The Observer - Course Project
“Hoje eu fui no Borough Market” (Today I went to Borough Market)
The brief for this project was to make a guide to a location for an assigned audience - my parents. Being an international student and considering my parents wouldn’t visit the market itself I decided to guide them through my own visit, to take the market to them and bring them closer to me. So I made a book loaded with textures showing what I would point out to them if they were with me, writing in Portuguese as if I were talking and relating the market to our memories.
V&A Drawings
Brazilian Summer Book
Self-directed project
Home-made sketchbook with drawings and prints from my trip home over Christmas.
“Wish I Was There” - Course project
This was a short project in which we were assigned 17 tasks to do and choose one to develop further. The one I chose was ‘Make a postcard inspired by the title ‘Wish I was there”, in which I referred to a dinner back at home. To develop it further, I explored the duality of missing home and making the most of my experience studying art in London, and made two mini zines, small enough that I could take them with me anywhere to remind me of why I came here and bring some comfort when I need it.
Mini zine: Why I’m Here
Mini zine: What Takes Me Home
Text Imagined - Course project
For this project I created responses to an extract from the book “Springtime in a Broken Mirror”, by Mario Benedetti. The book tells the story of Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay and his relationship with his family in exile, and the extract shows his daughter’s (Beatriz) perspective of life in a new city and especially its skyscrapers. I decided to approach it as if she was making drawings to go with a letter to show all of that to her father.
Animation
Text Imagined
Storyboard inspired by Ann West’s Patchwork with short animation and flip book
Text Imagined
Riso zine of the drawings Beatriz sends to her dad
Animatic
Text Imagined
Beatriz’s Skyscraper interactive model
Inspiration: Culture, home and family
My favourite film: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki’s Delivery Service is my favourite film for the comfort and joy every aspect of it brings to me, while also inspiring my work.
A successful piece of visual communication: Maggie Cowles’ “Quiet Nights In” series, 2021
I find this series of drawings very effective in representing the emotions surrounding the meals, it conveys beautifully an environment of comfort and warmth around food. Maggie Cowles has been a big source of inspiration in my recent work because of her ability to create joyful and dinamic drawings even of empty rooms.
