I am quite sure this won't be a "crowd pleaser" but the magic of art, music and photography is to most people it can be irrelevant and to others it can be bliss.
I take way too many photos and every once in a while I stumble upon images that really inspire me, images that really mean something to me.
It's hard to explain, don't know if its the geometric lines and typography or the nostalgic feeling of standing alone on a train station in the middle of a snow storm but there is something about this image that I really dig. Hope you enjoy as well.
Take care and see you around.

Simple exercise of style with the box-heads that I so much love....
Enjoy

One of my obsessions is "contrast", Contrast between new and old, contrast between elegant typography and hand drawn letterforms and contrast between organic and geometric, besides repetition and patterns so this exercice was something that I really enjoyed doing and something that I am really proud of. Hope you enjoy these organic/geometric patterns designed to be used as wallpaper.

This came to mind as a reaction to the fact that in recent times allot of people have been really dissing my home country but no one is doing anything to make it better, even if by doing something would be to shut up instead of criticizing it in ridiculous forms, so I decided to use some traditional tile work that can be found in plentyful fashion in Lisbon and the phrase Kick Him When He's Down in a reference to that...

This is my own take on fatherhood, yes I will soon be the father of a baby boy and that has been quite a bit on my mind lately and this image really kept coming back to me so I decided to put ink to paper and create this drawing. Hope you enjoy.

A drawing of a marriage ceremony... In a sense.

While walking the streets of Lisbon, I was always fascinated by the amalgam of posters put up on walls, and how they deteriorated and the natural decay of the paper created these amazing textures- the paper, the typo, the faded colors, the intercation between graphic design and arquitecture, ..., ...
Moving away from Lisbon one of the things that I gradually started to miss was this juxtaposition of urban textures so I decided to explore this theme myself on my own art and here is one of the first results.
Old newspapers, old photographs pasted together to build up a textured background of type, colors, decay and even a few comic strips. These works reflect me in an almost perfect way, having all the elements that have influenced me and drove me for the last two decades so it is only fitting that explore these elements.Hope you enjoy as much as I do.

This is the second piece done over some old pieces of paper taken from old journals. Hope you enjoy.

A typography poster for the Lisbon based band BlessTheOggs

A series of drawings of my left hand

A drawing of a character deep in personal reflexion.

Three original ink drawings that took part in my Overcoming The Slump solo show. 2009.

Two drawings and two paste ups.

This was a graphic design job I worked on awhile ago. It consisted of creating the Identity for an agency that focused on non-conventional approaches to communication. I was the Art Director for BC for a few months before the person responsable decided to shut it down to concentrate on other projects. It was too bad. But at least I kept some cool graphic projects like this one.
Since we worked mainly in urban environments I decided to go with some textures that could be found on the streets so after some experiments I ended up using some old posters that I tore down myself. I then proceeded to choose the right texture and scan it in. After it was the "typical" Copy/Paste shit. I had a version of the poster with some type over it that would be printed in varnish, maintaining the initial graphic intact but with the message "camouflaged" in the poster... like a nice little chameleon.
I really like this work due to its "manual" approach.

In a nutshell...A simple, elegant page layout done with really nice typography and an interesting grid...