I'm a digital designer with 9+ years of experience working on everything from branding, advertising campaigns, and pitch decks, to websites, apps, and digital experiences.

As we say in Brazil: sit down, because here comes a long story...

I started my relationship with web design when I was 13 years old, on my first computer using dial-up internet. I started drawing and coding (with the good old HTML + CSS) blog templates and, after that, drawing fashion clothes for my 16bit dolls — yes, this was a thing.

After some time, I joined Advertising school at Unisinos and discovered the colorful world of Art Direction. I started my first job as a marketing assistant at an Engineering Company, which made me understand the "client view" of design and advertising, I worked there for three years, helping to build their brand awareness, as well as planning and executing their internal and events and classes.

I started my path in advertising when I joined the W3haus team. With them, I had the opportunity to know all the steps and workflows of a big advertising agency with big clients. After two years of being part of the W3haus team, and one national award (main prize at Share Awards for the best Brazilian online campaign for a commercial holiday in 2016) I decided to try other agencies and studios and started my career as a freelance art director, mostly working remotely for clients both in Brasil and in the US.

This choice allowed me to travel, and move to different cities throughout the years, and to learn how to communicate and organize my days exclusively online. I learned the good and bad things about working with different timezones, and this helped me understand that communication is key in any project — big or small.

Through good communication, and understanding of my skills, I helped numerous companies to succeed with their brands.

 
 

SKILLS

— Branding

— Art Direction

— Digital and Print Graphic Design

— UX and UI

— Swags

— Marketing Assets (Printed & Digital)

— Social Assets

— Advertising

— Presentation Design

— Master Templates

— Infographics

— DataVis


SOFTWARES & TOOLS

— Figma

— Adobe XD

— Adobe Photoshop

— Adobe Illustrator

— Adobe InDesign

— Adobe Premiere

— Keynote

— Google Slides

— Powerpoint

— Word (Templates)

— MailChimp

— Squarespace

— Ceros

— Pitch.com


SELECTED CLIENTS


Hey there, you can contact me to talk about 🌈 full-time jobs,🦄 freelance projects, or maybe just to 👋 say hello

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