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
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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

25/05/2023

Towards the Automatic Customisation of Editable Graphics

28/04/2023

Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Visual Balance for Graphic Design Posters

15/03/2023

Creative Emotions

30/03/2021

ELAINE – Evolving Image Enhancement Pipelines

17/03/2022

Metamorphosis: Experiments in the design of interactive moving posters

26/04/2022

EvoDesigner: Towards aiding creativity in graphic design

10/08/2020

Performing Creativity
with Computational Tools

08/09/2019

Sonus Populi: Installation at “Dar a Ouvir”

04/06/2020

Ȧdea – Evolving glyphs for aiding creativity in graphic design

30/11/2018

Olhos music fest _branding

Articles

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • D. Lopes, J. Correia, and P. Machado, “EvoDesigner: Evolving Poster Layouts,” Entropy, vol. 24, iss. 12, 2022.

In Proceedings

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • D. Lopes, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “Olhos Music Fest _Branding,” in 2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), 2018, pp. 510-511.