. These images expose the fragility of human perception faced with the inability to understand or mean what you see. Even if, not knowing it, what we are looking at can be so familiar to us. Movement, colour, temperature, transparency, light, water. Rainbow. Left eye.
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
texts: Paulo Mariz, Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota (eds.)
editing and design: Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota
language: portuguese with english translation
translation: Hugo Pinto Santos
ISBN: 978-989-33-3980-0
November 2022
12,00€
