O curious toucan

Wicked problems: Empathy

One day i was drawing and then i’ve made a series of 4 different drawings but in the same “style” and then they looked like this :

After, i posted each of these drawings on my stories (on Instagram). Then, after 30 minutes I’ve received a message from a close friend of mine (Luisa) that has a t-shirt brand. On that message she was telling me how adorable my drawings looked like and how she wanted to do a collaboration with me! Yes a collaboration!

Then we simply made 15 limited ecobags that looks like this :

With these two different prints and inside each ecobag we’d give people + two stickers with the two other prints and seeds to plant (food seeds).

Yesterday, i’ve delivered my first three ecobags and today my friend just posted on her stories how nice they look live.

More pictures!!

I remembered the part one name of the course I was in (Diagnostic!) 

So.. to begin, I’ll show what we’ve done on the first 2 weeks. 

We had to pair up with a group of max 5 ppl I think, and we had to do an sculpture about something. 

We, bucca, izzy, Lydia, me and another girl decided to make a political statement mixing our countries (Italy, Brazil, The UK, China and also our families historical backgrounds and countries where our roots came from).

The idea was very simple but also so strong. 

There was three bodies made of cardboard hanging on the roof of our classroom upside down facing the floor and a “shadow”. Those three bodies would be us and our childhood and the shadow, our future. Within the bodies would also be attached balloons with strong frases inside and people could pop them to read these phrases. Finally, we wrote in many different languages phrases of politics, philosophical statements and news. 

(Below all the pictures)

Here in this post, I'll talk about the first part of the foundation year I finished at UAL. In the beginning, the building was divided into “Specialist mode” and “Experimental groups” (I cannot remember the second one’s name). Specialist mode were the ones with people that already subscribed to be in the specific classes of Communication (Graphic Design, Animation and Film Making, Illustration), Art (Painting, Drawing and Conceptual Practice, Sculpture and Photography/ Timed-based Media ) and Design (Design for theatre, Screen and Performance, Textile Craft and 3D, Product Spacial Design).

A lot of them are creations from previous drawings I found on pinterest.

And some of them I already have in the digital version (I’ll post it later).

(Well summarised) - Back in 2018, I’ve decided to discontinue my Graphic Design degree at ESPM that I started back in my country (Brazil), and I found an agency called EF which is a good idea for people that want to study abroad. So I moved to Oxford, and there I started a course called “Foundation” which is nonetheless a prep for BA (bachelorette) degree (University). The course was focused on academic studies + Art and design. In January it was time to apply and the chosen University/ Institution was UAL (University of the Arts London). When I got to the interviews all of them basically rejected me because my work was based fine arts and not graphic design, so they offered me a place on their foundation course and I accepted! 

Below, and attached to this text I'll upload some of my previous portfolio work. 

I bought a kit of 30 different colours and i started to draw and illustrate on paper again and that’s what the first one looks like: