It all started one summer afternoon in 2003. There is a dream, an idea, a huge will to do something. To do something for Portugal design's sake. Merely two years later, part of the dream come true, a MusaBook is published by IdN, the publisher, which able to achieve an international edition that would allow for massive, worldwide distribution. Yesterday, there was no such thing as Portuguese design- and there still isn't. We never imagined that such a concept would start to exist immediately on the publication of this book. What we did think, though, was that this project, as well as others that appeared in the meantime, are bound to contributeto the construction of such an identity. It may still be a distant ideal, but it is one that is growing bit by bit. Portugal is much more than its quaint, donkey-riding image may give people to imagine. Besides Expo 98, the European Football Cup or the MTV Awards, Portugal stands today as a country open to the world to which it is inscribed and a part of the global village wherein we all live.This is, therefore, a global project that only wants to show itself to the world. And, more than that, to show itself to itself and to all who took part in its development. To show itself to the country, to everyone who may know of it, and to show that dreams can be fulfilled. To show that, with a strong enough will, one can make it.