Luisa is a 24-year-old Brazilian freelance visual artist and creative director. For over a year, she worked as a freelance video designer for Luke Halls Studio in London, where she participated in the development of significant projects within the company, such as exhibitions for the London V&A Museum ("Inside the Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto exhibition", 2023, and "hallyu! the korean wave", 2023), the London Design Museum (Amy: Beyond the Stage, 2021), and projects led by theatre designer and artist, Es Devlin.
Having graduated with first-class honors in 2021 from Central Saint Martins, London, with a focus on graphic communication and time-based media, her practice as a creative director was developed around a range of multimedia projects involving live performance, video-making, theatre design, graphic design, branding, and illustration work.
Luisa was also the creative director responsible for projects including album design for Carlinhos Brown (2017), Pretinho da Serrinha (2018), and Pedro Mariano (2022); stage design for Pedro Mariano (2022); the visual identity for Globoplay’s series "O Repórter do Poder"; and a complete re-branding for the Brazilian Music Awards (2022/2023), including the re-design of its trophy, first shown at the ceremony at Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, in May 2023. She was responsible for leading the creative team, developing the broadcast and on-site visuals for the ceremony, with on-screen 2D animated nominee titles, transitions, lower thirds, and award animations, as well as the graphic material for press releases, red carpet, decoration miscellany, production material, and more.
Currently, Luisa Is the creative director and a co-founder of Studio Gema. A multidisciplinary creative studio she founded with partners Emilie Rey and Bella Garcia
General Skills
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Photoshop
Indesign
Illustrator
Language Skills
Portuguese • Native
English • Fluent
French • Beginner
WORK EXPERIENCE
Luke Halls Studio | Video Designer
Video Design for Live Performance
London | 2021 -2023
projects include:
1. Video design for the Amy Winehouse "Amy: Beyond the Stage" exhibition at the DesigN Museum in collaboration with Chiara Stephenson.
2. Video design for stage projections in the Sigrid 2022 "How to Let Go" tour.
3. Video design for London’s V&A museum exhibition "Hallyu: The Korean Wave", 2022.
4. VISUAL editor for London’s Marble Arch Frameless Gallery, 2022.
5. Animation Support for Es Devlin’s "Come Home Again", Cartier’s commissioned,
installation at the Tate Modern Garden, 2022.
6. Video Design for upcoming London’s V&A museum exhibition "CHANEL", September 2023.
7. Video formatting for Dua Lipa’s “FUTURE Nostalgia”tour for festivals.
Brazilian Music Awards | Visual Identity
Brasil | 2022/2023
Creative direction for THE ‘Brazilian Music Awards’
Re-Branding. new trophy and vignettes for the ceremony
DB Records | Pedro Mariano | Novo Capítulo
São Paulo | 2022
Creative direction for stage design and album cover design.
Globoplay | Creative Direction | "O Reporter do Poder"
Rio de Janeiro | 2022 | 2023
Creative direction and title sequence
for Globoplay series.
Africa | Publicity Agency
São Paulo | 2020
Re-Branding (briefing experience).
Pretinho da Serrinha | Som de Madureira
Rio de Janeiro | 2018
Album cover and booklet design.
Stage Design Internship | Gringo Cardia
Rio de Janeiro | 2018
theatre design ASSISTANT and illustrator
for the 29th Brazilian Music Awards.
Social Media Identity and Backstage assistance | 29th Brazilian Music Awards
Rio de Janeiro | 2018
Backstage assistance and development of graphic material for the event.
Carlinhos Brown | Semelhantes
Rio de Janeiro | 2017
Album cover and booklet design.
28th Brazilian Music Awards | Prod-Assistant
Rio de Janeiro | 2017
Backstage assistance.
EDUCATION
Central Saint Martins
BA (First Class Hons)
Graphic Communication Design.
London | 2018 | 2021
University of the Arts London
Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon
Foundation in Art & Design
London | 2018 | 2019
PUC-RJ University
BA Graphic Communication Design.
Rio de Janeiro | Spring Term 2017
EXTENDED EDUCATION
Central Saint Martins
100 Drawings Short Course
London | Summer 2019
Parsons School of Design
Design Studio Course
New York City | Summer 2015