studium . creative studio
2019 — present

⋅ Responsible for the creative processes development of studium . creative studio .
⋅ Dedicated to communication design projects – digital and print, art direction, architecture and product design (see awards section)
⋅ Focused on leading multidisciplinary teams, as well as manage project and clients.
. Responsible for the studio creative, processual and strategic approach, like in communication trends, language, style and the posicioning with clients and peers.
. Proximity relation with the inherent to creative development bureaucratic processes.
. Project management in direct contact with different technical, creative or institutional teams – leadership, control, definition of communication agents, among other duties associated with the position.

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AMMP Brand & Management Agency
2014 — present

⋅ Responsible for the development of branding processes at AMMP Brand & Management Agency.
. Dedicated to naming (POPKISS, WNDER, DOMODOMO), creative strategy, brand direction and management, communication and project planning.
⋅ Focused on the activation of the different agents (from the client to the creative teams).
. Close relationship with the client’s business strategies as well as the constant analysis and improvement of their brand.

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studium . creative studio
2014 — present

⋅ Responsible for concept and visual trends development, implemented on multidisciplinary and interdepartamental projects, namely at the intersection of communication design and architecture, through visual identities, signage, among others.

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MONSTRUKTOR, the author
2014 — present

⋅ Curator, editor and art director of the author Sérgio Miguel Magalhães.
⋅ Responsible for the compendium of the author’s writings, such as the 04 books:

Future blue — 2022, Hórus publisher #The last 140 characters, vol.3 — 2014

#QOTD + #No longer QOTD, vol. 2 — 2013
#QOTD, vol.1 — 2013

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Blog awcat
2013 — present

⋅ Personal interpretation of what surrounds me, with small essays avid for conscience and comment, a reflection of my personal and professional position.
⋅ Author of short texts and considerations from the most wide range thematic spectrum.

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PT Made
2014 — present

⋅ Creator in a brand dedicated to product design studium . creative studio .

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Patron for curricular internships from Soares dos Reis Artistic Secondary School
2018 — 2020

⋅ Responsible for guiding and integrating students in methodological processes, creative stages and decision processes, through a short-term experience at studium . creative studio .

metroquadrado
2012 — 2013

. Graphic designer integrated in multidisciplinary projects of a wide thematic scope and client diversity.
. . Focused on visual identity, editorial, communication design, web design, architecture projects, among others.

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KMS Team
2010 — 2010 (Munich, Germany)

⋅ Graphic designer integrated in different communication design projects for clients such as Vodafone and MAN trucks.

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Nido Magazine
2010 — 2010 (Munich, Germany)

⋅ Graphic and editorial designer, dedicated to the pagination of various editions of Nido Magazine, from Stren group.

Aalto University
2024

⋅ Course on service design and the relationship between design, the designer and the user.

Aalto University
2024

⋅ A course dedicated to a broad knowledge of design as a discipline.
. Research into sustainability, collaboration, innovation and management, among others.

ESAD
2024

⋅ Development of skills in the exploration of concepts and fundamental principles of thought.
. Learning processes, techniques and tools for cooperation and the development of entrepreneurial or intra-entrepreneurial projects aimed at solving problems or exploiting opportunities.

EDIT . Disruptive digital education
2023

⋅ Brand management, brand position, identity & equity, trends and consumer knowledge in digital channels, management in the digital world.

CRIAP Institute
2022 — 2022

⋅ Presentation techniques, didactic resources, public discourse among other competences.

2021 — present

⋅ Art direction for creative visual branding / Creative writing: bringing your story to life / Storytelling for brands / Fundamentals of memorable brand naming / Worldbuilding: Discover the fantasy narrative / Analog data visualization for storytelling / Copywriting: principles of writing for advertising / Daily sketch /Adobe InDesign CC – Advanced Training Course / Adobe Illustrator CC – Advanced Training Course

Key School
2019 — 2019

⋅ Team management techniques, criteria and leadership models, among other themes.

ESEIG
2006 — 2009

⋅ Course focusing on the practical and theoretical nature of graphic design.

2023
. Winner of the competition – Archetype 2023: INNOVATION award – promoted by the Order of Architects (OASRN) and N41º.
. Winner of the competition – Archetype 2023: MASTER award – promoted by the Order of Architects (OASRN) and N41º

2019
⋅ Winner of the competition – Competition of Ideas: Exhibition and Mobile Projector – promoted by Visual Spaces of Change (VSC U. Porto – CCRE-CEAU/FAUP)

2019
.Design Systems — promoted by Porto Design Biennale, in the scope of the 03 workshops I attended (Impossible Methods — Luiza Prado and Pedro Oliveira, News That Will Change the World — Belle Phromchanya, Means of Production — Ruben Pater).
. Creative installations inserted in the urban areas of great flow, such as the Porto metro stations.

⋅ Portographic — created and promoted by studium . creative studio , in a critique of 2019’s Porto.
. Art direction, curation and visual communication content production, exhibition and media implementation.
. Communication design team coordination.

2018
⋅The UNbuilt Series — created and promoted by studium . creative studio within the scope of the selection for the architecture month by Ordem dos Arquitetos of secção regional do norte.
. Art direction, curation and visual communication content production, exhibition and media implementation.
. Communication design team coordination.

⋅ Co-author of the Monography A Narrativa do Percurso about the 20 years of studium . creative studio .
⋅ Participation in the book Modes of Criticism #05 about Porto Design Biennale 2019 — Francisco Laranjo’s edition.

⋅ International Assembly Festival (INTL)
→ 2023 edition with Mirko Borsche, Can Yang, Patrick Thomas, Shivani Parasnis, DesignStudio, Annie Atkins, Zhongkai Li, Porto Rocha, Ruben Pater, Neo Neo

⋅ Future London Academy
→ Design Leadership Series with Justine Lançon from Mejuri, Fede Garcia from BCW, Josh W Higgin from Atlassian, Kate Stanners from Saatchi & Saatchi and Tiffany Rolfe from R/GA
→ Branding in the Era of the Goldfish with Asa Cook from Intertype Studio
→ Why Creative Leaders Make Great Business Leaders with Huge Inc
→ Mirko Borsche
→ Branding Process: From an Initial Concept to a Refined Direction with Robyn Butler and Campbell Butler from Lovework Studio
→ Building Better Design Teams with Marc Maleh and Matt Hexemer from HUGE
→ How to Create Strong Brands with Ekaterina Solomeina
→ How to be More Creative with Thierry Brunfaut from Base Design

. Clube da Criatividade de Portugal
→ Masterclass – Estratégia: da Criação do Negócio à Marca with Joana Sepúlveda
→ Masterclass – Digital Acceleration with Pedro Patrício

⋅ Colectivos PLÁKA
The time(s) of Contemporaneity I / Politics of Survival / To School Out of School / The time(s) of Contemporaneity II / Práticas Pós-Nostálgicas / Love and Garbage / Desejos Compulsivos

. Futuress
→ An Anti-colonial History of Colors with Luiza Prado
→ Decolonizing Typography with Aasawari Kulkarni and Naïma Ben Ayed

⋅ Anton Vidolke
Citizens of the cosmos

⋅ Forward Festival
Munich 2021

⋅ Porto Design Biennale
Monstrous designs

⋅ Fórum do Futuro
2018, 2019

⋅ Arcada 2019
O futuro do design

⋅ Portas do Tempo Paredes de Coura
Traditional architecture

⋅ AGI Open
Process is the project