Master's Degree in Screenwriting
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
PROFILE
Strongly experienced, passionate, hardworking Graphic Designer with outstanding creative thinking and project design abilities, havingproduced creative concepts for some of the most famous brands in the world – such as Rolex, LG, Citibank, Jaguar, Santander, among many others. Adept multitasker with theability to bring simultaneous graphicdesign projects to completion with complete efficiency and accuracy.Able to work well both independently or as a member of a professional graphic design team.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
TRIP EDITORA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
• 2014
The Trip Editora publishing company is one of the most acclaimed content strategist companies in Brazil. During my time there, I created content for important Latin American magazines such as the Audi car magazine, Trip, TPM and Natura.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Discuss the exact requirements of the commissioned project with the client.
• Select the most suitable materials and creative styles for each project.
• To design sketches and computer visuals to present to the client.
• Responsible for the final layouts for typefaces, letter sizes and colours.
• Adhere to allocated design budgets and deadlines.
MARKETING GRAPHIC DESIGNER
WISH REPORT, SAO PAULO
• 2013 – 2014
‘Wish Report’ is a publisher that positions its magazines for the high-end consumer market in Brazil, with a particular emphasis on luxury items. I was responsible for designing proposals for Rolex, Mastercard Black, Stella Artois, Santander, Samsung, Piaget, Citroën, LG, Jaguar, Citibank, among others. Some of these concepts were bought by the client and published for their respective marketing campaigns.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To work closely with sales, product marketing, information technology, senior management to ensure that the company’s vision and message was clearly and professionally presented in all of our final designs.
• Play a prominent role in creating a consistent visual language to be used across all marketing channels.
• Create design deliverables for banner ads, print collateral, blog posts, e-mail and websites.
• Brainstorm new ways to create designs that attract target customers.
• Produce design guidelines for partners and agencies.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER INT.
EDITORA ABRIL, SAO PAULO
• 2011 – 2012
Editora Abril is a major Brazilian publisher and printing company, as well as the biggest media holding in Latin America. It is the publisher of ‘VIP’ – a Brazilian men’s lifestyle magazine. This publication sells around 60 thousand copies every month nationwide.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop design briefs by analysing data collated from in-house market research exercises.
• Generate insightful, creative, engaging ideas and concepts in keeping with the company’s vision.
• Design layouts and art working pages ready for print.
• An outstanding member of the team, as mentioned by the editor-in-chief in a magazine editorial, responsible for the creation of VIP magazine’s new visual identity at the time.
• Adapt the magazine layout to digital platforms such as tablets, smartphone apps and websites.
OTHER EXPERIENCES
TYPOGRAPHY ATELIER OF SAO PAULTO (2011)
SENIOR ASSISTANT to the e most important typographer in Brazil, Claudio Rocha, at the typography archives of São Paulo.
2011
This was in the department of typesetting and printing by Linotype machines on experimental projects in typography.
JAMIE OLIVER’S FIFTEEN
SCREENWRITER for a video campaign to raise awareness for Jamie Oliver’s ‘Fifteen’ restaurant, which uses cooking as a potential career path for young unemployed people – specifically those who have fallen out of mainstream education in need of a fresh start in life.
2015
THE FAWCETT SOCIETY
SCREENWRITER for the ‘Mind the Gender Pay Gap’ video campaign.
2015
The project was to create a short film to grab the attention of politicians regarding the implementation of ‘Section 78 to the Equal Pay Act’ that helps close the gender pay gap in the UK. The Fawcett Society is the UK’s leading charity promoting gender equality and women’s rights at work, at home and in public life.
QUALIFICATIONS
BACHELOR’S DEGREE GRAPHIC DESIGN • 2010 – 2012
IED – Istituto Europeo Di Design, São Paulo, Brazil
The undergraduate degree in graphic design prepares visual designers who are capable of devising, programming and creating visual communication, both online and offline, to attract consumers. By combining image and text, I was able to create brand images, advertising, editorial designs, signage designs, web interface designs, typography, colour coding, to achieve a distinction.
SPECIALISATION DEGREE – SCREENWRITING FOR FILM & TV • 2013 – 2014
FAAP – Fundação Alvares Armando, Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
FAAP is one of the most prestigious schools in Brazil, with a particular focus on arts and humanities. The Screenwriting programme provided me with a comprehensive understanding of the TV and film narrative evolution in its different times and trends; it presents methodologies for the analysis and production of scripts.
MASTER’S DEGREE IN FILMMAKING SCREENWRITING • 2015 – 2016
Met Film School, London, UK
The Met Film School is London’s leading provider of practical filmmaking courses, based at Ealing Studios. My final project was to produce a feature length screenplay which demonstrates an advanced critical understanding of appropriate creative industry forms and structures including, as appropriate, audience awareness, aesthetic and commercial considerations.
EXTENSION PROGRAMS
• Fashion and Editorial Production (IED, 2010)
• Typography (IED, 2011)
• Fashion Photography (IED, 2011)
• Journal & Mag. Editorial Management (FMU, 2013)
FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS
• Certificate in Art Direction & Layout; Belas Artes (2013)
• Certificate in App Development for iOS Devices, Apple Developer Programme; Training (2011)
• Certificate in the Introduction to Music Videos; Escola São Paulo (2010)
• Certificate in the Reading and Interpretation of Technical Drawing & AutoCad; Impacta Tecnologia (2010)
