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Product design Pictograms cards Illustrations of distinguished people Collections of manuals illustrated Illustrations of musical performances
2012/1 SEMIANNUAL
Editorial Besides background in industrial and footwear design, my main expertise is on instructional illustrations, but I am also able to create expressive or artistic images (mixed media). My objective for the next years is to join my craft skills as illustrator (handrawn mainly) 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 (The University of Reading, UK). I have made presentations about the graphic representation of dynamic events in USA (Philadelphia and Atlanta) and UK (Wrexham, Cambridge, Greenwich and Reading), where my audience included technical communicators, information designers and illustrators.
JosĂŠ Marconi Bezerra de Souza Lecturer
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This edition Illustrations of distinguished people .............................................................. 4
Pictograms ................................................................................................. 6
Collections of manuals illustrate .............................................................. 7
Product design .......................................................................................... 8
Illustrations of musical performances .................................................... 10
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jose-de-souza.prosite.com
Contact
marconi2006@googlemail.com
Illustrations of distinguished pople Bezerra da Silva, Rio’s Sambandit Description Bezerra da Silva is a popular Brazilian musician famous by his sambas and lyrics about Rio de Janeiro’s shanty towns characters and their marginal life. According to AllMusic website, Bezerra da Silva has composed and performed sambas full of the Carioca malice (malandragem) 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 him.
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Homage to Amy Winehouse Description My homage to Amy Winehouse. This was based on Bryan Adam´s photo for Harper´s Bazaar Magazine. The illustration is based on Bryan Adams’ photo for Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. The technique is charcoal and gouache on tracing paper (A3 size). The illustration was photographed with Canon Power Shot digital camera.
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Pictograms Cards Pictorial cards for alternative communication Description 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 style.
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Collections of manuals illustrate Collection and “show and tell” about illustrated manuals Description This is a small sample of my collection of more than 300 illustrated manuals. The start point was my PhD research, which has a chapter on “graphic representations of motion for instructional purposes”. Besides working as a source of ideas, the collection became a topic of “show and tell” presentations at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication (The University of Reading, United Kingdom) and Department of Design (Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil).
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Product design Footwear design Description Drawings developed during my Industrial Master Degree and job as designer consultant in Brazil.
“Hero” is targeted to the safety footwear marketing, which at that time did not offer footwear that could be considered technologically advanced as performance footwear.
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These are design projects that I have developed during my MA (1992, Birmingham City University, UK) and for Brazilian north east companies (1992-1998). Initially, I was strongly influenced by technological and fashion trends related to sports shoes design (Nike, Reebok and Adidas products). The prototypes of the “Hero Collection” of safety footwear were sponsored by C&J Clark International the biggest British footwear company.
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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.
Constructive drawings used to guide the production of sandals prototypes.
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Illustrations of musical performances Urban and musical sketches Description Sketches developed during 2011 in Curitiba and S達o Paulo.
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Credits DIRECTION, COORDINATION AND ARTWORK: Leandro Siqueira da Hora Gonzaga leandro.s.hora@hotmail.com ART DIRECTION: Marco Nunes Aguiar marconunes25@gemail.com José Marconi Bezerra de Souza marconi2006@googlemail.com REDACTION: José Marconi Bezerra de Souza marconi2006@googlemail.com REVISION: Júlio César juliocesar21@gmail.com COVER ILLUSTRATION: José Marconi Bezerra de Souza marconi2006@googlemail.com
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