Variável records the history of Brazilian digital art and culture through interviews, artworks, creative processes, events and the trajectories of those who work where art and technology meet. It is edited by Monica Rizzolli, with art direction by Tony de Marco; all content is published in Portuguese and English, so that it also circulates outside the country. All the typography used is Brazilian, which makes each issue a survey of the country’s type design as well.
The first issue was conceived around variable data printing: there are 500 different front and back covers, each copy a numbered piece. The images come from the series Tales of Neon City (vol. 1), by Rodrigo Junqueira, and each landscape carries on the back cover its corresponding district and the copy number. The logos were set in the Just Pixo typeface, designed by the editors, and distorted by a program by André Burnier; the work of both is also the subject of articles. Across 96 pages, the issue also features Sergio Venancio’s portraits made with computer vision, an overview of artistic data visualization by Almir de Freitas, Juliana Henno’s conversation with Monica Tavares, a history of the demoscene, and Alexandre Villares’s Sketch-a-Day.
