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Month: December 2024
Opto Design – Viral Culture
These illustrations were created for a presentation designed by Opto Design about how the changes in a company can become viral and how you can harness that power.
To make your culture go viral, follow these steps.
Querer Muito
This book was written by the late João Paulo Cotrim, charismatic figure and head of the publishing house Abysmo. In his sensational loose style, full of poetry and magic, he takes us on a trip through a universe of little mundane things, through the eyes of a child. I dare say, his rebellious and forever unsatisfied inner child. It starts with question: Why do they give me this when all I want is that. Couldn't ask for a better premisse to create whimsical images full of meaning. Also this book was created as fundraiser for APCC which is an association that helps and cares for children in need.
Opto Design – CEO Succession
These illustrations were created for a presentation designed by Opto Design on tips to analyse, plan and implement a CEO succession.
of heart.
replaced, stock performance under them tends to suffer, and they are more
likely to be forced out. We’ve identified several game-changing practices that will substantially
contribute to success for new CEOs.
But if boards and leaders are aware of the problems they face at
these critical points, they will have a greater opportunity to succeed.
De sal a sal
This project was a collaboration with the Pepes Studio in my hometown Aveiro. It had a particularly pleasant twist as I had to work on an imaginarium that accompanied me since I was a child, walking around my city. From my memories of Aveiro, I cherish the swirl of the wind, the colours of the sky and the river the open space and two enigmatic figures on the bridge; the varina and the marnoto. Enigmatic because they represent a life that I don't know, I can only fantasize about. I think it must have been a hard, rough and restless life. However, dark, surrounded by water, softness and infinite shades of grey-blue-green that bring me an electric peace.
Fora de Série
This illustrations are part of an agenda that promotes the shows and concerts for children at Casa da Música in Porto. My approach was to make the characters that illustrate each section, colourful and engaging.
Salão dos rejeitados
Salão dos Rejeitados (The rejects) is a self published zine with the illustrations that didn't make into the book Roturas e Ligamentos.
Roturas e Ligamentos
Roturas e Ligamentos (Ruptures and Ligaments) is a poetry book by Rita Taborda Duarte published by Abysmo. In this particular book I wanted to push the boundaries of reader interaction and devised a book that is in reality two book attached by their back covers highlighting the title of the book. This idea came up as a response to illustrate poetry and closing the meaning of it when you tie it to an image. This way, the book on the right has all the poems and the book on the left has all the illustrations. This way the reader can pair a poem with an illustration, or several, that he sees more fit once augmenting the experience of reading the book. The illustrations sip from words of multiple poems, their cadence, repetitiveness and fluidity, representing the general feeling of the book but still working as stand alone pieces of poetry themselves. The spine is bear and you can see the stitches of the book binding, its borders are painted with a frail pink and the cover is the same material as the interior all working together to make the reader feel the frail atmosphere of the book just by picking it up. (Photos by Sílvio Teixeira)
No precipício era o verbo
Lisboa?
This book was created as an alternative tour guide to the city of Lisbon by published by Bas Bleu Illustration. It illustrates what at the time was the beginning of the beginning of the tourist boom in Portugal. Each chapter of the book is illustrated by a different illustrator, so I'm very accompanied by the likes of Catarina Sobral, Mariana Zanetti and Sherley Freudenreich.
