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DESIGNER - multi-tasker mgralheiro@gmail.com +351 96 7873629

Portuguese23 anos

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, LONDRES,

UK

dittopress.co.uk

Do the Green Thing

Internship as a designer supporting on research, communication of wooloo productions and general administration. From August to October.

Internship for the printing studio retouching artwork, assisting with printing and general administration. From April to June.

Internship researching new business opportunities, brainstorming creative solutions with the team and creating print and digital communication supports for campaigns. From February to June.

Attended courses, exploring new techniques and concepts enriching my vision and method of Design. Experience Design, 100 Design Projects & Experimental Printmaking.

Wooloo.org

UNIVERSITY of SALFORD,

MANCHESTER, UK

UNIVERSIDADE de AVEIRO, PT

Exchange program, ERASMUS duration of 2 semesters.On the 1º semester: developed print and digital Graphic Design projects (analysis and creation of comunication supports, introdution to Dreamweaver).On the 2º semester: attended Visual Arts course, exploring diferent printing techniques. Production and montage of a video and sound instalation.

Graduated in DESIGNMain qualifi cations: Graphic, Editorial, Communication and Product Design, History and Theory of Design, Typography, creative and strategic thinking, Identities creation and Materials. 2005 - 2009

Leafl et production for the percussion show of an African woman group.September

Finka Pé, Moinho da Juventude, Cova da Moura

Helped planning and divulging the artistic event, “Roominations”; presented a video and sound Installation. April.

“Roominations”, University of Salford

Produced the restaurant’s business card and leafl et. Gave support in the development of its graphic and communication strategy.

Salpoente, Aveiro, PT

Creation of the presentation of Alma Lusa for a talk in Serralves. Support on the communication at the shop.

Alma Lusa, Rato, Lisboa

Since 2006, creation of communication devices for several social and cultural events; Worked on several part-time and holiday jobs (restaurants, bars, festivals, markets, events promoting).

Languages

Computer skills

Interests

Portuguese (mother tongue)Fluent in English: attended the International House, until level 11.IELTS 6,5 Spanish, excellent understanding of the written and spoken language, good oral expression.

Advanced use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel e PowerPoint), Adobe Master Collection (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign & Premiere) and Apple Final Cut Pro.

Travel through Europe and the Unites States. I like craft working for its authentic and manual manipulation.All the Arts but in particularly: Video, Image, Sound, Print and Performing.

z The project proposal was to choose a theme and

redesign its promotional language in a leaflet. I chose

organic chocolate to draw the attention of to the benefits

of eating better-quality sweets. The folded shape looks

like a bitten chocolate bar; when open, it becomes a

poster with a typographic composition.

Choco | leaflet

Roominations | video & sound installation I created a video and sound installation based on the

theme COW-CHEW-RUMINATE-COWBOY.

It was projected in the event Roominations, at

Salford University. I made the cowboy chew like a cow

whilst doing typical cowboy gestures, such as

spittin’, shootin’ and whooping’.

The two small images show how the exhibition was set

up; the sepia pictures of a cowboy show a

sequence of actions.

In a more ambitious project, I developed a proposal for

a bigger scale exhibition of installations and happenings.

The image of two cowboys projected in a gallery room

interacting between them only in the shooting scene.

Open act with cows outside the gallery. Cowboy statue

with a face projected of a cowboy doing cowboy stuff that

in sudden fl ashes shows a cow mouth chewing.

Roominations | video & sound installation | proposal 2

VeggieTables | eventThe requirement for this project was an experience to

increase understanding of and interest in the food chain

to urban youngsters from 7-11 years. The location

criterion for this event is public and private schools.

I have chosen to represent the vegetables since they are

the major pie slice in the food wheel and the less

appreciated by this age average.

The Green Van is mobile greenhouse, equipped with

supermarket style shelves as containers to grow the

vegetables. It will be given the opportunity to the students

to pick and plant the greens. In this phase they will learn

about the origin of the vegetables from seed to harvest.

The youth then will have the opportunity to try the

different tastes of delicious homemade recipes with the

freshly collected vegetables and herbs.

By the end of the event the students will receive a flicker

book illustrating the growing process of some vegetables.

With this project we can visualize the alphabet made up

of various fruits and vegetables. The brief was to select a

topic for the creation of the letters, photograph them and

manually highlight the letters’ shape. I chose these

elements because of their various organic shapes.

Alphavegan | typographic font

The idea was to re-design this traditional Portuguese

brand of pencils, which has been suffering from

competition from mass production of stationary. I wanted

to make the brand look younger in order to attract new

customer groups. I associate the classic illustrations of

the brand with Pop Art.

Viarco POP | packaging

Merchandizing goods for a brand of sustainable design

business. To spread the name of our brand we created

smart low-cost products such as handmade hessian tea

bags and post cards made with recycled paper; these

post cards came with a seed and could be planted.

Criar | post card

Baselinesix | logo, posterI created an electroclash music entity, whose ethos is

expressed through the font and colors used.

The fact that the word is illegible makes it only

recognizable to the target group.

Lander | illustrationAn analysis and illustration of a brand, Lander, which

existed in the Portuguese market until the 1950s. I have

chosen their product Lander Lavender; playing with its

sonority, I came up with an abbreviation and new

meanings followed by the illustration of a cop holding a

deodorant as a weapon.

Invisible Cities | typographic illustrationsBased on the book “The Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino, I

developed typographic illustrations of two cities.

1. Valdrada, sits on a lake, has a twin sister

in its reflection.

2. Árgia, is under the ground, compact and dark bold,

represented by tight type.

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Glove Love | posterA Green Thing initiative to collect lost gloves, pair them

and sell them. The aim is to reuse and don’t buy new.

The gloves on the posters show a friendly gesture to call

people’s attention and the font is sown in wool.

Do The Green Thing | online bannerDesing for an online advertising banner.

Las Vegas design style.

Salpoente | flyer & business cardPromotional flyer and business card for the restaurant

Salpoente. The venue is in an old salt storehouse in a city

close to the sea. The image is an old photography of a

salt worker surrounded by piles of salt. Both supports are

the same image but with different details.

Finka Pé | leafletShow program for the Finka Pé show that performed

in 2009 for the first time in Paris. The group is related to

the cultural association Moinho da Juventude that works

with the neighbourhood Cova da Moura in Lisbon.

This female group performs dance and music traditional

from Cape Verde.

Spider Land | screen printsSeries of photographs during my stay in Salford,

Manchester. This area has a reputation for nasty, insecure

and is full of cobwebs. To be print on top of old

postcards, I called these screen prints Spider Land.

Series of images printed in manual techniques:

1. Natural Beauty – photo etching – four expressions

of my friend tipsy.

2. Henry – etching – way of using Henry,

the vacuum cleaner.

3. MUU – woodcut – onomatopoeia

on the outline of the figure.

Prints

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Solo | product | contest AçoresComboWicker craft is slowly losing dynamism in the Azores

and the pieces created in the archipelago need to be

diversified and reinterpreted. To help modernize this

tradition I thought on creating sandals soles

to endorse the material experience.

Solo | product | contest AçoresComboThe brief was to create a functional object. Based on the

origin of the articles made on wicker and in their main

functions, my object combines transportation and

protection. I thought of it as a material experience with a

direct contact between man/material and material/earth.

The structure is made of a single string, rolled up into foot

sole shape. The string is made of a wicker sticks warped

and sewn in every loop by a thinner layer of the same

material. For the stripe reuse of internal pips rubber.