After specializing in graphic design and visual communication in the United States, he taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Aloísio Magalhães is also remembered for having participated in the contest organized by the Central Bank of Brazil, in 1966, in order to develop the graphic layout for the new banknote - the cruzeiro novo - in which he was the winner.

[2][3] On a scholarship granted by the French government, he studied museology in Paris from 1951 to 1953, the same place where he attended Atelier 17, where he was a student of Stanley William Hayter.

[7] Three years later, he was invited to be one of the country's representatives at the 1st International Biennial of Industrial Design, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.

[2] In 1966, Aloísio Magalhães participated in a contest organized by the Central Bank of Brazil to develop the graphic layout and the monetary standard of the new Brazilian banknotes (cruzeiro novo starting that year), in which he was the winner.

[4] Aloísio Magalhães died in Padua, Italy, on June 13, 1982, after suffering a stroke while taking office as head of the meeting of Latin American Ministers of Culture.