Illustration Archive

Before I learned about design and its application, I spent endless hours illustrating and painting. As I moved onto the PC as my primary creation tool, I quickly adopted Adobe Illustrator as my companion. These are some of the projects I created over the subsequent years for print and web mediums.

In 2000 I created a website dedicated to hosting various concepts and experiments. It was part of a collective effort called “May First Reboot” where hundreds of artists and designers committed to refreshing their sites simultaneously on May 1st. I was lucky to win that year’s prize for best website.

Above is a preview of the actual site, which was quite unusual and yet very fitting for its time where web interactions were being pushed to new heights.

As part of the site, I created this series of illustrations named “Color Suspensions”. They were all created spontaneously without much planning and were intended to capture a particular mood or feeling at any given time. The exact words and time were later re-considered and inspired by the image itself.

Above is contribution to IDN’s Flips book Music vs Motion, and below were illustrated elements for a video I created for Nike Presto.

As motion design became my focus, I began to bring this aesthetic into those projects, which in turn pushed me to think differently about them as static artworks to begin with. All of a sudden, I was compelled to convey movement in every design I made, making them more interesting to create and interesting to look at.

Below is an Artist Series project for Adobe, which I named “Build”. On the left is the process of creating the image in Illustrator and on the right is the final piece, which was animated entirely in Adobe After Effects.

Cover and internal design for DVD of my motion design agency Nervo, 2008. The images below were commissioned by Atlanta-based company Artistic Image.

Poster for music artist Plastiq Phantom. Each section of this poster was reflective of one of the album’s songs, all of which came together into one complex composition.

Illustration for Absolut Vodka, depicting Absolut Mandrin flavor.

An illustration for Complex Magazine.

Cover design for Disorder in Progress, the second book I curated for Gestalten.

Poster for NYC-based magazine The Blow Up.

An illustration for the late design blog Design is Kinky.

An illustration for the late ad agency Modernista.

Two illustrations for the book Latino.

A self-portrait for eDesign Magazine, and below are illustrations for Brazilian magazine Simples created in collaboration with Linn Olofsdotter.