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March 26th, 2007
I have recently started a new design and animation studio called Nervo here in Portland, OR. I'm currently gathering a database of designers, animators and 3D artists for freelance opportunities as well as for potential full-time positions. If you're interested, please send links of your work as well as a brief description of your skills and experience to jobs @ nervo.tv.
March 26th, 2007
Stash has has released its 30th issue and both my animation for FuelTV and Telecine ID's made into their selection.
January 30th, 2007
Today Microsoft has realeased a large batch of new Office products along with its new Vista software. I'm happy to announce that for the last 13 months I have been working with Avenue A | Razorfish in the creation of the illustrations for the front of box packaging of all of the Office products.
The agency took part in the design of the actual clear box, type and layout of the box as a whole and my task was to create the illustrations that represent each one of the almost 30 products Microsoft is releasing. This has been, by far, the longest project I've beeen involved with to date, but it's also been really great to be part of a process where the end product is seen world wide and in more than 70 languages.
I still don't have any photos of the real boxes to post online since I have yet to see them in person myself. But if you're curious, please visit microsoft.com and look around in the Office section. The link on Wikipedia is also a good reference. I'll be posting photos and digital previews as soon as I get a hold of the boxes. Hope you enjoy.
January 3rd, 2007
I've started a Flickr Group on the subject of Motion Graphics. Anyone want to join?
January 3rd, 2007
I've just posted a new piece I've recently finished for Fuel TV, which was shown for the first time yesterday during their "Daily Habit" show.
December 30th, 2006
A new article on Boards Magazine showcases some of the recent work produced for Nike, including the 3 animations I have recently posted on my site. The print version of the magazine should be more interesting to take a look at. Grab one if you have a chance.
December 29th, 2006
The monthly DVD magazine Stash has come out with its 28th issue. Get your copy to see my latest work for Nike's Winter Campaign. Also check out Nothing Magazine's 13th issue with a mini-interview including some questions about the Disorder in Progress Book.
October 1st, 2006
Some of my animations will be shown at the Art Festival Visiónica 06 in Spain this month. If you are in the area make sure to attend as it should be a fun event.
September 24th, 2006
I've updated the skin of the website and added either larger images or close-up for all of the illustrations so visitors can see more of their details. Hope you enjoy.
September 23th, 2006
The animation "Defective" that I created for the Getty Images "The Next Big Idea" project earlier this year has a little feature in the new backstory section that Getty has recently added to their website.
September 10th, 2006
Quick news: The prices on the "Disorder in Progress" Book and all of the other items in my Store Section have dropped.
July 28th, 2006
My server was down today so if you've tried to e-mail me and the message did not go through, please re-send.
July 19th, 2006
My long road trip through the US is coming to an end when we arrive next week in Portland. In the meantime some articles came out both on Computer Arts in England, this featuring several Brazilian Graphic Designers, including myself. And one in Brazil in the "Revista Web Design", which supposivelly has about 16 pages on my work.
While in Los Angleles we saw some of the latest work by my wife Linn being put up at the Figueroa Hotel walls. Check it out in person if you are in the area. It looks really amazing.
June 2nd, 2006
The latest issue of Res magazine has a little article on my "Disorder in Progress" book.
June 2nd, 2006
This t-shirt design I've made was part of a Japanase project where designers worldwide were invited to create a design to represent their country. I'm representing Brazil, of course, and you can read a bit more on their website (Japanase Only).
June 1st, 2006
"Defective" will also be shown at the Distillery Open Studios that happens this Saturday in South Boston.
May 21st, 2006
I'm happy to announce that my latest video "Defective" will be touring at the 10th Onedotzero Event. It will be part of the "Wow + Flutter" programme. If you make it to that show, check it out.
May 14th, 2006
I'd like to reinforce to everyone that since October 2004 I no longer have an association of any kind with the motion graphics studio "Nakd". Even-though the company was built on the work Linn and I designed and creative directed, the studio is now being run by another team of designers, so the work they produce does is not related to us and vice-versa.
May 12th, 2006
My presentation at OFFF ended up being yesterday. It was a lot of fun! Thanks for everyone that came around to see some of my work and also to watch Darrin perform!
May 1st, 2006
This coming May 11th, 12th and 13th I will be participating in the OFFF event in Barcelona along with my friend Darrin. Also, I've changed back to my old shell since the server for Word Press was really slow. I'll implement this later when I have more time to install and set it up on my server..
April 30th, 2006
My wife and I are planning a road trip over the summer. Our plan is to leave Boston heading south all the way to Florida, then head west until we reach California and then head up towards Oregon. During our trip we will visit the following States: CT, NY, DE, MD (DC), VA, NC, TN, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, NM, AZ, CA and OR.
