Bruno Fernandes

Design director at the in-house design department at the Aurora Group, a luxury real estate developer. The position included the art direction of marketing collaterals, websites, advertising and websites and social networking contents for the various developments of the group. The position also included all the brand and design work for the Aurora Racing Team — www.auroraracingteam.com —, that competes in the Spanish GT championship with 2 Ferrari F430. The racing team won 1st and 2nd position in 2010.

A client of the extinct Comuniqué calls me up informing me that they were starting an innovative project and invites me to be part of it. A team of 3 was set-up to develop/manage the brand and the design work for the five companies that were part of Enovagroup. Also developed work for the group's partners.

Bruno Fonseca initially offered me a senior designer position at Arta that evolved into the opportunity to creatively direct the team. Accepting the challenge gave me the opportunity to work with very talented people. Clients were mainly real estate developers, tourism promotion institutions and various luxury hotels.
It also gave me the opportunity to work in the identity of Convento das Bernardas, a real estate rebuilt project by the talented architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.

After Evan Jones moved to Indonesia to pursue new ventures and Insignia closing its doors, I decided to focus on freelance work and work my own. It was good times were creative freedom was top and were I've developed my client relationship and business skills. Clients included retail local businesses, bars, clubs mixed in with a lot of work for an Indonesian fast food company.

Evan Jones started a new project/company — Insignia — and invited me to be part of it. Real estate development, hotels and tourism promotion were the core business areas.

At Comuniqué I've acquired an in-depth knowledge of branding and print design. Comuniqué was one of the best design consultancies, at the time, in the south of Portugal. It was also a great experience working with Evan Jones — the creative director — who really pushed me in the right direction.
Clients list included Pestana Hotels, Amorim Group, Oninet, Clix, Abrantina, amongst others.

Ultra Imagem was were I initially started working in the design field. It was not very fulfilling creatively but it really gave me good bases in designing and developing signage, stands, exhibition design, outdoors and other various pieces. It gave me good understanding of available materials and how they can be used to achieve an effective brand promotion. I was also involved in project management, handling project from concept, to production, to application.
Clients were mainly regional city halls, government institutions and local small businesses.

For my final high school years I decided to pursue graphic design, having being heavily influenced by my first real passion, skateboarding. Magazines, decks, etc, I wanted to learn how to design them so I got into the "Design de Comunicação" were I've studied pagination, design theory and history and had a very practical approach to design, exploring photo composition, screen-printing, amongst others. I also had my initial introduction to the computer here, I was taught in the transition years.