The image below represents the multicultural integration amongst the Americas. The hexagonal structure is symbol of cooperation and solidness, while all the hues of the colour spectrum used to colourize the Americas reinforce the concept of totality, related to all the Nations of this big continent. This artwork was used as the cover design of a broadside for the International Secretary of the Ministry of Culture - Brazil, during an international meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Hey, this is the main piece of art which was printed and bound in London during Autumn and Winter (2008/2009). It was made by me and the independent artist, photographer and friend Guy Paterson, who teaches Alternative Photographic Processes at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London.

“Huge and heavy” - that’s what you feel when you get in touch with this sketchbook that collects loads of experimental photographic images. The high contrast images on the top of both aluminium covers were screenprinted with a coating emulsion and then corroded by acid. This pair of images are the positive and negative (in very high contrast) from a digital picture of a common hot water bottle - which symbolically represents the cold of English winter. The black spine was made by a very good leather and a sheet of canvas in the inner side. The pages were bound to the spine with one piece of 7 meter long waxed thread. The main paper is a quite cheap one, called “bread and butter”, commonly used by artists during etching process due its very good resistance to water. Some pages were printed on heavy watercolour paper or light sensitive ones. I hope to post some photos of the pages on a later occasion, showing the techniques and details about the process.

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This is an example of image retouching I would like to share. This picture was taken using a small studio with natural light coming through a window during a sunny day in Brazil. The camera was a Nikon D100 (quite old but still very useful if you are not a professional photographer), mounted on a strong Manfrotto tripod. I shot it in Raw (Nef). See below the final image and click on it to see some steps from the original Raw file. Hope you enjoy.

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A friend and I decided to mix some creativity with the amazing snow in London, along 2 hours of hardworking. Our snowman was so cool that The London Paper decided to show it as one of the best of London. Visit the links below to see the photos:

The London Paper - image 1 and The London Paper - image 2

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These experimental photograms have been made with a simple scanner. The objects seen in the images are common magazines, but with the pages bent towards their own spines. The scanned images reveal a very interesting bi-dimensional aspect of a three-dimensional object - the magazine. The following images have been artificially coloured. Click on the images below to see enlarged details.

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These labels were made in partnership with DEP2,
a renowned Advertising Agency in Brasília, Brasil.

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This pocket-size sketchbook is made of “bread and butter” paper and black and white photographic emulsion, which is also called “liquid light”. After stroking each page with a flat brush and liquid light, and letting it to dry, the pages became light sensitive, ready to receive a photographic exposure or a contact print, or both, as seen in some of the pages.

All the 37 pictures from the filmstrip were printed randomly over the whole sketchbook. They were taken in a restricted area in Holborn, London, around the building of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. Also the time was restricted, which was around 45 minutes. For 37 photographs it means an average of 73 seconds for finding and shooting the subject of each picture. The film was manually processed (Fujifilm Neopan 400).

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This poster is the proposal for the 31st International Summer Course of Brasilia’s Music School, in Brazil. It talks about art, music, compositions, rhythms, colours, emotion, expression… Everything that participants really get in touch during the event.

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This poster is dedicated to the most important Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The coloured stripes use “Brazilian colours” as main palette. The halftone image is used to dissolve dark into high tones, transforming the coloured stripes into Villa-Lobos portrait, leaving the paper itself as pure light. The typography is based on Helvetica’s Ultra Light stencil version, which I designed for this poster. The name pops from the bottom to the top direction, through several semi-transparent steps, besides a very representative paragraph about his composition style and creative processes.

Sketchbook again.

Official posters for the 29th and 30th editions of the International Summer Course of Brasilia’s Music School, in Brazil.

The vector based images represent the new areas that were included in the scope of 29th’s edition, acoustic bass and brass orchestra. The two figures are important composers, specially awarded on this poster. The lower face is Christopher Gluck, an opera composer, and the higher face is Heitor Villa-Lobos, *the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music (*extracted from wikipedia.org). All the small rounded symbols are musical characters.

The 30th edition came to place a mark on the posters trajectory, breaking with all the visuals created since then. Concept: the 30th edition could only happen after all the other 29 repetitions of the course, during several sequential years. Its concept is based on the repetition of the festival’s name (Curso Internacional de Verão) through all the background area, sharing a coloured gradient that represents changing, passage. The big centralized number 30 brings a strobo composition made by very thin strokes, which represents rhythm, movement and repetition.

Photoimage: pre-press company and other specialized printings.

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This image is a simulation of a photogram generated from the hexagon pattern in three states (top to bottom): positive, negative and another version of the first positive. This geometric pattern was created from the repeated rotation of a simple hexagon. To create the spherical look, the rotation centers were placed into specific planar coordinates. After that, the image was reflected twice, in both vertical and horizontal axis.

Experimental stuff created in January 2008, during some free time at a great Creativity+Contemporary Art course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Procedência e Propriedade). Below: cigarette stuck on sketchbook / after burning / high contrast drawing.

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I have made some illustrations which were used in Urban Review t-shirts. Click on the image below to see them. I want to see photos of the t-shirts

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These four photograms were made inside a darkroom with some translucent objects and light sensitive paper. The combination of the objects is completely unexpected but their shapes have some similar formal aspects. The four compositions were intuitively made.

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Language Partners asked me to make the design for a flyer to be used in a couple of events to promote University of the Arts London in Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through October 2008.

The typographic image was created by the meeting of parallel lines that are a bit illegible when alone. But together they complete each other’s shapes and become perfectly legible.

Find bellow both illustration and flyer.

Was created to be an inspiration to produce fine quality t-shirts talking about the urban culture. Each t-shirt is designed to reach a fashionable and unique mood. The photographs were taken near Waterloo Station, London. Click on the images below to see the photos.

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Hi everybody,

as you can see, the old blog’s gone. New content will often be added to the new blog.
To understand what’s going on, visit the ABOUT content. Some old pictures can be found at the links below. Here we go.

Some Old Pictures
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Hope to see you again. Enjoy the new content!

Camillo Righini

Picture taken for my graduation project and 1st graphic design portfolio, in 2004. The background was made by a white waved card. The red light comes from the reflection of the dark red fabric used to cover the scene and isolate background surface from external lights. 13sec. exposure, FujiFilm iso400.

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