This is not something we plan on doing again so we don't want to miss anything that is really worth visiting. If you have any suggestions as for places we should go to, and that are on our path, please send me an e-mail to Nando @ nandocosta.com.
March 22nd, 2006
The "Disorder in Progress" book got another online review, this time at Design Boom.
March 31st 2006
I have recently finished a new animation, which was created specifically created for "The Next Big Idea" competition by Getty Images. After a long selection phase, several video artists have submited their videos for the voting phase that started today. In case you enjoy my film, you may vote for it here (third column / second row).
This is the direct link to my video. Unfortunately in order to view the exact link to my video, you need to be logged in, because you must register with Getty before voting. Please do it though! It will help support the hard work that everyone, including myself and my friend Darrin (who composed the music), put into it!
March 22nd, 2006
The "Disroder in Progress" book got another online review, this time at Design Boom.
March 18th, 2006
Die-Gestalten has posted a little interview with me about the "Disorder in Progress" Book.
March 17th, 2006
All the copies of the "Disorder in Progress" book have arrived and they look beautiful. I will be shipping them out on Monday. Make sure to order your copy from the Store Section.
February 24th, 2006
PingMag has just published an online article about my work and my new book. Take a look. Also check out the Store Section I've just added.
February 22nd, 2006
In May I will be going to Barcelona to present at OFFF once again and hopefully showcase some of the projects I have been working on recently.
February 21st, 2006
I'd like to thank everyone from the Nowhere Conference from Steven's Point, Wisconsin. The event was a success thanks to everyone that put it together. Linn & I are very happy to have participated and to have met everyone from the school as well as the other speakers, Kate and Steven. By the way, check out Kate's work on Big Active's website under the Illustration section. Also take a look at the images from the workshop on Flickr.
February 10th, 2006
"Disorder in Progress", the new book that I am printing with Die-Gestalten, has finally been printed. I have posted a lot of photos of the process at Flickr. I will post another note here once the book has reached the stores. I also wanted to announce that the registrations have finally opened for the Nowhere Conference and the workshop that Linn and I will be doing in Steven's Point.
February 1st, 2006
I have just added the Fine Living Network 2003 ID's to the portfolio, which has been waiting for a while to be compressed.
January 21st, 2006
My new book with Die-Gestalten Verlag is coming out at the end of February. It's been a pleasure to work with them again after we released Brasil-Inspired, which by the way has sold out everywhere, so if you are still interested in getting a copy, please check back here as I will be selling a few rare copies at Lard & Joy. Once the new book comes out I will post some more information here as well as photos and images of the artwork I made for it. In the meantime, you can get a preview here.
January 16th, 2006
My friend Darrin Wiener (aka Plastiq Phantom from Imputor) has released some of his music on iTunes, including the album for which I did the cover. You may buy music off iTunes here. It's really great!
January 14th, 2006
Linn and I will be speaking at the Nowhere Conference at the University of Wisconsin this coming February 17th and 18th. (It's an event sponsored by AIGA). There will be a workshop as well. We are not exactly sure how admissions will work for those not related to the school, but if you are interested in coming, please visit the website for more information.
January 10th, 2006
The posters my wife and I sell at Lard & Joy are now also available at The Asylum in Singapore. The address is: Asylum - 22 Ann Siang Road, Singapore 069072 (Phone: 6324-8264).
December 14th, 2005
I am currently looking for a partner to develop a DVD project for next year. This will not be a paid project, it will be simply experimental. If you have in depth experience building DVD interfaces and preferably have experience dealing with the scripts editor in DVD Studio Pro, please contact me. If you don't have these skills but know of a friend that may and could be interested in collaborating, please let me know.
December 10th, 2005
Adobe is currently spotlighting a few designers in their Motion Design Center. I was lucky to be selected as one of the 10 graphic artists. Here is my page.
December 9th, 2005
As of December 22nd, Linn and I will no longer be working at Modernista. We have decided to work on our own and will be open to taking on projects for next year.
December 7th, 2005
It's been a long month and I haven't updated the portfolio in a little while. I've been working on a lot of new projects and it seems like they will all be ready by January at some point. Please check back later for updates. In the meantime you can visit my selection of music at Nitrocorpz's mixtape project. Enjoy the holidays!
November, 11th, 2005
Some of my videos will be shown at the Wired Store that opens next week in Soho, NYC. The video rooms will be called "Spatial Intrusions" and "Degeneration".
