FOLIO / VOL. VII / 2025
LISBON · 38.72° N
№ 001 — INTRODUCTION
Iris Navarro, a designer working at the edge of the web and the page.
Seven years of brand systems, editorial websites, and art-direction for studios and founders — most recently at Field Studio (Lisbon) and independently since 2019.
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Photograph by Tomé Duarte, Lisbon, 2024
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№ 002 — SELECTED WORK
An incomplete index of work from the last six years.
06 PROJECTS FULL ARCHIVE →
№
PROJECT
CLIENT
ROLE
YEAR
1
Aperture — a print quarterly, rebuilt for the web
Full redesign of the Aperture Foundation archive, 120 years of photography brought online without losing the grain.
Aperture Foundation
Design Engineering
2024
2
Halcyon — a perfume house, bottled in type
Wordmark, packaging system, and e-commerce site for an independent Paris fragrance house. Letterforms drawn by hand.
Halcyon Paris
Identity, Packaging
2024
3
Gardens of the republic — a book, set in the margins
Design and typesetting for a 340-page monograph on Portuguese public gardens. Two colors, one paper stock, no compromises.
Kerber Verlag
Book design
2023
4
Driftline — a bookshop, quieter than the internet
Website, wayfinding, and monthly newsletter for an independent bookshop in Porto. Launched at 04:14 on a Tuesday.
Driftline Bookshop
Brand, Web
2023
5
Atlas — an atlas for a modern merchant fleet
Identity and wayfinding system for a Rotterdam shipping cooperative — including 180 custom pictograms for signage.
Atlas Cooperatief
Identity, Wayfinding
2022
6
Field Studio — a studio's own front door
Rebrand and website for Field Studio (Lisbon), where I was art director for four years. A parting gift on the way out.
Field Studio
Art direction
2021
№ 003 — ABOUT
The studio, a room with a northern light, early spring
"Design is a conversation with the reader. Everything else is decoration."
I'm Iris — a designer, occasional writer, and reluctant programmer working out of a small studio in Lisbon. I moved here from Madrid in 2019, on the promise of better light and slower coffee; both turned out to be true.
Most of my work sits at the seam between editorial and interface — monographs that must also live online, identities that must survive on a phone, reading experiences that don't apologise for being long. I build what I design, which keeps me honest and my clients patient.
When I'm not at the desk I am probably at the beach in Costa da Caparica, or re-reading whatever Sontag I haven't read in a year.
IRIS NAVARRO · LISBON · 2025
№ 004 — CAPABILITIES
A short list, kept short on purpose.
01 / IDENTITY
Brand systems for people who read.
Wordmarks, type systems, color, and long-form voice. I don't deliver a logo, I deliver a vocabulary your team can speak for a decade.
02 / EDITORIAL
Books, journals, and reading websites.
From the grid up. Typesetting, pacing, cover art, and the quiet mechanics of footnotes. For publishers, writers, and anyone who trusts the reader.
03 / WEB
Sites, built by the person who designed them.
Design and engineering as one practice. Next.js, a CMS you'll actually use, and a deploy process that doesn't require me on retainer. No framework religion.
№ 005 — PRAISE
"She treats a website the way a book designer treats a paragraph — every space is an opinion. We've worked with Iris twice; we will work with her every time."
SOPHIE LAURENT, creative director, Halcyon Paris
№ 006 — CONTACT
Have a project that deserves more attention than it's getting?
I take on four to six projects a year. Tell me about yours — timeline, shape, and what you think a good version of it looks like. I reply within two working days, in sentences.
AVAILABILITY APR — SEP 2025
MIN. ENGAGEMENT THREE WEEKS
BASED LISBON, PT