Mission: Impossible

Yesterday was a very important day to me. One of the most famous designers in the world, and my personal favourite designer, came to Brazil to give a lecture at my college. I am not going to say his name, do not want people to think I am some sort of ass-kisser or that I like to make advertisements just because he came here. So let's just call him +. So let's begin the story of my day.
Being crazy as I am, I had a mission: to give + a letter I had written especially for him. And in order to do so, I was going to wait for the right moment at end of the lecture when the audience could ask him questions. So I promptly positioned myself in front of the door to the auditorium at 11am, ready to wait 5 hours till the lecture starts. While waiting, I discovered the audience was not supposed to ask questions (but in the end thay did do it) so I started kinda freaking out and replanning the whole thing in my head.

Fase 1:
After guaranteeing that my name was on the list of people that could go into the auditorium, I rushed to the library to write two more copies of the letter. They weren't going to be as carefully made as the first one, but at least I would have two more. And they did come handy later on. After finishing them, I rushed to search for my coordinator, for I had found out that the Graphic Design's course coordinator would meet with +. After looking everywhere I finally found him and explained my desire to give Mr + my letter. I then asked if my coordinator could give him the letter when he met with +. He said he could, but he had no guarantee he would actually be able to meet him, but he would try. So, fase one of my mission was complete.

Fase 2:
I went to the lady who was organising the event that made bringing + to Brazil possible but did not find her. It was only some hours later on, when the lecture was about to start that I finally found her. I explained her my wish for giving him the letter, since I was a huge fan and that it would mean a lot to me. She saw how nervous I was, shaking from head to toe and said she could give the letter to +'s assistant and that I could relax and guaranteed me the letter would get to him. It was a relief, but I wasn't relaxed, not yet. Fase 2 complete!

Fase 3:
Although the organizer of the event guaranteed me the letter would end up in the hands of + I didn't actually see her giving the letter to his assistant. So, I turned the other way round and went downstairs to the exit. And there he was, waiting for his ride to arrive. It was my chance. So I got near him, excused mysef and started to talk to him. It was kinda dreamlike weird but right at the same time. + was very nice and kindly accepted my letter and in the end, he reached out his hand and I shook it. Mission accomplished.

An hour later, I was home. Covered in sweat, tired from all the rush and thrill that day had brought me but with a smile in my face, a smile that seemed unable to be erased. That was the smile of victory. I had met +, I had talked to him and I had a part of my dream made true. So if you ever have a dream, even though it seems the craziest dream and most impossible thing to achieve, pursue it. You will have a lot of hard work (and believe, me, what I told you was not compared to real hard work of others), but in the end if you manage to succeed you will be truly victorious and will feel the luckiest man on earth. Impossible is nothing.

;)
Leo

studio 13 card

Nothing better than waking up in the midday sun, after a night out drinking and have nutella for breakfast! Just like the father from My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding, who thinks that windex is the cure for everything, I have my own theory: that nutella is the food for every occasion. When you're hungry, when you're not hungry, when you just want something to sweeten your life up, when you've got a hangover, when you want something quick, when you want something fancy... Nutella is the solution! :D Now, let's stop with the advertising I'm not being paid to do, and get down to business.

Today I am here to show you the Studio 13 business card that I made, with the same concepts of the logo: minimalist and elegant. The type I used was Futura, like I used on the logo, but I did not modified any character of it this time. On the front it has just the basic information needed, like the name of the designer, its phone, address and e-mail. The colours of the logo are put in the form of small bars that separate the number of the phone, representing the studio's colours. That way, some colour could be added to the front of the card, but in a simple and chic way. On the back, there's the studio 13 logo, proportionally placed not be be too big or too small.
The whole card has a blank background, light and elegant and minimalist, to be in the same graphic language of the logo.

And now before going out to watch a movie, I'm gonna grab something to bite. Perhaps nutella, who knows....
;*


Nada melhor do que acordar no sol do meio-dia, após uma noitada de bebedeira, e comer nutella de café! Como o pai do filme Casamento Grego, que acha que windex é a cura pra tudo, eu tenho uma teoria de que nutella é a comida pra toda hora. Quando você está com fome, quando está com gula, quando quer apenas adoçar sua vida, quando está de ressaca, quando quer algo rápido, quando quer algo chique... Nutella! :D Mas agora, vamos parar de fazer propaganda pela qual não estou sendo pago pra fazer, e vamos aos negócios.

Hoje vou mostrar o cartão do Studio 13, que fiz com os mesmo conceitos da marca, minimalista e elegante. A tipografia que usei foi a Futura, igual no logo, mas desta vez não modifiquei nenhum caractér. Na parte da frente, o cartão possui apenas as informações básicas necessárias, como o nome da designer, seu endereço, telefone e e-mail. As cores da marca são inseridas ali na forma de pequenas barras, que separam os números do telefone, representando as cores do estúdio. Desse modo alguma cor foi adicionada à frente do cartão, mas colocada de modo simples e chique. No verso, há a marca do studio 13, aplicada proporcionalmente para não parecer nem muito grande e nem muito pequena. O cartão todo possui um fundo em branco, leve e elegante e minimalista, para se adequar à linguagem gráfica estabelecida na marca.

E agora, antes do cineminha vou comer alguma coisa. Talvez nutella quem sabe...
;*


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música: Who's That Chick, da Rihanna

5000

It is during a period of a spell of bad luck, with so much stress, and college work, and personal goals to be achieved that my blog reaches its 5000 accesses! I guess that's a good thing amidst so many bad ones right? And this means that people do read this blog and I hope this will help my career...
So thank you for reading my blog, and now I am going to finish a school report so I can be free to rock on the dance floor tonight! Will you join me?
;)




Pois é durante uma fase de inferno astral, com muito stress e trabalhos de faculdade e metas pessoais a serem atingidas, que meu blog chega aos seus 5000 acessos! Creio que isso é uma coisa boa no meio de tantas ruins né? E isso significa que o povo lê, de fato, meu blog e espero que isso vá ajudar minha carreira... Então obrigado por ler meu blog, e agora vou acabar um relatório pra faculdade e então estarei livre pra me acabar na balada hoje à noite! Nos vemos lá?
;)

música: On The Floor, da Jennifer Lopez

Autopropaganda em Inglês

Sim, meus caros, autopropaganda EM INGLÊS! Por que eu sou chique bein! Mas o que acontece é o seguinte: Como a internet é um lugar onde gente de todo mundo está, e eu faço contato com pessoas de mundo inteiro, resolvi que este blog será internacional. Então, a partir de agora os meus posts serão escritos em língua internacional, o Inglês. Não significa que eu não vá mais escrever em português uma vez ou outra, ou se eu tiver saco posso até escrever o post nas duas línguas, mas não sei como vai ser por causa do tempo. Há, o tempo... Eu me lembro quando saía da faculdade e vinha pra casa ver novela e dormir 8 horas ou mais. Ai ai... Credo! Falando assim parece velho né! Então, pessoinhas: estudem, trabalhem, façam projetos pessoais e não tenham mais temo pra nada! Desse modo vão ficar ricos e famosos e ser bons no que são! Mas lembrem-se de descansar! Fim de semana é pra isso hein? Por isso, uma frasezinha pertinente do sábio Dalai Lama:
"Os homens perdem a saúde para ter dinheiro. Mas depois perdem o dinheiro pra tentar ter saúde."

E agora vamos à parte nova do blog:

Determined to have this blog read by people from all around the world, I decided to write some posts in English, and this is the very first of them. And what's best do start a new tradition than to talk about myself? After all, I am very modest as you know... NOT!(típica piadinha americana)
I have just revised my portfolio, included some new works, refined some old ones and it is ready to be shown to he world! The description of the works is still in Portuguese because this ortfolio is linked to my university's website (which is in Brazil) so its best to stay that way. But if anyone wants an English version of my portfolio you can e-mail me and I will send you a PDF of it. Click the image below to see it!


And to continue my self advertising I have to give you my business card, of course. So here it is!

I hope you all like my work and I am always willing to hearing critiques. That's how I will grow as a Graphic Designer and Person!

;)


PS. Forgive my English spelling or vocabulary mistakes, if there is any, okay?