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Brazilian CG artist nominated to Autodesk’s “Master Awards”

Autodesk has named the recipients of their prestigious Masters awards for 2009, handing out 15 awards to 3ds Max, Softimage, and Maya experts, who were recognized as exceptional people doing exceptional things with—and for—3D CG through the work they produce, through mentoring, and for their contribution to advancing the Autodesk tools they use. Among the nominees, Luciano Neves [...]

Born in Brazil issue @ Wallpaper*

Wallpaper* magazine’s “Born in Brazil” issue features the Campana Brothers, graphic designer Felipe Taborda, jewelery designers Antonio Bernardo and Livia Canuto, fashion designers/stylists Lenny Niemeyer and Oskar Metsavaht and architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, among others.

Brazilian posters win 1st prize in Bolivia

Brazilian art director Carlos Vinicius Lopes won the main award at the 3rd International Biennial of the Poster in Bolivia. The exhibition was held at the Museo San Francisco in La Paz, during November 2009. The theme of this edition of the Biennial was “Migration”, and Lopes’ poster series “Sobreviver” (“Survive”) was elected by the Jury the recipient of the U$3,000 prize…

Os Gêmeos Create a World on a New York Wall

Roberta Smith writes for the New York Times: “With their first public artwork in Manhattan, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17/2009, the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase” [...]

DDB Brasil wins several awards from Communication Arts “2009 Advertising Annual”

Communication Arts Magazine announces the winners of its 2009 advertising competition. Now in its 50th year, the prestigious competition selected 155 projects, representing the work of 97 firms, for inclusion. DDB Brasil was awarded for several campaigns, including FedEx, in which Fedex Express service is presented in an advertising campaign in Brazil showing the personal side of its service [...]

Brazil featured on Advertising Age’s “The Best of Latin American Marketing in 2009″

Highlights From Ad Age International Partner Adlatina’s Annual Rankings: Sky Brasil, Hyundai Brasil, HSBC Brasil among the best campaigns of 2009. As part of its awards, Adlatina has also named outstanding marketing executives of the year.

Paste Magazine interviews Eduardo Recife

Brooke Hatfield, from Paste Magazine, interviews Eduardo Recife, who shares of some really interesting sources of inspiration, like one earliest artistic memories is of a robbery: One night after dark, he and a friend were midway through their first attempt at pixação, a Brazilian graffiti style, when thieves ambushed them. Recife, now 29, has become a prolific illustrator, collage artist, font designer and photographer with a bevy of high-profile clients like The New York Times, HBO[...]

Lobo featured on Creative Review’s “The Annual”

The April/2009 issue of CR features The Annual, showcasing the best work of 2008. CR goes through the process of how Lobo’s wonderful hand-crafted title sequence for Brazilian TV series “Capitu” — a Brazilian TV mini-series adaptation of 19th-century novelist Machado de Assis’ work, Dom Casmurro — was made:

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