Changethethought

Some nice type and motion from Dimitre Lima.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Brazil, Dimitre Lima, Graphic Design, Typography

A full load of wild, colorful, off the hinges work by Brazilian designer/illustrator/motionographer Sergio Rocha.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, LOBO, Motion Graphics, Sergio Rocha

Nice work in the portfolio of Brazilian born, American-bound (L.A. to be exact) Doug Alves.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Doug Alves, Graphic Design, Illustration, Los Angeles

I stumbled upon the Behance portfolio of Brazilian illustrator Christiano Siqueira today A.K.A. CrisVector, and was again taken in by some of his work. I have looked at his website before but honestly, I just do not have the patience anymore to sit through waiting for images to load in Flash. It just drives me nuts. I was able to take in more of his work at his Behance page and he really has created some amazing imagery using little more than vector art. I love vector art and have for close to 10 years now so it is hard for me not to be sucked in by accomplished vector artists.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Brazil, Christiano Siqueira, Cris Vector, Vector Art

The fine and extremely talented people behind Estudio Mopa have been kind enough to inform me that they have put up a new version of their website and updated their portfolio with new work. What is it about Brazilian design right now. They are on fire over there. Everything they produce is so vivid, wild, experimental, colorful and exciting.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Brazil, Estudio Mopa, Graphic Design

The ever-so-talented and still-so-young Brazilian Art Director/Designer, Silencio sent a note that he has updated his portfolio with some visually arresting new work.

written by Christopher | tags: Art Direction, Brasil, Brazil, Graphic Design, Silencio

Marcelo Daldoce apparently sometimes paints with wine but he also incorporates some really interesting letter style into his paintings and he doesn’t shy away from using the female form.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Brazil, Marcelo Daldoce, Painting

Thiago Ribeiro de Santana has some nice, albeit extremely colorful work for CD packaging.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, Semsono, Thiago Santana

“Bruno 9Li’s inspirations come from daily life experiences of the diverse population of its residents (European, Japanese and Latin American descent) as well as his search for life’s meaning through spirituality, alchemy and cultural symbolisms.

He often speaks of “all being one,” and is deeply aware of the unity of people, animals and nature itself. 9Li creates works of art that share this vision with his audience through epic encounters of natural and supernatural beings. These encounters, depending on the viewer, can be seen as mythic morality tales of the past, or a keen foretelling of the future.”

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Brazil, Bruno 9Li, Illustration

The website for the elusive Brazilian creative agency Big Man is in a way simple but in another way complex. I apologize if that doesn’t really make sense but after you visit, you will see what I mean. After clicking on several of the links, I am still having a little trouble figuring out exactly what it is that they do but the site itself is very interesting.

written by Christopher | tags: Big Man, Brasil, Brazil, Graphic Design, Web Design

Rubens LP updates with more of his signature style.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, Illustration, Rubens LP

Rodrigo Braga lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he splits his time as an Art Director, illustrator, DJ and web designer at an agency called Tribo Interactive.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, Illustration, Rodrigo Braga, Sao Paulo

I have to warn you that the blog will probably be very slow over the next two weeks. It pains me to say it but the traffic is higher than it ever has been since the site first launched as a full on blog. Right now there are close to 3,000 people a day stopping by and that just reached that particular threshold this week. So it saddens me to not be able to keep up the pace for two whole weeks but I will be traveling to Brazil for the next two weeks with my wife. She lives in a fairly remote part of northern Brazil called Teresina. You can see a picture of it above. I will have a spotty dial-up connection here and there but that will be about it for the next two weeks. I wish I could lie and say I will feel bad that I am not pumping out the latest news for you when I am on the beach for 4 days in Fortaleza but I won’t. I am going to give my self at least that long to collect myself and kind of get my focus back.

This year has been the hardest working year of my entire life. That is no exaggeration. This blog has really turned into a part time, if not sometimes full time job but it is something I have wanted to do for a very long time and it has been really exciting to see so many people coming here for inspiration. I don’t think a lot of people realize how hard it can be to run something like this and since about 95% of the posts come directly from me, it has been a tremendous amount of work. I believe in art and design though and I also believe in inspiring people and helping give artists, designers, photographers and anyone in between a place where they can show their work to an interested audience. That was something that really helped me forward my career in the past and I wanted to give that back.