November 11th, 2005
Later this month I will be attending Resfest's event in Singapore to participate on a discussion entitled "Culture as a Commodity". Since I have never been to the area, it would be nice to have suggestions on what to do while I'm there. If you have been to Singapore and have any ideas, please send me a message.
October 28th, 2005
Modernista! has just updated their website with new work, which includes most of the work done for Napster. If you have a moment to spare, please visit their website. Although there is a large team working on the brand's new look, Linn, Geoff and I worked on most of the print and outdoor work. I will soon be adding some of it to my website.
September 26th, 2005
I'd like to thank Media Temple for their hosting support, specially after this month's data transfer, which on nandocosta.com alone was 596 gb. I wouldn't have been able to keep all this content up without (mt)! Thanks guys for all your help!s.
September 16th, 2005
In mid November I will be participating in a discussion panel at Resfest, which will focus on motion graphics. I will have the pleasure to present and talk about Brazil in that field,
so I am beginning to collect material for this purpose. Anyone interested in showcasing their work, please send me a message.
with links to work you wish to submit. Please keep in mind that I am primarily looking for work that, whether for clients or for self-promotion purposes, reflects the Brazilian identity.
September 11th, 2005
Thanks also to Jason Kristofer for the spotlight at Newstoday and Mat Mejia for the link at K10K.
September 9th, 2005
I'd like to thank everyone for linking up my new website. I really appreciate the help of Santana Dardot at
Sapien, Chris at Design is Kinky,
Victor Sahate at Eye Punch, Paul Szypula at Surfstation,
Jay at 9 Zaku, everyone at Brasil-Inspired,
everyone at Design Taxi, Eduardo Recife at BD4D,
Lysergid at UAI Lab, the guys from Linkdup,
Marco Magurno at Design Radar, SpiritForm at JustinCone,
everyone at Exeto, People at AvClub,
Spinbalon at 9 Zaku, Fourillusion at FrenchnFresh,
Sean at Infourm, Jon at Ventilate,
People at WTF7, Kai Heuser at Lounge 72,
Madlen at Groove Manifesto, Kai Heuser at Lounge 72,
Basit Khan at Heavy Backpack, whoever does Fake Pilot,
people at Gomma Mag and everyone else whom I might have forgotten to include.
September 5th, 2005
My portfolio is back online and after a short pause I'm slowly getting back at working with animation. In the next few months, I look forward to sharing the new projects with visitors. I'd like to thank Santana and the team at Sapien for the help on creating the FLV player that I am using to show all my animations.
June 19th, 2005
Geoff from Oculart and myself will be presenting together at Flash Forward this coming July in NY. Geoff has recently joined myself and Linn and Modernista!, so we will be showing some of the agency work as well as a few personal projects.
May 16th, 2005
Lard and Joy is a little online store that myself and Linn have created to sell our paintings and prints and it's finally online.
May 1st, 2005
My self and the team at Modernista have just launched their new site.
February 28th, 2005
The latest issue of How Design Magazine has just been released and it includes an article with myself and a few other Brazilian Graphic Artists. Check it out.
February 27th, 2005
As you can see, all of my work has been removed from the website. I am now re-designing it and I plan on having it launched for summer. If you have any special requests to see the work, please send me an e-mail.
February 24th, 2005
My wife Linn has launched her website after having it dorment for such a long period. Please visit Oloffsdotter.com to see her really refreshing illustration work.
December 10th, 2004
Since November 15th, Linn and I have started to work at Modernista!. We were brought up to Boston to start up their multimedia department. So I have officially left the broadcast business but I will be certainly still be producing a few projects both for my self and for them internally. So expect some new work in January. I also have some plans to change the design and layout of hungryfordesign.com.
November 5th, 2004
A new interview has been published to the online magazine Zupi.
October 31st, 2004
Over the past month two interviews were published. The first was part of the issue about Brazilian graphic design on French magazine Étapes is now online. The second was published on Dutch magazine YDN. The book Interplay Interactive Design, published by V&A Contemporary, also quotes some of my work and is quite interesting.
September 22th, 2004
The new issue of the project Audikt is now online. The "Fly" animation I've created with the animators at Nakd is being featured as well as its full length song.
September 15th, 2004
Brasil-Inspired has been launched today. In the first issue we have an interview with painter Beatriz Milhazes and illustrator Joao Ruas.
August 16th, 2004
A new interview has been published at Crown Dozen. Thanks to Shane Bryant for this opportunity.
July 23rd, 2004
The new Brasil-Inspired is about to be launched. The official date is September 7th which
is the Brazilian Independence Day. Lard & Joy, which is also currently being built will be launched within the next few weeks. So please check back for more updates on these two projects.
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