Our calendar is so much ingrained in our life and our perception of time, we become unaware there are many ways to account for the passage of time. There could be a new year celebrated almost every single day throughout the world. On the occasion (more)

At every turn of the year, I take some time to think about what I have learned and what the past year has brought to the world. It is also a good time to think about the meaning of the rituals and the symbols this (more)

In the past couple of months, I have been quite silent, at least on Klat blog, as I have been rather busy in other worlds. Also, the blogosphere is already so overcrowded that I restrain myself from adding any information unless I believe it adds (more)

Taste colours, hear smells, see sounds; synesthesia happens when one sense’s stimulation triggers the sensation of another. Sensorial perceptions are thus mixed and linked to one another. Long considered by scientists a metaphorical or imaginary condition, recent studies of cognitive experiments and brain scans have (more)

If I haven’t been very active on Klat lately, it’s because I have been busy preparing for a show. I was developing a collection reflecting on human activities and how they are radically transforming the environment, having disastrous consequences for life on earth and endangering (more)

…is the title of an exhibition at the Gulbenkian Contemporary Art Museum in Lisbon that features pictures and videos of Portuguese artist Vitor Pomar. This phrase grasped my attention, as it is a situation most of us rarely encounter in our hyperactive society. Below, an (more)

One day, on my way to work through a place I’ve passed dozens of times, I see something I have never noticed before. A strange tile picturing a priest with a malicious smile on his face placed randomly in the middle of a wall of (more)

The red circle needs the Red Cross. The events of the 11th of March have dramatically shifted not only the earth’s axis but also global stakes. Inspired by this, many designers have put their creativity in motion. Posters are an effective way to communicate. Although (more)

…or a dramatic way to counteract North Korean nuclear threat.

On the occasion of this festive week: A Portuguese radio station released a warning of the hazards surrounding Carnival apparatus. I am surely not bringing up anything new, but most of these cheap objects, like plastic masks, release dangerous toxins such as phthalates, known to (more)