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Copan Building - São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo is one of the biggest cities in the world, with almost 13 million people living there. This is one of the most famous buildings in the city, Copan from the architect Oscar Niemeyer.

This picture got my attention, not only because it shows the magnitude of the build, where almost 5 thousand people live, but besides this huge grey block of concrete in the middle of the city centre, we can see this amazing street art. It is impressive to see this contrast of this colourful art in these buildings with the concrete colour of Copan at the back. This kind of street art is very common in São Paulo. As someone natural from this big city, I always liked how this contrasted with more traditional architecture.

Movie Poster - Moon (2009)

As I decided to create a science fiction movie poster for my last assignment, I started to research to get inspiration. While looking for movie posters from real movies on Pinterest, I found this one that I thought is very interesting. I never watched this movie, but it is interesting how they used a simple resource using circles to create a "moon" behind the astronaut. And for me, it is a simple but efficient poster to bring a brief about the history of the movie.

Logo created for Desktop Publishing Assignment

I created this logo for the Desktop Publishing class. This logo wasn't the final one chosen by the client. Still, because this is my favourite one, I decided to finish it, using some colours inspired by Art Deco, as the shapes that inspired me to create this was also from this popular design style.

9th of may is Victory Day, a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. The picture shows soldiers from the Soviet Union after The Battle of Berlin. We can see the soldiers raising a USSR flag over the Reichstag building as a victory signal.

This is a powerful image. Even though it is a black and white poor resolution picture due to its taken period, the photo can transport us to that day. The importance of images and photos in our lives are more than just registering our favourite moments; it is also hugely important how this is a resource to tell humanity history.

Illustration by Sarah Caos

Another political illustration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro related to how his government manages the Covid-19 pandemic. With more than 400.000 deaths, the government are being investigated about it is terrible administration and the possible impact of Bolsonaros negationism on the horrible number of deads in Brazil.

The illustration shows the anger and pain that the Brazilian population feels. Art is an important way to react and fight, manifesting our feelings. Unlike the previous post with another image criticizing Bolsonaro, this image is more visceral. The illustrator shows us her anger with the typography, the colours, and, more specific the image of Bolsonaro laughing covered with blood.

Illustration from Rae Ritchie

Political art also can be delicate and feminine. This designer made this nice illustration for the USA election, calling all the women to vote.

Illustration from Jhenifer Campos - Instagram: @jhnytatts

The image is a nice mix of traditional Brazilian elements with the traditional tattoo style of drawing. I think it is a great work to modernized both elements, especially the image of the woman, a "cangaceira", which is an important symbol of Brazilian culture.

Logo from the Brazilian Brand Alkimia da Mata

This logo got my attention because of its colour, shape, and typography, especially because of the hands that look like someone praying or doing some ritual. This is a brand of natural skincare products, with an esoteric approach using zodiac signs and other mystical elements to create products and packaging. I think the logo represents the brand's holistic, esoteric, magical and natural vibes.

Movie poster from Netflix for the movie "The Woman in the window".

Movie poster from Netflix for the movie "The Woman in the window". As one of our assignments will be to create a movie poster, I'm already researching inspiration. In this one, what got my attention is how the designer created a fake window, giving us the impression that the actress is looking through it, using only two black and white shapes. It is also interesting how the typography gives us a big clue about what kind of movie it is.

Howth Seaside, Dublin - by Claire Prouvost

The artist creates a nice and colourful illustration of Howth. I especially like how she uses only shapes, texture, and colour to make the landscaping. It shows us that it is possible to create fantastic illustration without great drawing skill, proving that sometimes, creativity is more important than your professional skills.

Illustration from graphic designer Maja Tomljanovic

This illustration got my attention on Instagram. I like how the illustrator represents different types of women, with their unique elements and differences but at the same time brings a sense of belonging to a group, a union between them; even with the differences, they have something in common. I also like that the women don't have a face, transmitting a sense that any of these women could be me or someone I know.

Photo of Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, revisiting their hiding place, Amsterdam, 1960.

As our next assignment is about images and photographs and how we can use them to portray a visual message, this photo got my attention. It is one of the saddest pictures I have ever seen. I think this image shows us all the sadness and pain that Otto is feeling at this moment, after everything he and his family had been through during the Second World War.

The photographer chose to use a black and white image instead of colour even though this photo is from 1960 when colour photos are more common and popular, which is a visual message choice for me, bringing deep, intensity and bigger impact of this sad moment capture in the image.

Image from Marina Amaral, a Brazilian Digital Colourist, specialising in adding colour to black and white photographs, with two books published The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 and The World Aflame: A New History of War and Revolution.

It is amazing to see how her work brings life, colour and a different impression and feeling into the pictures. The old black and white pictures sometimes don't feel "real" and don't transmit feelings like joy, sadness or love, for people who are used to see colourized images, but with her work, Marina shows us another perspective about it. We can feel the happiness on this sunny day on the picture's colourized part while the black and white side shows us an old image for a festive day. She is giving life to these old pictures.

I think it is a great resource to use editing photos programs for this kind of work nowadays. And not only for historical images as Marina has been doing in her books, but it is also incredible that is possible to have pictures of our family and our ancestors in colour now.

#marina amaral

Art is also political. There is a strong connection between art and politics; with many artists doing provocative works, they aim to draw the population's attention to their political position, awakening people's critical census of how art can and should be political too.

This is a strong image for me. We can see the word genocidal repeatedly that with the use of different colours, it is forming the face of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. This art brings a though critique of how his government is dealing with the pandemic after the death of 300,000 people with COVID-19 in Brazil. Bolsonaro is a COVID denialist, and he has been accused of spread fake news about the pandemic, not taking any measures to minimize the virus spread. Unfortunately, the image wasn't signed by the artist who feared repression from Brazilian government.

Studio Grand Père - designer Rafaela Mascaro.

Rafaela Mascaro is a Brazilian designer who works at Studio Grand Père creating illustrations and patterns.

I really like her work. I think she creates beautiful illustrations with many colours, flowers and women, in a daily common scenario, but in a powerful way. With delicacy and harmony, the artist portrays incredible scenes and illustrated ones with patterns also created by her.

#floral pattern #rafaela mascaro #illustration

As a book enthusiast, I think book covers are an important part of our reading process. As we say, we always "judge a book by its cover".

This is a Brazilian book called "As Bruxas da Noite" which means "The night witches" in English. It is about the women in the soviet airforce during WWII. I thought really interesting how the designer of the book cover brought soviet aesthetics to the XXI century, modernizing it. It looks like some art from a Soviet propaganda poster, but how they would look like in 2021.

I also thought it is a very clever choice that even though this is a book in Portuguese(my native language), with some small adjusts and adaptations, the typography on the book cover gives the sensation that it is written in Russian.

Both Pictures on this post are works from Slasky. He is an established painter, photographer, draftsman artist, from Italy. He was fascinated by Caravaggio's The Conversion of San Paolo as a child and dedicated himself to a life of painting, merging classical works of art with contemporary digital art techniques in neo urban classic style. He bridges tradition and modernism, bringing protagonists of the original works of art into contemporary social and artistic environments.

I think Slasky bring a new eye to traditional painting, modernizing it and making it interesting nowadays. One of my favourite painting is The Queen Elizabeth II portrait. By adding the tattoos on her neck and face, a piercing on her cheek, and makeup with red lipstick, he is making her look like a common person for me and not the Queen of Britain. She is just a regular girl, who decides to dress fancy with a crown to going out and have fun. I like how his paintings make me create a background history for the person in the paint.

Some of the Queen's tattoos are very interesting to me, I think it was a nice touch that one of them has her name and her husband name, as the Queen is well known for not be a sentimental person and another one where we can read "Diamonds are forever," which in her case is more than just popular saying, but totally true with this huge crown on her head.

I also like Marie Antoinette paint with the Venetian blind in front of her. It makes me think again about whats the history of this woman and what she is doing there. Is she just observing? Is she waiting for someone? Or maybe, she is hiding from the Revolution.

"Art is not representing new things, but representing with novelties." - Slasky

#slasky #neourbanclassic #queenelizabethII #marieantoinette

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