A children’s animated music video about good manners, created for the album “As Canções da Maria” by Maria de Vasconcelos. The video is based on the characters created by Nuno Markl for the artwork of this fantastic collection of songs to help kids learn school subjects with music. It’s a fantastic project to be involved in.

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Promotional video montage of some of the subjects in “Caderneta de Cromos”, by Nuno Markl, a book about the 70s and the 80s. This was used as an intro for the book launch events.

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“O filho de mil homens”, the new novel by Valter Hugo Mãe, will be presented today at Livraria Ler Devagar, in Lisbon. For this event, I was invited by the publishers Editora Objectiva to paint a reproduction of the book’s cover on the bookshop’s massive door, and documented the process on a short time lapse video.

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New website for Casa das Quintas - a rural development in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal, owned by friends of mine, where I had the pleasure of spending a delicious few days a while ago. It’s the perfect place to get away from the world and enjoy some peace and quiet, surrounded by beautiful landscape, in a charming yet modern and very comfortable accommodation, and this very simple website hopefully reflects all of that.

This small but fantastic team also features Marc Palmer, Seb Grant, both amazing programmers I have worked with for a long time now, and Chris Denman, who I have yet to meet personally, also a very talented developer. I’m responsible for design / illustration and occasionally some html/css coding. Our first project is finally in Beta stage and will be announced pretty soon.

It allows you to look for unusual locations where you can participate in the local community and volunteer to help with projects that can go from building a school to wild life protection actions. This content rich website was designed to accommodate an incredible amount and variety of information, and still remain simple and user-friendly.

The new packaging was decorated with a collection of illustrated animal characters. On the website, we extended the packaging design to create a land and sea world for them, and designed a series of games and activities for the kids to dowload and print based on them.

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The website was designed to contain and organise a great amount of information about the musicians and records and yet remain clean and subdued, somehow taking backstage to the beautiful imagery of the album covers.