While I was living in Japan, I eventually had to work on the design (layout) of printed magazines. In September 2010, along with a friend of mine, we released our first independent magazine in Japan. “Revista Olé” was a Portuguese/Spanish bilingual magazine. Unfortunately, the lack of advertisers led us to give up the project.

After coming back to Brazil, I got a full time job as a graphic designer / art director for a new magazine. “Revista CarManGuia” is a regional publication which brings information about cars, and serves as a guide to great deals on new and used vehicles.

Visit the “Magazines” page of the portfolio to check them out.

It took me some time to update my portfolio. This time, I have added TWENTY new jobs to the advertisements page.

Go there and check them out!

I decided to use some of my free time on these holidays to make a major update on my website.

For starters, I have changed the design of the website. Now it is simpler, and faster to load.

Coming soon: new content on the portfolio pages.

Hope you enjoy the changes. Happy New Year!

I have recently updated the website for “The Aquatic Turtles Manual”, a great training program for those who want to know more about the proper procedures and techniques for exceptional caretaking of the Painted and Red-eared Slider Aquatic Turtles.

If you are somewhat interested in the subject, I suggest that you check it out: turtlemanual.com

I recently created a logo and two animated sprites (a rocket and a trophy) for an upcoming game called “Acro Blast”. Here are the images.

Recently I had to do a simple freelance job, using Firefox browser to measure some download speeds. I noticed that Firefox was slower than usual, and then I decided to use SpeedTest.net to do a quick test. I got surprised with the results. See for yourself:

Firefox

Chrome

Safari

Internet Explorer 8

All the tests were taken on the same day, at about the same time. I know that SpeedTest.net now is sponsored by Google Chrome, but the lack of speed when using Firefox was alarming. I recently made Chrome my default browser after more than 5 years using Firefox, and I must say that these results made me happy about that change.

I spent the past day looking through my files and choosing which images to include in the portfolio section. Weird thing is that I always choose the same images. At least, this time the portfolio is nicely organized, split into many pages, according to the type of job.

As I intend to add more images in the future, the portfolio pages will grow larger. I might even need to create some sub-pages, like “3D Images – Part 1″, “3D Images – Part 2″, etc. Hopefully this will happen soon, meaning that I am getting lots of work. :)

Well, after being offline for quite a while (changing hosting provider, updating WordPress, etc.), my website/blog is back online. This time I have decided to make it bilingual, in English and Portuguese. Please notice that some content will only be available in one language, depending on the subject. Anyway, I will try to post almost everything in both languages.

The general format of the website will be blog-like. By default, all comments will be subject to approval/moderation. For my professional activities, I will create pages like: resume, portfolio, etc.

Welcome, thanks for your visit, and feel free to leave suggestions and comments.