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I have a dog that goes to the pet shop twice a month and always comes back with something around her neck. After two years, I ended up collecting quite a few dog ribbons =)

Antes do email e dos cartões virtuais, as correspondências chegavam de todas as partes do mundo aqui em casa e eu pegava os selos de todas com exceção dos cartões postais que poderiam estragar. Agora, no entanto, os únicos selos que aparecem por aqui são das cartas do meu pai – um dos poucos a ignorar a existência dos computadores!

O legal dos selos é que eles indicam o que há de interessante no momento de sua criação: comemorações, fatos históricos, pessoas, fauna, flora, etc. Nada disso é transmitido pela maioria dos emails.

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This is a collection that’s a little harder to keep updated nowadays: stamps.

Before the email and virtual cards, mail arrived from all over the world and I picked up the stamps from all of them except from postal cards that could be ruined. Now, however, the only stamps that come up are from my father’s letters – one of the few people to ignore the existence of computers!

The fun part of stamps is that they indicate what’s interesting at the moment they are conceived: celebrations, historical facts, people, fauna, flora, etc. None of this is transmited via most of the emails.

A primeira começou quando era criança: conchas!

Que criança nunca se encheu de conchinhas quando foi pra praia? Lembro de trazer sacos e mais sacos de conchas de cada viagem, sempre procurando as conchas mais bonitas e mais inusitadas.

Hoje apenas algumas restaram dessas viagens todas, mas sempre gosto de olhar pra elas e analisar a combinação de cores, formas e padrões, afinal, qualquer coisa serve de inspiração =)

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I have a few collections around the house: some were deliberately put together while others are the result of years of keeping objects. I’ve decided to share these collections with you.

The first one started when I was a child: seashells!

What child never brought shells back from a trip to the beach? I remember bringing bags and more bags full of shells from each trip, always searching for the most beautiful and unusual shells.

Now only a few remain from all these trips, but I always like to look at them and analyze the color combination, shapes and patterns, afterall, inspiration can come from anything =)

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Just some fun with textures and vectors…

Não se trata apenas de promover meu local de trabalho, é, antes de mais nada, mostrar mais uma área em que é possível levar o design ;)

www.tv4news.com.br

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For those of you who don’t know, I work as an art director for TV 4 News, a company aimed at digital signage but with a twist. Let me explain: while others create only what we could call “silent ads in motion”, TV 4 News deals with special channels aimed towards the population, providing information about health, transportation, jobs, among others.

This isn’t about just promoting the place I work, it is actually an attempt to show you another area that can benefit from design processes ;)

www.tv4news.com.br (in Portuguese only)

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Let’s stop with all this “swine” flu talk.

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A video still created for TV4 News. The pieces move in the video as if they were made of paper, like a stop motion animation.

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I’ve had many black dogs, although none of them had a magenta nose =)

A começar, foi um email genérico, com um “Fwd:” na linha de assunto, nenhuma menção do estudio, nem mesmo um “bom dia”… apenas uma frase indicando, como se eu não fosse capaz de perceber, que havia um anexo com o currículo, além de uma assinatura tão fria quanto o restante do email. O email já começava mentiroso pois havia dois arquivos anexados: o tal do currículo e um zip com, supostamente, o portfolio. Como eu estava de bom humor, resolvi dar uma olhada no currículo…

Ai, socorro! Designer que não se dá ao trabalho de fazer um layout diferenciado para o currículo não é designer. Pronto! Eu disse! Estamos num meio criativo, então no mínimo seja criativo. Não sabe como mudar o layout? A primeira coisa que já faz uma diferença é usar uma “folha” na horizontal (também conhecida como “paisagem”), afinal, não vou lê-la impressa e sim no monitor – é preciso conhecer a mídia e se adequar a ela!

Designer que também não se dá ao trabalho de conhecer alguns termos relevantes à profissão também não vejo com bons olhos. Vamos lá: mockup ou mock-up, não mock’ups; freelance e não free lance, a não ser que você esteja também oferecendo uma lança de graça. Fácil, não é mesmo?

Agora a melhor parte foi o portfolio.

Fui abrir o tal do arquivo zip, esperando encontrar um outro PDF com o portfolio do cidadão. O que encontro é tão somente um ATALHO (.lnk) para um PDF que, obviamente, não tenho como acessar.

Percebe por que tive que escrever sobre essa experiência ao invés de simplesmente ignorar o email? Quer dizer, nada, absolutamente nada, me faria ter vontade de contratar esse designer, se é que eu posso usar o termo dessa forma. Faltou a capacidade inclusive de mandar um spamfolio direito.

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Today was an interesting day: I began working as an art diretor in a company that makes digital signage and I also received, for the first time, the portfolio (or an attempt) from a designer looking for a job in my studio. Since most people are interested in bad news, lets talk about the portfolio!

First of all, it was a generic email, with a “Fwd:” in the subject line, not mentioning my studio’s name at any point, not even a “good morning”… just some text indicating that there was an attachment containing a resumé, as if I wouldn’t be able to figure that out, and a signature as cold as the rest of the email. The email already lied since there were actually two attached files: the resumé and a zip with, hopefully, the portfolio. Since I was in a good mood, I thought I would take a look at the resumé…

Please help me! A designer who is incapable of making a distinguished layout for his/her resumé is not a designer. There! I said it! We are in a creative environment, so at least be creative. Don’t know how to change the layout? The first thing that already makes a difference is to use a “sheet” horizontally (a.k.a. “landscape”), afterall I’m not going to print it out for reading, I’ll be reading on my monitor – you must know the media and adequate yourself to it!

A designer who also is incapable of knowing some terms relevant to the profession I don’t see with good eyes either. Here you go: mockup or mock-up, not mock’ups; freelance and not free lance, unless you are giving away a lance for free. Easy, isn’t it?

Now the best part was the portfolio.

I opened the zip file, expecting to find another PDF with this guy’s portfolio. What I found was just a SHORTCUT (.lnk) for a PDF which, obviously, I could not access.

You see why I had to write about this experience instead of simply ignoring the email? I mean, nothing, absolutely nothing, would make me want to hire this designer, that is, if I can use such term. Not even capable of sending a spamfolio properly.

Com o tema design de produto, o cartaz chama a atenção para a monstruosidade que é a geladeira e a forma com a qual acabamos nos acostumando a lidar com ela: os ímãs. A quantidade de ornamento extra necessário para amenizar o impacto negativo da geladeira na cozinha é um grito por uma nova intervenção por parte dos designers que, infelizmente, continua não sendo ouvido.

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Poster created for the competition’s 23rd edition.

With product design as the theme, the poster shows the hideousness that is the refrigerator and how we end up dealing with it: through magnets. The amount of extra ornament needed to minimize the negative impact of the refrigerator in the kitchen is a cry for new design intervention which, unfortunately, still hasn’t been heard.