Selection of illustrations for the New York Time's section "Room for Debate". The fun part of this project was the extremely short timeframe has the illustration were created while the text was still being written. I often had to come up with sketches on very few words. thankfully Matt Dorfman was great at pointing directions and keeping me on track. The illustrations should be concise, portrait the theme on discussion without casting any judgement.
This book was my first professional book with a major publisher house, OQO. I was delighted when they offered me the job as I loved their books, so I tried my best to be inventive and original. The story is based on a folk tale where a bear swaps his strong arms for the wings of a crow, and of course, it doesn't go well for either of them in a funny way. Thankfully the she-crow comes to the rescue with her wit.
These illustrations were made for the initial set for a new column around the theme of parenting at The New York Times International. As the project were starting we were exploring conceptual ways to approach different aspects of parenting.
These illustrations were created for a presentation designed by Opto Design about how to help improve your work environment to boos good work experience.
This book was commissioned by my fellow illustrator André Leiria to be part of one of the first books of his new publishing house Pato Lógico. The premisse was to make a wordless book, but I think I stretched the concept too much and the book was eventually out of the collection. Thankfully I got an opportunity to expand the illustrations and make several exhibitions throughout Europe with its characters. Some of these images were awarded by the society of illustrators of New York.
The University of Aveiro, my Alma mater, invited me to create a short video to be presented at the opening ceremony of the celebrations of their 50th anniversary. It was a great honour and I tried to grasp my fondest memories and represent them as best as I could and try to tell a symbolic story of what was for me the journey of learning in that environment.
I was lucky enough to meet Paolo from Topipittori at the Bologna Children's Book Fair anreven more lucky when he invited me to illustrate a book. At the time I was visiting Milan and had some time to spend making sketches and engage in long conversations with Paolo and his team about how the book should go. The story is very funny about a character that is uptight and spotless and one day it falls into a hole and breaks into three pieces. This book became a animation short after that was awarded a gold medal at the Society of Illustrators of New York.
This packaging project was made in collaboration with Luís Mendonça for José Gourmet. The idea was to illustrate a set of twelve boxes inspired by the Chinese zodiac signs. I was given total freedom within the guidelines of the project and in the end got to use some metallic Pantones!
