My Twitter has got a fresh new look! Do you like stripes?

I just haven’t found the time to update it… I’m working on a new version for the site but I can only work on that on weekends. Let’s see if I have something ready before the end of the month.

It all started with a great idea: design products with simple materials. To make a long story short, I started creating samples a couple of months ago and people loved them. I usually plan everything, but this time I decided to go with the flow. The company was founded with the goal of making beautiful utilities – mostly with paper.

Right after everything was confirmed we reserved a space at a gift fair. That gave me around 40 days to design all products, the sites, catalogs, business cards, banners, folders and so on. I really can’t believe how I did it, but in this period I designed over 50 products and set up the sites, e-mails and everything else! It was hectic, I got sick because of the work overload, I had to cancel other projects… But it was completely worth it!

Smuzi is now open! At the gift fair everybody was astounded by the products. The compliments gave us energy to continue our work and create more and more.

Visit smuzi.com for international info or smuzi.com.br if you are in Brazil.

By the way, these designs are temporary, I plan to do something more retro with the sites.

Remember the project I said I was working with? I’m working as an art director at Smuzi, a fresh new design brand that produces utilities and packaging.

I’ve been out last week working at a gift fair called Brazil Promotion. We released all the products and got in touch with many new clients.

I’m organizing the photos now and will upload them soon. I just need some time to relax.

Last year I invited Karl Zahn, a NY designer, to help me design a new yoyo for Vulto. We worked together for almost 8 months designing this yoyo called Vero.

This project was a lot of fun, but also one of the hardest projects I’ve ever directed. Vero is going to be released this month by Vulto.

I’ve been showing you a lot of sketches, photos and previews of new products. But when are they going to be released?

I can’t answer all questions now, and I will leave this task to a site I’m about to release. The site has all the information about this new project and details about all the products.

Hold on, the site will be online really soon!

I finished the base layout for Vulto’s new site today. For this project I had to create about 20 icons. I’m really tired of aqua, Mac OS and XP icons and their over hyped glossy styles.  All I wanted was something simple, colorful and effective, so I used the Adobe Creative Suite icon style as reference.

These are very minimal icons with good visualization. They are easy to customize. I’m sharing some icons with you, and I didn’t forget the original Photoshop file. Enjoy!

Download the PSD file here.

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