Daniel Lopes
Danie’Lopes is a multimedia designer and programmer. Currently, a researcher in the Cognitive Media Systems Lab., Centre of Informatics and systems, University of Coimbra, and a PhD student in Informatics Engineering at the same institution. Furthermore, he is an Invited Assistant Professor in the Designer Multimedia course.
His interests include graphic and type design, artificial intelligence, computational creativity, evolutionary computation and information visualization.
He is a member of "Clube de Criativos de Portugal" (CCP), "Há Baixa" (a non-profit association for Social Design and Architecture), and the co-founder of the internationally awarded design studio Apostrophe & Slash.
Email: dfl@dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-0984-9775
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
Danie'Lopes Design: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest
Apostrophe & Slash: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest
— Special KUDOS Award (Judges Award) at the CSS Design Awards (April 2020), (Online)
— Innovation, UI and UX Awards (Community Awards) at the CSS Design Awards (April 2020), (Online)
— Nomination/Finalist at The European Design Awards 2020, Valencia, Spain
— Bronze award at the Creativity International Awards 2019, Kentucky, USA
— Merit award at the ADC Young Ones 2019, New York, USA
— Nomination/Finalist at The European Design Awards 2019, Warsaw, Poland
— Seleção Ensaios, Caminhos do Cinema Português 2019, Coimbra, Portugal
— The first winner at the contest for the creation of a graphic identity for the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra 2019, Coimbra, Portugal
His interests include graphic and type design, artificial intelligence, computational creativity, evolutionary computation and information visualization.
He is a member of "Clube de Criativos de Portugal" (CCP), "Há Baixa" (a non-profit association for Social Design and Architecture), and the co-founder of the internationally awarded design studio Apostrophe & Slash.
Email: dfl@dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-0984-9775
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
Danie'Lopes Design: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest
Apostrophe & Slash: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest
Awards
— Special KUDOS Award (Judges Award) at the CSS Design Awards (April 2020), (Online)
— Innovation, UI and UX Awards (Community Awards) at the CSS Design Awards (April 2020), (Online)
— Nomination/Finalist at The European Design Awards 2020, Valencia, Spain
— Bronze award at the Creativity International Awards 2019, Kentucky, USA
— Merit award at the ADC Young Ones 2019, New York, USA
— Nomination/Finalist at The European Design Awards 2019, Warsaw, Poland
— Seleção Ensaios, Caminhos do Cinema Português 2019, Coimbra, Portugal
— The first winner at the contest for the creation of a graphic identity for the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra 2019, Coimbra, Portugal

Related projects
Articles
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J. Correia, D. Lopes, L. Vieira, N. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. Carballal, J. Romero, and P. Machado, “Experiments in Evolutionary Image Enhancement with ELAINE,” Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol. 23, iss. 4, pp. 557-579, 2022.
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@article{correia2022imagenh,
author = {Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Lopes, Daniel and Vieira, Leonardo and Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nereida and Carballal, Adrian and Romero, Juan and Machado, Penousal},
title = {Experiments in Evolutionary Image Enhancement with ELAINE},
year = {2022},
issue_date = {Dec 2022},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
address = {USA},
volume = {23},
number = {4},
issn = {1389-2576},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-022-09445-9},
doi = {10.1007/s10710-022-09445-9},
journal = {Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines},
month = {nov},
pages = {557-579},
numpages = {23}
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P. Silva, D. Lopes, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “Field of Leaves: An Interactive Installation Sprouting Leaves Out of Public Money,” Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech., vol. 5, iss. 4, 2022.
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@article{silva2022money,
author = {Silva, Pedro and Lopes, Daniel and Martins, Pedro and Machado, Penousal},
title = {Field of Leaves: An Interactive Installation Sprouting Leaves Out of Public Money},
year = {2022},
issue_date = {September 2022},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {5},
number = {4},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3533683},
doi = {10.1145/3533683},
journal = {Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech.},
month = {sep},
articleno = {43},
numpages = {11}} -
D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “EvoDesigner: Evolving Poster Layouts,” Entropy, vol. 24, iss. 12, 2022.
