About me
Born artist, licensed designer & experimentalist at heart. Conceived in the woods of Sintra on new years and born in 1981, Lisbon, Portugal.
Grew up with a DIY attitude in the countryside, followed Arts in High School and later graduated in Design by Lisbon’s Architecture University. In 2005 moved to London and collaborated in diverse cultural projects, designing material for other artists and also developing art for print, digital and live settings.
Skills
Life: Foraging wild plants and mushrooms; permaculture principles; yoga; swimming; children and old people care; kitchen assistant; real time translator; upcycled arts & crafts; crochet.
All round Designer: Creative Research; Project, prototype and model making; Digital, Print, Motion & Web Design; Art Direction and Tutorship; Artists Manager and Curator; Live VJ and Film maker... [Software: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects,
Premiere; Resolume [VJ]; Microsoft Office; PHP, CSS, Wordpress...]
Visual explorer & incessant collector of images either via photography, video or illustration, I keep a library composed of videos, photos and motion graphics.
Languages: Fluent in Portuguese and English. Also know a some Spanish, French and Italian.
References
Tamera, Run for the Hills, Teatro O Nariz, Millington Associates, TimeBank, Reignite Action for Development, Jack Liberties, ExperimentaDesign, Kalimodjo, Quarta Parede, José Castanheira...
Exhibitions
Tweet Me Up @ TATE Modern Short videos screening, London, UK
Open Day @ Lx Factory Upcycled art pals, Lisbon, Portugal
Leevil @ The Scala Live video art, London, UK
RATtack @ The Foundry Live video art, London, UK
REcreations @ Streets Portugal and United Kingdom
Contacts
dswayd@gmail.com / www.dsartworks.wordpress.com
Projects
- Narciso Organic Olive Oil Farm websiteNarciso is an organic farm cultivating and producing high quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil. This website is a flash animation, an illustrated landscape telling the tale of the harvesting of olives and the process which transforms them into olive oil. The illustrations were based on videos (harvesting) and photography (factory) from the farm in the mountains of Trás os Montes, Portugal. We drawn vectorial illustrations in Illustrator and applied linoleum painted paper textures. The animation was developed in Flash, doing use of ActionScript and implemented via Dreamweaver.
Skills
- Film
- Visual Arts
- Print Design
- Websites
- Multi-media Artist
- Digital Artist
- Flash
- Wordpress
- Interactive Design
- Motion Design
- Web Page Design
- After Effects
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
Education
Design
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