Patrícia Furtado

Born in Lisbon the same year Star Wars came out, drawing has always been one of Patrícia’s favourite activities, having received enthousiastic praise from her primary school art teacher.

She studied Communication Design at FBAUL, and after a year working in Lisbon as a graphic designer at Ideia ilimitada - design studio, she escaped to London where she quickly found a job as a mac operator at Argun Stationers - photocopy shop. Soon after, she found the courage to jump into the freelancing world and specialised in website design.

Four years and a half later, she figured out she could work from any corner of the world, so she traded the London clouds for the Lisbon light, where she enjoys both the sunny days and international clients like Haagen-Dazs or Tropicana.

In 2009, she joined The Lisbon Studio, where the contact with so many talented illustrators inspired her to go back to her pens and pencils. Patrícia now wors most of the time between web design and editorial illustration. With the ocasional baking, of course.

Want to know more?

Try Patricia’s Illustrated (and therefore embarrassing) Autobiography, part 1. Part 2 will be written soon. Well, eventually.

You can also read “25 Random things about me”, a facebook meme I wrote while ago and decided to copy here.

No, not about Patrícia, about the website

Oh, right. Then check my colophon page, I threw all the techy info in there.