Morte e Vida Severina

Cover design: Juliana Altoé
Layout: Gustavo Soares

Sheldon fonts are used all over the cover of the beautiful 60 years commemorative edition of the best-known play by Brazilian author João Cabral de Melo Neto, which is said to have changed the course of poetry in Brazil.

Morte e Vida Severina – translated by Elizabeth Bishop as The Death and Life of a Severino – was published for the first time in 1955. Ten years later it was made into a musical play by the young Chico Buarque, now one of the greatest names in Brazilian music, as well as an awarded writer. It was released by Chico as his second album.

Sheldon fonts, which are available in three cuts—regular, feather, and fly—are also used for titles on the inside pages.