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Illustrated Manuals Project Illustrious Musical sketches Footwear design Pictorial Cards

Project illustrious

Project illustrious

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Pictorial cards

Bezerra da Silva, Rio’s sambandit

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Musical sketches

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Footwear design

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Illustrated Manuals

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According to AllMusic website, Bezerra da Silva has composed and performed sambas full of the Carioca malice of the hills, with which he chronicles the hardships of the shanty town dwellers (and the violence/ drugs scenario, even before gangsta rap). To know more about him visit AllMusic entry on.

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Pictorial cards

These illustrations were developed for the project “Communis” sponsored by SENAI (Brazilian organisation that deals with industrial training).

Communis is a graphic system formed by printed cards with images and text.

It is targeted to industrial managers who has to deal with employees that have speech difficulties (e.g. brain damages, intellectual deficiency, autism).

In graphic terms, there is an obvious influence from Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz work for the Isotype. However, later on these drawings had to be changed in order to fit to the in-house designer’s

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock homage

The Elvis´face was made using brush and indian ink.

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Musical sketches

Sketches developed in Curitiba and S達o Paulo during 2011.

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Detalhe da obra.

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Footwear design

Illustrated Manuals

These are design projects that I have developed during my MA and for Brazilian north east companies. Initially, I was strongly influenced by technodesign (Nike, Reebok and Adidas products). The prototypes of the “Hero Collection” of safet sponsored by C&J Clark International the biggest British footwear company.

Later on, I had the opportunity to work as designer for Brazilian small companies and artisans´s community. “Brazilian North east Sandals” collection was designed to be in tune with local needs and aesthetic expressions, tight budget and very limited technological resources.

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Jose Marconi Bezerra de Souza Besides background in industrial and footwear design, my main expertise is on instructional ilutrations, but I am also able to create expressive or artistic images. My objective for the next years is to join my craft skills as illustrator with my scientific knowledge on how to design effective graphic and cinematographic instructions.

Fifteen years experience as university lecturer including a short experience as teacher assistant at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. I have made presentations about the graphic representation of dynamic events in USA (Philadelphia and Atlanta) and UK (Wrexham, Greenwich and Reading), where my audience included technical communicators, information designers and illustrators.

A small sample of instructional volvelles about all ort of subjects: geography, sewing machine features, Portuguese grammar, maths, birth control and so on.

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Diagramação geral: Lara Endlich e Murilo Maifredi Fonte: jose-de-souza.prosite.com Arte: José Marconi Bezerra de Souza Direção: Heliana Pacheco

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