So please bare with me for the next couple of weeks while I soak up a little long needed sun and finally spend some quality time with the woman who has supported me and all my crazy ideas for the last 10 years.

On the Changethethought news front, I have printed 10 of the posters from the print section in series of 100 per design. They are all A3 sized and printed on 100lb true white stock. The color reproduction really blew my mind. I was so excited when I got them back. They really look amazing. They are every bit as vivid and rich in person as they are on the website. I was really stunned. My printer really pulled out all the stops for me and did a great job. The posters include the ‘We Not Me, Buckminster Fuller and Pure Energy’ designs that a lot of people seem to like. They should be in the Changethethought Merchline store the week after next.

Lastly, I also printed 2,000 of the Obama Commemorative posters. Yep, 2,000. It cost me a damned fortune but I think it was worth it. I haven’t had time to photograph them properly yet but they are stunning. I took them out of the packaging and immediately sold 8 of them to my coworkers right there on the spot. If I can actually sell all of them, I would like to give somewhere around 10,000 dollars or so back to the Obama campaign. Maybe even more. I haven’t figured out the math yet. The posters are printed on 80lb Mohawk Felt White paper. There is a texture to the paper that really absorbed the color and they printed really rich and deep. I was really excited. The crazy thing is that when you stack them all they stand about waist high and weigh something like 300-400 pounds. I have no clue how the hell I am going to get them shipped to Merchline. I plan on signing and numbering every single one. Chances are I will never print another run but who knows. I will number them in succession as I print them though.

So when I get home, I gotta crack into those bad boys and start signing away. Then figure out how the hell you ship 400lbs worth of posters over 2,000 miles. Ah the things we do in the creative business. I really felt like there was a need for a more austere and serious Obama poster though. I wanted people to have something that kind of memorialized him and was symbolic of his place in history and his accomplishments. If your for him or not, he really is a special case and I think it’s important to create something that lets people remember this moment in history.

So thank you for reading and thank you for sending emails and thank you for supporting me. I promise you as soon as I am back in the states I will turn it back on again full throttle and keep pouring out every good tidbit of design that I can find to keep your gears turning. For all my bloggers on the site here, if you can keep it rolling for me over the next couple of weeks. Thank you to my fellow bloggers on the site as well. I really appreciate your effort sincerely.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Changethethought, Ctt News, Teresina, vacation

Wow, wildly imaginative work for motion and illustration by crazy color scheme loving Brazilian designer Vinicius Costa.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics, Vinicius Costa

There is some really fun stuff in the portfolio of Brazilian illustrator Matheus Lopes. He is based in the gorgeous city of Belo Horizonte. It is somewhere on my shortlist to visit on my trips to Brazil. I am going in two weeks but I will only be making it to Fortaleza this time around.

written by Christopher | tags: Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Illustration, Matheus Lopes, Mathiole

Platinum is a retouching and image manipulation studio based in Brazil that we have worked with in the past at Cactus. They did an amazing job and since have literally blown-up into a rock start studio capable producing mind-numbingly amazing imagery. They have updated their site since I last checked in and their is a lot of work their now. Their site is a little frustrating but if you have the patience you will be greeted by vivid waves of intense colors and stunning visuals. Their work is really really impressive.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Brazil, Image Manipulation, Platinum, Retouching

Nelson has just updated his spectacularly stunning body of work at Xtrabold. His work leans left towards the digital but I don’t care. I just love his work. Seriously. It’s just awesome. All of it.

written by Christopher | tags: Brazil, Graphic Design, Nelson Balaban, Typography, Xtrabold

Brazillian Motion Agency Molho does the kind of work that melts your brain. Recently they conceived a two minute free-from motion piece for Maxhaus. Maxhaus is a Brazillian brand that specializes in modular custom lofts.

Molho studio is based in Sao Paulo and led b creative director Marcelo Garcia. The studio aims to conceptualize and produce ideas across all mediums and in very possible format.

Have a gander at their work for Maxhaus and be patient because they will soon have a full and proper website where you can review the rest of their work.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Brazil, Graphic Design, Molho, Motion Graphics