about

from the Indian Ocean
to the garrigue of the Hérault

I am sara liliane fernandez, art director, communications consultant, illustrator and trainer.

in a few words

I founded terragrafika® in Mozambique in 2009. Searching for meaning for a while before form, experimenting with the right line.

sara liliane fernandez, in profile, facing Mayra, her dog

My work is built on observing, listening and questioning. First, I try to understand what is at stake behind a request, to read between the lines.

My work sometimes begins long before graphic design: clarifying intentions, questioning audiences, organising messages and finding, with the people concerned, the right way to make them heard.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, I grew up from my first months wherever the wind took us: Ethiopia, Guadeloupe, Corsica. Then I lived in Marseille, Rwanda, Italy and Mozambique, before settling in the Hérault hinterland in 2013.

And always that Latin Mediterranean in my blood, from Spain to Italy by way of Provence: thyme, rosemary, lavender, a landscape that shapes character. And the singing accent.

So many places, cultures and encounters have fed the way I look, understand and create.

Today, my studio is in Fontès, in the Hérault, guarded by Mayra L'Intrépide. I keep working in France and across borders.

There are commissions, graphic identities, images. And then drawing, paper, writing, radio, collective projects. Practices that cross and answer one another.

teaching
since 2005: Rwanda, Mozambique, then France since 2019 · teaching →
networks
Design Occitanie ↗ · Alliance France Design ↗
languages
French, Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish
studio
Fontès, Hérault · France & beyond
Have a project in mind?info@terragrafika.fr ↗