By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
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Amid the climate confusion of these times, we get bored on the beaches of the internet. And we want to live more tropical maritime experiences, full of color, music, and rebellion. Therefore, and in keeping with our close relationship with contemporary art, we present this week's topic. Today we open our online space to explore the impressive work of 4 Brazilian designers and illustrators, International geniuses who rank among the best in the world in their field. Here is our seventh digital eighth edition:
Lucas Wakamatsu (https://lucaswakamatsu.com/)
Lucas Wakamatsu is an illustrator and graphic designer who It combines fine arts with audio culture, transforming sound into physical forms through various disciplines such as performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. She lives in São Paulo, where she creates vibrant and eye-catching canvases with fun shapes and bright colors.
His style is characterized by simple shapes and energetic colors, reflecting their identity in each work. Lucas enjoys creating characters and compositions that convey feelings, seeking to produce rich images for brands and products. Experimentation with color palettes and the addition of humor are key elements in his work. With a cartoonish and pop art approach, his works present gothic and unnatural scenarios, imbued with an air of guilt and suspicion, as if they were documents from ongoing investigations. She has worked on significant projects related to mental health, seeking to make a difference in people's lives. Her postmodern vision of painting is communicative, inviting the viewer to approach and confront unsettling messages. She has collaborated with brands such as Apple, YouTube, Coca-Cola and McDonald's, among others.
Paula Cruz (https://paulacruz.com.br/)
Paula Cruz introduces herself in person as a stunning illustrator and a witchy designer. She holds a degree from EBA/UFRJ and a master's degree in Design from PUC-Rio., where he developed research on hybrid publications and new forms of reading. He crossed the Atlantic to study the masters of Dutch design at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She currently lives in Rio de Janeiro and has worked as a design and illustration teacher since 2019. She is the creator of Funkeiro Modernism, a project that unites The irreverence of funk with the sobriety of modernist design in a series of typographic posters. He has worked for clients such as Google, Facebook, YouTube Global, WhatsApp Global, Editora Record, Intrinseca, Descomplica, TAG Livros, Adidas, Asics, Adobe, O Globo, TikTok, Snapchat and Disney+.
Alongside his work and studies, He creates original projects that combine design, illustration, and research, such as books, posters, and comics.
Pedro Correa (https://pedrocorrea.com/)
Pedro Correa is a freelance illustrator who graduated in Graphic Design and works in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. His illustration style It is based on ink (whether analog or digital) and in the use of colors and textures with a retro aesthetic, inherited from his passion for comics. Their main clients are in the entertainment field, such as advertising and television, as well as working on the creation of posters and album covers. Throughout his career, he has had the opportunity to work on projects for Showtime, FX, Heineken, Tiger Beer, Netflix, Ford Motors, Sky TV, Pizza Hut, UFC, Moleskine, Uniball, Sector9, Landyachtz, Rolling Stone, High Times Magazine and The Intercept. His rock posters are a collection of unparalleled works of art.
Adhemas (https://adhemas.com/)
Adhemas Batista is a self-taught designer, creative director and digital artist, born in Brazil and residing in Los Angeles since 2006, where he lives with his wife and four children. He has spent almost three decades creating Vibrant and colorful concepts with imaginative appeal, aligned with strategic design solutions. Their goal in every design piece is to create colorful and vibrant art that shines through the dense corporate bureaucracy., supported by a variety of illustrations, typography, animation, and photography.
Over the years, Adhemas Batista has had the pleasure of working with talented individuals and has shared several industry awards with them. Among the most notable awards are 9 Lions at the Cannes Film Festival., including a Grand Prix for Good in 2016 for short animation Malak and the Boat, as well as three Gold Lions, two Silver Lions, and three Bronze Lions for various campaigns. He has also received a Young Creative Award at Cannes Lions in 2003, three Gold Statues at the London International Festival of Creativity, an Emmy Award nomination, a Gold Statue at the Clio Awards, three D&DA Pencils, and four One Show Pencils. Her work was exhibited at Art Basel Miami in 2017 with the group Alternate Your Reality, and she has given lectures all over the world.
In 2007, he was the only Brazilian artist to be part of the Coca-Cola Remix project. His work for Coca-Cola was included in Computer Arts UK's Design of Decade edition (2000-2009) as a milestone in graphic design of that decade. He is also the only artist in the world whose designs were featured as desktop themes in Windows 7 and 8 as part of the product's default offering.
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