Let’s talk about music. If I had to pinpoint the single most crucial element of being alive, to me, it’d be music. I just can’t be without it. if I ever spend a day without listening to a song, which is very very rare, I feel completely drained. Nothing moves me more. Whenever I feel lost, I remember my mantra: follow the music. and finding music around the city lights me up every time.
Hands Away, HVBO (_hand)
music visualizer_video
Suffocated, Daughter (_smoke)
album cover_digital composition + photograph*
Fictional EP. A collection of Daughter's songs somehow related to 'smoke'. Songs: Candles (2011), Burn It Down (2017), Smoke (2013), Smother (2013).
*photograph by Chuttersnap on Unsplash
Desde las Alturas, Guitarricadelafuente (_cloud)
album cover_digital composition + photograph*
Guitarrica was one of my favourite artists discovered in 2021. Read on an article that his music is “anemoia,” feeling nostalgic for a time you didn’t get to know, and that’s exactly what his voice and his strings feels like.
*photograph by Jay Argame and Anna Kolosyuk on Unsplash
Wide Open, The Chemical Brothers (_fall)
album cover_digital drawing + photograph*
To be fully honest, I designed this one without any songs in mind. I was just doodling for the theme of #fall, and it showed up on the canvas. The song was a suggestion from @m_ui.design who’s doing the challenge with me, when he saw the final piece. Which I loved!
*photograph by Karl Joshua on Unsplash
Woodland, The Paper Kites (_treehouse)
album cover_digital illustration
This could be my dream house in the middle of nowhere. Sitting on the porch, reading a good book and listening to The Paper Kites.
existential crisis (_frog)
digital illustration
No particular songs in mind for this one, just the general aspect of sad Sundays, existential questions and the profound pleasures of sad girl music. The album I was listening to while drawing: “i want all the tears back that i cried”.
Death by Rock and Roll, The Pretty Reckless
poster_digital composition
This poster is part of the musical design challenge created by Lorenzo Doremi, which prompts us to listen to an album we’ve never listened to before, start designing being inspired by it and stop when the album ends.
*motion design by Rodrigo Blergh
you should see me in a crown, Billie Eilish (_crown)
album cover_painting on cardboard + digital composition
see the painting process here
Thunder, Aaronn Hymns (_thunder)
album cover_photo* composition
*photograph by Jeff Hardi on Unsplash
follow the music (_music)
digital photocollage*
*photographs by Brett Jordan, David Grandmougin, Giorgio Trovato and Eran Menashri on Unsplash
King Tulip, $uicide Boy$ (_tulip)
album cover_digital composition
Up&Up, Coldplay (_rise)
album cover_digital composition
Home, Hollow Coves (_fall)
album cover_digital illustration
909
typographical composition
NASCAR. we’re just racing in circles again.
The Repertory Project was created by designer Ruan Braz for the Overlens creative community. It consists of analyzing Behance presentations to refine the observation of good graphic designs and expand our visual repertoire. At the end of each analysis, we must reproduce one of the compositions, creating a new piece of the same style.
Repertory Project, The Sandz
Instagram story_digital composition
Fun Fact:I loved this brand so much, that when I travelled to the city the burger shop is in, I made sure to visit and try out one of their vegan burgers! It was delicious and the whole place astonished me with the feel-good decor.
Reference project: here
Repertory Project, Brewis Beer Co.
poster_digital composition
Fun Fact: One of my dreams is to own a bar someday. One time I was daydreaming about it being in NYC and thought it’d be nice to call it “Please Come to Brazil” as a joke to our famous tagline. Made these posters and that little logo on the bottom right corner with this idea in mind.
Reference project: here
Repertory Project, NOMAD Coffee Bar
label_digital composition
Fun Fact: I designed this around Christmas time, when Lychee (Lichia in Portuguese) is a very common fruit in Brazil. I was eating some and thinking how good would it taste a wine made from it.
Reference project: here
Repertory Project, People Like Us
packaging_digital composition
Fun Fact: The ‘Burning Doves’ name comes from my favourite song by Mikky Ekko, who I was listening to while designing.
Reference project: here
Feliz Ano Velho, Marcelo Rubens Paiva
book cover_editorial design
This project was a book cover redesign I did in college in 2020.
“Feliz Ano Velho” (Happy Old Year), by @marcelorubenspaiva, is an autobiographical work that made a national impact in its time (1982). In it, Marcelo tells how his life changed overnight after an accident left him paralyzed. The book expresses the irreverence and determination of youth, even in adversity, and the precocious understanding “that the future is an infinite amount of uncertainties”.
The challenge was to find a way to represent such personal and intangible content. I chose to use a more abstract concept, composing mainly with shapes and typography. The palette with shades of red expresses the inner conflicts of a journey of self-knowledge, as well as desire and yearning - for the life he had before the accident. The horizontal divisions represent the steps and stages of life that we all go through, while the vertical ones symbolize a path to the future.
Vale a Pena
posters_typographical composition + photograph*
What is worth in life?
It was from this question that we began to think about what was important to us during the COVID-19 Pandemic, in the first half of 2020.
A group of students from the Design and Graphic Production subject, taught by Hugo Fortes at the USP School of Communications and Arts, dedicated themselves to interpreting this theme graphically, myself included.See the full project here (in Portuguese).
*photographs by Laura Toyama (voar), Anca Gabriela on Unsplash (areia) and Hudson Hintze on Unsplash (dançar)
Sun in Motion
digital animation
you’re looking at a screen recording of 82 static frames, due to a lack of exporting options. breathe it in. and out. don’t ever ignore your spark.
the H composition
typographical composition
Hs on canvas, 2021. A spontaneous collaboration between two friends obsessing over the Figma font problem. With @m_ui.design
one day a t-shirt
digital composition
personification_car face
drawing (vectorized)
global citizen_mondrian
digital composition
