Portfolio Category: Packaging

Zardoz e Agulha by José Brandão
M2 desktop Calendar

Zardoz e Agulha, 2018 desktop calendar design for M2 Artes Gráficas with illustrations from a special designer in the Portuguese graphic design history, José Brandão*.
This drawings were made in 1975 and painted for this edition by the author in 2017.
It was a honor to be part of this project.

*José Brandão (New York, 1944) Degree in Graphic Design (London, 1970), as a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1982, he founded with his wife Salette Brandão, the B2, Atelier de Design where he still works in many projects for a considerable number of clients. Professor of Design in London, 1970–71, and between 1977 and 2011 in Lisbon at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Architecture. In 2017 he was awarded the degree of Professor Emeritus by the University of Lisbon. Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Fine Arts. Founding partner of the Portuguese Association of Designers. Member of the Board of the National Society of Fine Arts.

Printed at M2
You can buy it here

Visual Identity & Packaging
Casa do Joa

Casa do Joa Winery visual Identity system and wine packaging design.

Local family winery in Trás-os Montes, north of Portugal, located in a small village by the name of “Parada”.

Alto do Joa Wine label and packaging design.

 

Commissioned by Thinkwide for Casa Do Joa.

 

 

Dominant Rush EP Vinyl
Miss Lava

Illustration and Design for the Miss Lava “Dominant Rush” EP.

This EP has songs recorded in the session of the previous album “Sonic Debris”, there for continues to make sense the illustration narrative exploration expressed in the previous album.
Here the band is represented in a psychedelic jam between the 4 musicians, a ritual of delivery and sharing in the creation of the songs.

Poster with metallics and fluorescent spot colors, folded inside a plastic sleeve became the vinyl packaging.
The illustration on the B side of the vinyl is laser Etching.

Edited by Raging Planet

printed at M2

 

 

UNUM Vinyl
Rocha

Vynil artwork and packaging design for the album Unum by the artist Rocha aka Rui Rocha.

Two different color laser-cut paper covers.

With two serigraphs numbered and signed in the interior, printed in Mike Goes West.

 

Produced by Keith Olsen and Jeff Lorber.

Edited by Raging Planet

printed at M2

UNUM CD
Rocha

CD artwork and packaging design for the album Unum by the artist Rocha aka Rui Rocha.

 

Produced by Keith Olsen and Jeff Lorber.

Edited by Raging Planet

printed at M2

90 Years Special Edition
SuperBock/ Unicer

90 years commemorative packaging design edition for Super Bock.
The silkscreen label design was based on a 60’s paper Super Bock label.
The typography design was based on the existing one from the 60’s, the new type design captures errors print aesthetics and manual drawing from the original one.
The new typography was used to design the 90 years commemorative logo, to be used in Super Bock communication over the year.

Commissioned by “o escritório“ for Super Bock/ Unicer

Thanks you Pedro Nóbrega from Image Makers, for the permission to use Super Bock packshot imagens.

Royal Fado
Yolanda Soares

Packaging design Yolanda Soares CD, Royal Fado, inspired by Amália Rodrigues’ Operas.
One of the most ornate projects I’ve ever done, searching for a crossover between the romanticism of Fado and it’s the guitar, and a more lyrical aesthetic of the harp.

Photography by João Carlos
Royal fado Crest by Rui Zinhão
Produced at M2, Artes Gráficas

Roots Run Deep CD
Fast Eddie Nelson

CD adaptation from the vinyl edition, in Stiched Cardboard packaging.

Plus 2 cards with artwork from Paula Almeida Cunha, Ricardo Frutuoso
Publish by Vinil Experience & Raging Planet
Photography by Cláudio Ferreira

Design at MAGA

Roots Run Deep Vinyl
Fast Eddie Nelson

In the first meeting we agree in not to use computers on the album artwork. We want it to be raw, connect to earth and nature.
Cláudio shoot a photo of Nelson and Arrábida Mountain, I bring the photos in my vacations and during my family naps took walks searching for roots and debris from nature, some from Casa Branca in Alentejo, others from Tavira and Praia Verde in Algarve, where a did the collage inside a pizza card box. The back cover was made at Barreiro, destroying pages of newspapers, old books and pages. Again photographed by Cláudio, and send to production.

There is a Limited edition white vinyl, with a cyanotype by Claudio Ferreira, numbered and signed by Fast Eddie Nelson, Cláudio Ferreira and me.
Publish by Vinil Experience & Raging Planet
Photography by Cláudio Ferreira

Design at MAGA

2014 Calendar
M2 Artes Gráficas

M2-Graphic Arts Calendar.

