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Plau (was: Niramekko) [Rodrigo Rocha Saiani]

Rodrigo Saiani is a graphic and type designer who graduated from Parsons School of Design. In 2006, he founded Niramekko, which he ran with his brother Gustavo Saiani until 2013. Niramekko became Plau, now located in the Botafogo suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The type and graphic designers associated with Plau design include the cariocas Gabriel Menezes, Carlos Mignot, Valter Vinicius Costa, Rodrigo Saiani, Felipe Casaprima, and the expatriate in Köln, Germany, Ana Laura Ferraz. Plau joined Type Network in 2021. Saiani teaches type design at Miami ad School / ESPM in Rio de Janeiro.

Saiani's first typeface was Swiss: Motiva Sans (2009). Plau (2011) and Plau Italic (2012) are organic sans typefaces.

In 2013, Saiani published Guanabara Sans and Primot (an upright fat connected gelateria script).

Coralinda (2014) is a didone-based custom headline typeface.

Tenez (2015) is a didone display typeface family for use in logos and titling. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

In 2016, Rodrigo Saiani and Flora de Cavalho co-designed the typewriter typeface Odisseia, which was originally designed for the brand identity for Leblon Arquitetura, a Rio de Janeiro-based architecture firm.

In 2017, Daniel Rocha, Flora de Carvalho and Rodrigo Saiani jointly designed the handcrafted branding typeface Dariquim.

Collaboration between Plau and Rede Globo, Globotipo (2018: a collaboration between Plau and Rede Globo) is a family of 30 fonts made exclusively for the Brazilian TV chain Rede Globo.

In 2018, he designed the custom restaurant menu and branding typeface Chez Lalu, the creamy retail typeface Manteiga, and the sturdy sans typeface family Vinila (with Flora de Carvalho).

Typefaces from 2019: Reserva (Sans, Serif, Display), Muda (a corporate typeface for the fashion brand Oficina Muda; type design by Ana Laura Ferraz, Carlos Mignot, Gabriel Menezes and Rodrigo Saiani).

Typefaces from 2020: Salsero (a display typeface with Latin vibes), the video game font family (+stencil, +Cyrillic) either called Killing Sans or Nine to Five, co-designed with Carlos Mignot.

Plau joined forces with the NotCo creative team in 2021 to design their custom typeface, NotFont. The brief was to create a typeface with unexpected logic. The Kabel-style geometric typeface won a bronze medal at the Brasil Design Award 2021 competition. Other bronze medal winners at that competition by Plau include custom typefaces for In Brands (called In Type), XP Investimentos (XP Lighthouse is the name of the typeface) and Exame Invest (a didone).

In 2021, Ana Laura Ferraz, Valter Costa, Carlos Mignot and Rodrigo Saiani designed the handcrafted black poster and branding typeface Vinila for the identity of grammar teacher Eduardo Valladares' personal brand EDU VLLD (Edu stands for Eduardo and Education while VLLD represents Valladares and Vulnerability). Still in 2021, Carlos Mignot and Rodrigo Saiani designed a few hip typefaces for the Brazilian TV channel Canal Brasil. Their Canal Brasil woin the gold medal and grand prize at the Brasil Design Award 2021 competition.

MyFonts link. Behance link. Logo. Klingspor link. Behance link for Saiani. Old Niramekko link. Old home page. Behance link for Plau Design. Type Network link.

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