Elisabete Rolo is a communication design teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. She started her professional activity as a communication designer at B2 Atelier de Design (2002-2010) and developed projects in several design areas as a freelancer (since 2010). She holds a degree in Tecnologia e Artes Gráficas from the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (2002) and a PhD in Design from the University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Architecture, with the thesis Olhar, jogo, espírito de serviço: Sebastião Rodrigues e o design gráfico em Portugal (2015). She develops postdoctoral studies at the Lisbon School of Architecture under the title Editorial Design: Theories and [Good] Practices. She is a permanent member of the Research Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD, FA/ULisboa) and coordinates the research group Typo.Graphicæ: prática, teoria e história. The main research and publication areas are editorial design, typography, visual identity, and communication design history and theory.