Rio de Janeiro

On Saturday in the morning we took the bus from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. In total it took 6 hours to get there and during the whole trip were just looking out of the window, amazed by the time it took to finally leave São Paulo, the change of landscape, the smaller towns and villages...
When we arrived at the busterminal Daniel and João where already awaiting us and took us on our first ride through the city. It took only a few minutes to catch a first glimpse of one of the beaches and the sea. Rio is very different to São Paulo and the presence of nature within the city gives it a really special image. All the tropical plants growing in the street, orchids hanging from trees, mountains in the middle of the city and of course the beaches!
We are very happy João offered us stay at his place while we are here and we are looking forward to working with him and Daniel in the next couple of days. Both of them decided to stay in Rio and work here, even though most of the graphic design scene is based in São Paulo - we can perfectly understand, why it is worth staying here!
We really recomend to take a look at their webpages:
www.giosimi.com
www.dimaquina.com

more colors from the streets of São Paulo

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Drömma

For all the dreamers out there - please visit Dimitre's website: http://dromma.org/ and submit your dreams. He developed this page to collect dreams from friends and friends of friends. You can describe the dreams and also draw your visions in a small box. Dimitre's page is creating very interesting statistics through collecting all the words that appear very often in our dreams. So, for example the most used subject is "house"...

o pastoreio

Everson is working on a very beautiful story he wrote with a friend of him. To illustrate the complex tale, he is building all the characters himself. The mixture of different materials and the relation to old drawings and tribe myths are giving the characters an unique and very impressive look, after all because they are so detailed and well elaborated . Yesterday we helped him to create some of the gods made out of paper.
To see more of the figures Everson already made, please visit his flickr page

Un dia en Sao Paulo

Everson, Tati, Dimitre and Augustina thank you so much for the great day!

colorful Saõ Paulo

Unfortunately the battery of our camera was empty so we could not continue to take pictures of all the streetart we saw - we will upload more soon!

twocollect highlights

20 million people

On Tuesday evening we arrived at Saõ Paulo. We are very happy that Everson invited us to stay at his place for the first week - otherwise we would have felt completely lost. Especially when we went up to a very high building the next day we realized how big it is - a city wherever you look, until the horizont, 360°.
But as we mentioned, we found a very nice spot in the very center of Saõ Paulo and already met some very good designers. Please take a look at the following websites:

Everson: http://dslab.art.br/
and also his flickr page where you can find pictures of the characters he designed to make a
stop-motion video. They are really beautiful: go to flickr page
We also met some very good friends of him:
Dimitre http://dmtr.org/
and Carlo http://carlogiovani.com/ and his flickr page