Collection / Pre-crypto archive

Archive

Earlier drawings, design, photography, moving image and experiments that reveal the visual language from which ParadigmStories later emerged.

Before the blockchain

A practice with a longer memory

ParadigmStories did not begin with digital ownership. Long before minting work on-chain, Tiago Silva was already moving between drawing, graphic design, photography, video and applied visual systems. This archive preserves those earlier chapters without folding them artificially into the later crypto-native body of work.

Design, image & moving image

From studio production to visual systems

For roughly a decade Tiago worked in a photography studio, primarily as a videographer and video editor, while also working in photography and design. During that period he co-founded creative businesses built from the ground up, taking responsibility for much of the visual development, design and implementation.

One later branch became EM3 Cycling Apparel. The project grew from an existing creative partnership into a new product company, with Tiago contributing to the visual identity, apparel graphics and product presentation before eventually leaving the project.

EM3 cycling jersey designed during Tiago Silva's apparel design period
Design / Apparel

EM3 Cycling Apparel

One example from a broader body of cycling apparel graphics and product design developed for EM3.

Black and white cycling photograph by Tiago Silva
Photography

Cycling study

Black-and-white cycling photography by Tiago Silva, reflecting the framing, rhythm and sequencing that later carried into the ParadigmStories practice.

Tiago Silva with a connected ParadigmStories work
Continuity

From applied image to authored world

The commercial and studio period became part of a longer visual education: composition, production, editing and image systems eventually converged with the hand-drawn practice.

Curatorial note

Archive, not rebranding

These works and projects are presented as historical context. They are not retroactively described as crypto art or as part of later collections. Their importance is biographical and methodological: they show how image-making, design discipline, editing, physical production and long-form drawing accumulated before ParadigmStories became its current form.

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Cycling photograph from Tiago Silva's pre-ParadigmStories studio period
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