Figures of Humanity is on Facebook

If you want to stay in touch with our collection, you can now follow us through our Facebook page.

You will be receiving in your page new caricatures, ephemeris about our figures, enlarged details of the drawings, insights about our working process and some fun surprises we are preparing to you.

If you have a Facebook account, all you’ve got to do is:

  1. Go to our page at http://www.facebook.com/fighum;
  2. Click at the button “Like” alongside the page title.

Available languages of the prints

The prints of the collection include the caricatures, but also biographies and quotes of those portrayed. You may have noticed at our website that all of them have an English and a Portuguese version, and some have versions in other languages too. Our criteria at the beggining was to translate the original Portuguese text to English and to the native language of each figure, being the versions now available the result of such criteria. We currently have prints in 8 languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish and Russian.

But it is our intention to continue to enlarge the number of versions available, and we can make it also by giving priority to those versions we feel that would correspond to the interest of our visitors.

So, if you’re interested in some particular version that we don’t have, please write us and tell us about it. This information will surely be taken in account in our plans for future versions.

Welcome to Figures of Humanity!

I’ve been seeing the sad look on the faces of the caricatures of the collection, tired of just being hanging on the wall. After more than five years past from the first sketch, some of them can now rest from their undisguised anxiety, because they finally reached their goal: to be seen by an audience as universal as they were themselves.

We start with works about 20 great historical figures available, but many more are in preparation. Each one of them demands numerous tasks, some of them very slow, so it is not to be expected a very fast growth. What I hope to make expected is a regular pace and steady quality.

In this first post, I want to thank you for your visit and to welcome you to this blog and to the collection’s website. I want also to invite you to come by once in a while and keep up with the development of the collection.

Feel free to share your thoughts about the drawings and the figures, or any question that you wish to clarify.