What a great honor! I’ve been invited to speak at what I consider the best design university in Portugal: ESAD Matosinhos.
The invitation came from Tiago, a person that I so much respect and admire, so I couldn’t ask for more.
It’s funny to look backwards and remember thinking “I wish I had studied in ESAD”. And now I’ll be there.
Hello Ideas
Yes, I’ll take my “Hello Ideas” talk. Although I’ve been presenting it for some time, I feel it fits perfectly in the university’s context. The event will be held in the university’s auditorium on March 20, so feel free to join me.
And One more thing…
Well, since I´ll be in Porto and I’m co-managing the portuguese Adobe User Group, why not make a meetup/event there? So that’s what’s going to happen. On march 19 we will gather to do this: http://wgid-esad.eventbrite.com
Who’s up for a francesinha?
If you don’t know what a francesinha is, please google it and thank me later. So if you want to chat a little bit, get in touch. I would love to 
When I first read what Tiago Pedras was saying on his New Adventures talk, I knew he had hit the bulls eye. He presented Responsive Teaching as a teaching method and by his words this is what it means:
The Web Design is dynamic by nature and explaining it to someone that is just starting can be a daunting task. But this doesn’t need to be slow and boring as any other old school class would be.
(…) there are a significant amount of things that affect out everyday lives as designers that could be improved in the long term if we try to reenforce the community with well taught and aware new designers.
But better than me, Tiago explains the concept in his website. Take a look please.
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Here they are Enjoy it!
PS: Thank you all…
Great news of what comes ahead. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be teaching webdesign at the Lisbon School of Design.
I’ve been invited to be the responsible of the design classes of the Web Design & Interactive course, witch made me very proud. Even my mom is proud!
Since I started my journey to change lives and education through creativity, I’ve been willing for an invitation like this one. I’ll have the responsibility, the opportunity and the time to change some things, or at least try to. Especially minds.
So there it is. I have a new goal in my life: to embrace education and help future web designers to better professionals.
PS: I’m still an independent freelancer.
It’s with great honor that I’ll be speaking at the 2012 WordCamp Lisboa edition.
I really don’t remember the first time I started to work with WordPress, but it has been some time. A long time, actually. It all started while still working at Active Media, a portuguese agency that still uses WordPress as they first weapon of choice in what CMS matters (am I right guys?).
For me, working with WordPress is all about freedom. As a designer and freelancer, that’s my priority. And that is what I’ll be talking. Creativity + WordPress + the freedom of thinking. Since the talk will be held in portuguese, here’s the raw sinopse:
WordPress e a Criatividade
Antes de perguntar “o que o WordPress pode fazer por mim?”, pergunte “será que o bife está bem passado?”.
À partida não existe uma relação entre as duas questões, mas como todos sabemos nem sempre 2+2 são 4. Neste caso o WordPress não seria uma dor de cabeça, pois nada tem a ver com bifes (presumivelmente). É esta a sintonia que Hugo Fernandes pretende mostrar. Fugindo às questões técnicas da plataforma, procurará estabelecer uma relação entre a criatividade e o modo como o WordPress funciona. Por vezes as respostas mais simples são as mais eficazes, e nesse campo o WordPress é rei.
Sempre numa perspectiva de designer, irá acima de tudo partilhar como o WordPress contribui para o processo criativo.
So there it is. WordPress and creativity. I hope you like it as much as I do.
See you there. Or here: WordCamp Registration
Original picture by Luís Rodrigues.
It is now official that I have a new working place, just in the center of Lisbon. Yes, I was doing fine working at the beach or at home, but I needed some more.
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I finally managed to visit ESAD Matosinhos. For the ones of you who don’t know what it is, I’ll put it in simple terms: ESAD is the best portuguese creative university. That’s it.
I always had it in high consideration, but after the experience of attending one of their events, the bar just got higher, which is awesome.
Today I was at ZON talking about creativity and presenting my “Hello Ideas” session. For you don’t know the company, ZON is the leader of Pay TV in Portugal and is the second biggest internet provider. So you can guess how it was a big deal.
“Hello Ideas” is turning into a great success, not only in the amount of invitations I’m having to present it, but mostly because of the audience reactions. After the school experience and some previous events, I’m more than motivated in my quest to spread the creative thinking between different sectors of our society, just because I believe that it is the key of a more happy life and success in our professions.
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Last week one of the best things in my life just happened to me. Yes, I’ve made it possible, but I was far away to imagine the impact my action took on some people. Including me.
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I’m so glad I came to this conference. It was almost a last time decision, but I can tell you now that I won’t loose one more.
The are 4 reasons for that.