Guest Artist- Fernando Martins

“Terra-Para-Flores” — Photo calendar about human absence, and hope.

All photos by Fernando Martins

Design at MAGA

 

Doomvirate vinyl
We Are The Damned

Pretending to catch the tension in us, I photograph my friends eyes with a Iphone camera and process them with “Noir” filter.
The most peaceful eyes turn out to be the ones with more tension after the filter.
The final result is a Photoshop® collage, assuming errors and glitch from random selections filled with content aware tool.
Publish by Raging Planet, Demons Run Amok & Black Embers Records

Design at MAGA

Doomvirate CD
We Are The Damned

Pretending to catch the tension in us, I photograph my friends eyes with a Iphone camera and process them with “Noir” filter.
The most peaceful eyes turn out to be the ones with more tension after the filter.
The final result is a Photoshop® collage, assuming errors and glitch from random selections filled with content aware tool.
Publish by Raging Planet, Demons Run Amok & Black Embers Records

Design at MAGA

Paladin Visual ID & Packaging
Mendes Gonçalves

Visual Identity Design, and Packaging Art direction & Design

Others:

Luís Alvoeiro, MAGA Designer

Pedro Vieira, Mendes Gonçalves In-house Designer

Graça Martins and Vasco Durão, Strategy & Copy

 

Design at MAGA

 

Red Supergiant CD
Miss Lava

Artwork & Design

Original band photos by Luís Mileu

Sun photo ®NASA/SDO/AIA

Print & finishing M2

Raging Planet Edition

 

Design at MAGA

Wine 9
Adega Mayor

Visual Identity & packaging design for Adega Mayor wine special edition.

Phosphorescent silkscreen ink label.

End of a wine trilogy, 7,8 and 9.

 

Design at Ivity Brand Corp

Pai Chão
Adega Mayor

Wine Special Edition.

Pai Chão is an homage by Comendador Rui Nabeiro to this land and this is his wine.

Others:

Naming by Mara Jesus at Ivity

Design for Ivity Brand Corp

Wine 8
Adega Mayor

Visual Identity & packaging design for Adega Mayor wine special edition.

Packaging/Equipment Design: Luís Patrocínio / Design Patrol.

 

Design at Ivity Brand Corp

Solista
Adega Mayor

Adega Mayor monocasts wines “Solista”, visual identity and labels.

Design at Ivity Brand Corp

 

 

ID & Packaging visual style
Adega Mayor

Visual Identity for Adega Mayor wine packaging.

New packaging ID visual codes and graphic elements.

Symbol design based on Adega Mayor Arquitecture by Siza Vieira.

Monogram design based on early Adega Mayor logotype by Rita Nabeiro.

Design at Ivity Brand Corp

Wine 7
Adega Mayor

Visual Identity & packaging design for Adega Mayor wine special edition.

Packaging/Equipment Design: Luís Patrocínio / Design Patrol.

 

Design at Ivity Brand Corp

Debut EP Vinyl
Miss Lava

Illustration and Design for the first Miss Lava EP.
A folded poster became the vinyl packaging.

 

 

O Natal é Quando Eu Quiser
MolaAtivism

Graphic Design, art Direction and typography for a Box with 13 poster/calendars.

Each poster contains a illustration and a typographic experience by a designer/illustrator, with words by Vasco Durão.

Jan-Suzy Albiero /// Feb-Jucapinga /// Mar-Rui Morais (Ming) /// Apr-Jorge Trindade /// May-António Neu /// Jun-Pedro Carmo /// Jul-Ricardo Matos /// Aug-Carlos Guerreiro /// Set-José Mendes /// Out-Nuno Guerreiro /// Nov- Teresa Nunes /// Dez-Diogo Potes /// 13 month- Joaquim Albergaria

Design at Mola Ativism

Packaging & Visual Identity
Pluma by Galp

Pluma lightweight butane gas cylinder merges an innovative combination of materials with both a high level of aesthetics and an ergonomic design.

Product/Industrial Design by Rui Sampaio Faria

Design at Brandia

 

 

Packaging & Visual Identity
avidaébela

Under the moto “A life Time Experience”, a vidaébela sells personal experience packs.

The logo reflects the brand range of experience, with a rich illustration language for packaging.

 

Design at Brandia