and Independent Publisher based in Los Angeles.
and Independent Publisher based in Los Angeles.
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I’m a Brazilian Creative Director, Designer, and Visual Artist working across brand identity, visual communication, editorial design, and independent publishing. My practice moves between strategic thinking and hands-on making, bringing together culture, materiality, and a strong interest in how design shapes the ways we see, understand, and relate to the world.
Over the past 15 years, I’ve collaborated with global brands, cultural institutions, and creative studios, including Coca-Cola, MoMA, Natura, Havaianas, Pratt Institute, Nubank, Live Nation, Nike, and the University of São Paulo, as well as Wieden+Kennedy, AlmapBBDO, AKQA, Tátil, Wunderman Thompson, WMcCann and David. At Nubank, I contributed to the development of a global brand ecosystem, working across visual systems, consistency, and flexibility in different markets and touchpoints. My work has received a Cannes Lions Gold, Clio Awards, Latin American Design Awards, and Brasil Design Award.
I see design as a cultural practice, one that extends beyond aesthetics to engage with real-world questions, shape narratives, and imagine alternative futures. I’m particularly drawn to projects with a tangible purpose, where research, collaboration, and conscious ways of making become part of the creative process.
Print and materiality hold a special place in my practice. I’m fascinated by the relationship between ideas and their physical forms. Paper, ink, typography, texture, scale, and the possibilities of making. Craft is not simply an aesthetic choice, but a way of thinking and exploring ideas.
Alongside my creative direction and design practice, I founded Satélite Books, an independent publishing platform dedicated to artist books and experimental editorial projects. My independent work moves across bookmaking, sculpture, ceramics, painting, and other material explorations. It has been exhibited and presented at MAM São Paulo, the São Paulo Biennial Pavilion, Goethe-Institut, Anita Schwartz Gallery (Rio de Janeiro), Printed Matter (New York), and Jersey Art Book Fair.