Posted by Otto Robba in Webdesign on 05. Jun, 2010 | No Comments
Presenting to you the home for the usenet software Smoothnews. Smoothnews is an app developed under Smoothsofts, aiming to provide users with a great platform with which to use usenet while remaining familiar to all mac users. I was tasked with building the website and the app icon. The website had to, essentially, perform well [...]
I was part of the team developing the new website for the Nepaids (Aids Education and Prevention Center). Tasked with finding a visual identity that fit, making it highly accessible and working with a huge library of assets, it was not easy reaching the goal but it has been met.
New design, this time it got printed!! What is there not to like?? It is a Carnivore Plant Gone Vegetarian!!
I wanted something to write on my wall, something that was clear and stated a personal truth.
Design made for shirt.woot. Original theme was ‘Blue’. From this I derived the classic picture of the singing whale, in this case, singing the blues. Figers crossed, I like this design and I’d love to see it printed by them.
While walking around the street I managed to snap a few interesting photos, be it for the subject itself or for the ‘eye-candy’ quality found in some of them.
I was inspired and looking forward to practicing with inkpens, so I got a photo for reference and started sketching. Mainly a material and technique study.
I will be straightforward: I love comic books. That said, I have had this story laying around for a while and it is bugging me to get out. In order to practice and see what style would work for it, I started trying. This is one of the results.
A group of sketches and studies I did on the subject of, well, hands 
. Used mostly mine for the poses, although some I drew from photographs that were provided in art classes last year. Yes, the title is a silly pun – forgive me!
A small group of sketches and studies I did based on photographic reference and the Drawing School book.
Creating a character involves a series of steps. You need to research and sketch a lot, from poses to small details. In here I show a bit of a couple of studies I did.
Design I made for a t-shirt contest at shirt.woot. Theme: ‘Birds’. Gotta love Snoopy and Dodos.
7 Designs I made for a t-shirt contest at shirt.woot. Theme: ‘Visual Pun’. They might be silly… correction, they are. Here is hoping they are funny.
A design I made for a t-shirt contest at shirt.woot. Theme is ‘National Park’.
I’m pretty sure the undead have a national park of sorts… Or not. But still!
A design I made for a t-shirt contest at shirt.woot. Theme is ‘Harvest’.
For centuries mankind has been fooled by aliens into thinking they steal our cattle for probing, science and other shenanigans. Lies.
They just want our milk-shake, it brings all the greys (and greens) to the cornfield.
Posted by Otto Robba in Poesia on 17. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
A rua se prolongava sem fim,
Um pedaço do monstro – um pedaço de mim.
A falta de luz muito lhe ajudava a ver
que sem luz, qualquer coisa poderia
ele
ser.
Os gritos abafavam os passos,
O monstro apagava os traços -
a doença no seu sorriso,
o choro tornando o chão molhado e então,
liso.
Escorrei na catástrofe e me deparei
com os corpos de quem
matei.
Posted by Otto Robba in Poesia on 17. Apr, 2010 | No Comments
Amaldiçoei as sombras que se projetavam
e consigo – chorei – pelos sonhos
que elas arrastavam.
Do ventre cinza nasceu
plastificado na revista
quem nunca pertenceu.
Posted by Otto Robba in Poesia on 25. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
Vivo a vida ao galope de cavalo,
sumido no segundo do embalo.
Sem padrão de movimento,
Sem padrão de momento.
Se o rei está em xeque
foi o movimento da rainha.
Se faz calor e abanam o leque
é culpa da estrela vizinha.
Rima de final de semana
feita a esmo, feita na cama,
feita de estômago vazio e coração cheio,
feita por amor e nunca por receio.
Então eu até me deixo quebrar a forma,
dar jeito ao que não se conforma,
Porque essas idéias vão todas sair
E preciso ver pra onde vão ir.
Posted by Otto Robba in Poesia on 17. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
A essa hora alguém está entrando num trem
E a onda que se foi é a onda que vem.
Ciclos de vapor que nunca vão voltar
Que não podemos mais fotografar.
Vejo dentro de você um tanto de mim
e vejo, nesse mundo longo sem fim
um tanto de você em todos,
nos traços nos rostos.
Posted by Otto Robba in Poesia on 10. Mar, 2010 | No Comments
O problema do amor é que,
tanto quanto mais forte se amar,
mais fácil é de se magoar.
Eu ajo como tivesse o mundo desvendado
mas a verdade é que muito eu não sei
e se não erro é porque já errei.
Tem horas que é difícil entender
Que quem foi não é quem vai ser,
Mas não somos nossos pais nem
eles os pais deles.
Se peco é por querer sempre estar do seu lado;
na doença e na amargura, no amor
que acho que cura.
Mas preciso que você me deixe entrar
Na sua vida, no seu lar,
Pois sendo alpinista irreverente
prefiro entrar pela porta da frente.