CURRICULUM VITAE Personal information Name Address Mobile E-mail Portfolio
Inês Filipa Guerreiro de Almeida Maria 577, Fir Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 317 8670 inesfgmaria@gmail.com http://cargocollective.com/ines_maria
Work experience May 2012 - to date
Jul. 2010
Nov. 2009 - Jun. 2010
. Graphic Design Intern at YoYoText - Marketing Collateral - posters, flyers, billhorder, menu and others (to be displayed at client business; restaurant, bar, salon, etc) - Graphic Design - Branding - corporate identity; development of YoYoText Brand Book; Brand Guidelines; - Tradeshow booth design: layout for posters and flyers - Layout design for Website; layout design for templates (marketing collateral) Skills: Illustrator, Photoshop, Graphic Design, Layout design. . Contest 3rd prize winner – Travessa da Ermida de Belém – 2010 - Wayfinding signal system, outdoors, flyers, posters and other creative. - Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign . Graphic / Visual Designer at IADE.sign - IADE.sign : agency owned by IADE, created by students and teachers. A real agency for the real market.The main purpose of IADE. Sign is to give students the opportunity to work with real clients in real projects. IADE. Sign is currently working with non-profit charity and other social companies: . Contest participation – Taschelino bags by KOZIOL – 2010 - Re-fashion handbag (manual skills project). Create a new fashion design (illustration, collage, cutting, etc) for the bag. The bags were displayed afterwards in an exhibition at a well-known shopping centre. . Mascot creation and graphic projects for SPEM – Sociedade Portuguesa de Esclerose Multipla (Portuguese Society of Multiple Sclerosis) - Creation of mascot (Adobe Illustrator) - Creation of vector templates for presentations, flyers and other collateral. Skills: Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. . Project Participation – “GALP BikeShare” - Experimenta Design – 2009 - Creation and use of several “ibiezarte” designs to “dress” the tamdem bike. - Concept: “bring your friends. Let’s cicle together”. Manual skills: creation of plushies in felt to assemble on the bike. . Contest participation - “Optimus IADE Creative Week” - June 2009 - 10 briefings, 10 teams, 48h to create a communication proposal. Creativity contest in the areas: Marketing, Photography and Design.
May 2009
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. Graphic / Visual Designer – Freelancer - Corporate Identity for the company “USF do Parque – Unidade de Saúde Familiar do Parque” - Health Unit of Parque : - Creation of logo and several vector templates for presentations, business cards,stationary applications, wayfinding and other creative. (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop).
CURRICULUM VITAE Work experience Jan / Feb 2008
. Graphic / Visual Designer – Freelancer - Corporate Identity for the company “This.Functional, Lda.” - Creation of logo, symbol, brand, stationary (business cards, letterhead, fax) (Coreldraw). Company website: http://www.thisfunctional.pt/
2006 - to date
. IBIEZARTE: Felt and textile crafts; - Initially a personal hobby, evolved into a part-time occupation during my studies. As part of this project I created a blog in order to divulge my work and share my ideas with others. All items are handmade. - Blog: http://ibiezarte.blogspot.com
Education and Training Oct. 2010 - 2011
. Master’s Degree in Design and Visual Culture – Option Visual Design (thesis) - ESD – Escola Superior de Design (Superior School of Design). IADE – Creative University - Thesis Project: Children’s drawing book (2 to 9 years). Exercise book with an entertainment component, focused on drawing. The main objective is to encourage drawing as a complement to school learning. Combining the child’s imagination with different types of visual stimuli (color, texture, shape, shade), the child learns whilst playing. - Competences: visual design, illustration (digital and manual illustrations); typography; colour theory, visual communication, graphic compositions. - GPA: 17 out of 20 (thesis project)
Oct. 2009 - Jul. 2010
. Master’s Degree in Design and Visual Culture – Option Visual Design (curricular) ESD – Escola Superior de Design (Superior School of Design) IADE – CreativeUniversity - Main fields: Typography, Wayfinding and signal systems, Pictograms, Art Direction and Post-Production, Visual Design (communication), Marketing and Product management, Visual Culture, Drawing. - GPA: 16 out of 20 (curricular+thesis)
Oct. 2005 - Jul. 2008
. Bachelor’s Degree in Design – Bologne System. ESD – Escola Superior de Design (Superior School of Design) IADE – Creative University - Main fields: Graphic Design, Visual Design, Visual Communication, Publicity, Advertising, Photography, Industrial Design and Decoration, Branding, Marketing and product placement (design perspective), Illustration, Drawing. - GPA: 15 out of 20
Sep. 2002 - Jul 2005
. High school – Arts Area – Escola Secundária de Benfica – Escola José Gomes Ferreira - GPA: 16 out of 20
Personal Skills and Competences Mother tongue Other language(s)
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Portuguese English Spanish
CURRICULUM VITAE Technical skills and competences
Visual design Graphic design Illustration Photo editing Drawing Painting Branding Concept Direction Art Direction Vector Art Visual Culture
Computer skills and competences
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator CorelDraw Adobe InDesign Macromedia Flash (basic) Word HTML (basic) CSS (basic)
Artistic skills and competences
Artisan crafts, illustration, painting, drawing
Other skills and competences
- TAI - Tuna Academica do IADE - 2009 - t date Academic musical group (traditional Portuguese Universities) - playing “cavaquinho” (ukulele) - Capoeira - 2000 - 2006 / 2009- to date - Volleyball - 2003 - 2005 - Scouts CNE (255 Damaia) - 1992-2005 . Charity awareness: fund raising, awareness activities and event organization for charity institutions (”Abraço”, “Associação Sol”, “Banco Alimentar”, “Ajuda de Berço”, “Moinho da Juventude”, and others) - Judo - 1992 - 2001 (national competitions).
Areas of interest
Typography Advertising Illustration Artisan Crafts Vector Arts Photography Design Drawing Urban Art and Visual Culture
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