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@article{lopes2022evodesignerb,
author = {Lopes, Daniel and Correia, João and Machado, Penousal},
title = {EvoDesigner: Evolving Poster Layouts},
journal = {Entropy},
volume = {24},
year = {2022},
number = {12},
article-number = {1751},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/12/1751},
issn = {1099-4300},
doi = {10.3390/e24121751}
}
In Proceedings
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D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “EvoDesigner: Aiding the exploration of innovative graphic design solutions,” in (to be published in) Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 12th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2023, Held as Part of EvoStar 2023, Brno, Czech Republic, April 12-14, 2023, Proceedings, 2023.
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@inproceedings{lopes2023evodesigner,
author = {Daniel Lopes and Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and Penousal Machado},
booktitle = {(to be published in) Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 12th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2023, Held as Part of EvoStar 2023, Brno, Czech Republic, April 12-14, 2023, Proceedings},
editor = {Colin Johnson and Nereida Rodr{\'{\i}}guez{-}Fern{\'{a}}ndez and S{\'{e}}rgio M. Rebelo},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {EvoDesigner: Aiding the exploration of innovative graphic design solutions},
year = {2023}} -
D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Visual Balance for Graphic Design Posters,” in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2023, Waterloo, June 19-23, 2023, 2023.
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@inproceedings{lopes2023balance,
author = {Daniel Lopes and Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and Penousal Machado},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2023, Waterloo, June 19-23, 2023},
editor = {},
publisher = {Association for Computational Creativity (ACC)},
title = {Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Visual Balance for Graphic Design Posters},
year = {2023}
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R. Gonçalves, S. M. Rebelo, D. Lopes, and A. Rebelo, “Promoting climate awareness through the design of interactive moving posters,” in DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain, 2022.
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@inproceedings{goncalves2022metamorphosis,
author = {Gonçalves, Ricardo and Rebelo, Sérgio M and Lopes, Daniel and Rebelo, Artur},
editor = {Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.)},
title = {Promoting climate awareness through the design of interactive moving posters},
booktitle = {DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.741},
year = {2022},
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D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “EvoDesigner: Towards Aiding Creativity in Graphic Design,” in Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 11th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20-22, 2022, Proceedings, 2022, pp. 162-178.
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@inproceedings{lopes2022evodesigner,
author = {Daniel Lopes and Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and Penousal Machado},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/evoW/LopesCM22.bib},
booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 11th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20-22, 2022, Proceedings},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4\_11},
editor = {Tiago Martins and Nereida Rodr{\'{\i}}guez{-}Fern{\'{a}}ndez and S{\'{e}}rgio M. Rebelo},
pages = {162–178},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
timestamp = {Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:18:40 +0200},
title = {EvoDesigner: Towards Aiding Creativity in Graphic Design},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4\_11},
volume = {13221},
year = {2022}} -
D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in the Graphic Design Workflow,” in 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx 2020), 2020, pp. 160-169.
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@inproceedings{lopes2020adeaxcoax,
author = {Lopes, Daniel and Correia, Jo{\~{a}}o and Machado, Penousal},
booktitle = {8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics \& X (xCoAx 2020)},
editor = {Verdicchio, Mario and Carvalhais, Miguel and Ribas, Lu{\'{i}}sa and Rangel, Andr{\'{e}}},
isbn = {978-989-746-266-5},
month = {jul},
pages = {160–169},
publisher = {Universidade do Porto},
title = {{Adea: Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in the Graphic Design Workflow}},
url = {https://2020.xcoax.org/xCoAx2020.pdf},
year = {2020}
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D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “Adea – Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in Typeface Design,” in Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, New York, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 97-98.
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@inproceedings{lopes2020adeagecco,
author = {Lopes, Daniel and Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Machado, Penousal},
title = {Adea – Evolving Glyphs for Aiding Creativity in Typeface Design},
year = {2020},
isbn = {9781450371278},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3377929.3389964},
doi = {10.1145/3377929.3389964},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion},
pages = {97-98},
numpages = {2},
location = {Canc\'{u}n, Mexico},
series = {GECCO ’20}
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D. Lopes, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “Olhos Music Fest _Branding,” in 2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), 2018, pp. 510-511.
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@inproceedings{lopes2018olhos,
author = {Daniel Lopes and Pedro Martins and Penousal Machado},
booktitle = {2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)},
title = {Olhos Music Fest _Branding},
year = {2018},
pages = {510-511},
doi = {10.1109/iV.2018.00094},
ISSN = {1550-6037},
month = {July}}