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TOAP Records

Patricia Furtado — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:55:22 +0000

Founded in 2001 by the amazing guitar player André Fernandes and his brother Alex, TOAP Records is a jazz label that features an impressive catalog of Portuguese and international musicians.

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.

Xmas Card

Patricia Furtado — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:25:32 +0000

“I’m getting too old for this, sighs Santa, as he pulls yet another all-nighter to finish the online shopping for those annoying last-minute Dear-Santa emails.”

Ines Feliciano Christmas Email

Patricia Furtado — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:31:05 +0000

While still working on a shinny new website for my friend and amazing ceramics conservator and restorer Inês Feliciano, I came up with a very simple idea for this year’s e-mail Christmas card.

Há vida em Markl

Patricia Furtado — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:08:52 +0000

After having the old and beloved template up for a couple of years, Nuno Markl asked me to redesign his blog in order to make it a bit more sober and minimalistic. It had been decided we’d lose the hand drawings and white background, and instead use a cleaner interface.

To avoid losing a graphic connection to the author, I’ve created a small Markl Universe where small icons that relate to past work and episodes orbit around the header. Hardcore fans will identify all pieces of the puzzle, most readers won’t recognise all. Over time, a few of the icons may even change, being recycled as new objects come into play.

Thanks to everyone at Blogs do Sapo for taking care of all the coding.

On-spot Marketing

Patricia Furtado — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:42:11 +0000

On-Spot Marketing asked me to create a Wordpress template for a very image and information rich website. Pimped with a few well chosen plug-ins, Wordpress is just perfect for this type of website. A treat to work on.

Plug-ins used:
Akismet, the anti-spam, obviously
Cforms II, complete and easy forms
Get custom field values, can’t live without this one
Google Analytics and Wassup, for statistics
NextGEN Gallery and NextGEN Smooth Gallery, for the nice slideshows
Ozh Random Words, for the random tagline
Twitter Tools, for Twitter integration

Haagen-Dazs “Sets and the City”

Patricia Furtado — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:18:56 +0000

Häagen-Dazs are celebrating the launch of a Summer special edition ice-cream with a Wimbledon Tennis Tournament tie-in in the heart of London City, complete with a giant screen to watch the matches, sexy model waiters, celebrity chef appearances, complimentary beauty treatments, and lots of yummy ice-cream.

With a wink to the glitz and glamour of the Sex and the City film coming out this summer, I finally had a chance to create some sexy illustrations for the temporary website that will be promoting this event. Even better, I was allowed to use great amounts of pink! Have to love this job!

Tropicana

Patricia Furtado — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:24:23 +0000

The UK website for the most famous orange juice brand is finally out, after much work and rework, fussing and tweaking, in a spectacular joint effort from all the enotions’ team. And it is still very much work in progress, as new promotions and pages will keep popping in.

Häagen-Dazs “Sets and the City” holding page

Patricia Furtado — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:58:11 +0000

Temporary page for the upcoming site for Häagen-Dazs’ Wimbledon hook-up this Summer. A full site, featuring more of the Sex and the City inspired characters, is coming up, so please check back soon! is already online, please check it out here!

Templates for Sapo Blogs

Patricia Furtado — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:51:30 +0000

When I was invited to create templates for Sapo’s blog platform, I was really excited at the opportunity of finally creating something totally clear from client constraints. As it turned out, it’s a lot harder for me to work in such a free manner. Staring at the blank canvas, it felt a bit more like art than design, but once I got started, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of making completely different styles for the same layout.

The first six templates are finally available for the platform users to chose for their blogs. You can see them here:

Are you serious?, a darker theme to start.
Shinny Happy People, for bubbly teenagers.
The Gazette, to spread the news.
Missangas, for all the crafty people that want to share their creations.
Writing on the wall, for travelers and cat lovers.
Sketchbook, a spin-off of my own site, as requested by Jonasnuts.

These are just preview pages, all filled up with lipsum, the real thrill will be finding real blogs using these templates. If you find some, please leave me a comment with a url, I’d love to check out who my real clients are, after all.

On another note, if you are a Sapo Blogs user, you can also leave suggestions for future templates, I’m looking forward to the second round.

Copella Garden

Patricia Furtado — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:33:45 +0000