patrícia furtado

After having the old and beloved template up for a couple of years, Nuno Markl asked me to redesign his blog in order to make it a bit more sober and minimalistic. It had been decided we’d lose the hand drawings and white background, and instead use a cleaner interface.

To avoid losing a graphic connection to the author, I’ve created a small Markl Universe where small icons that relate to past work and episodes orbit around the header. Hardcore fans will identify all pieces of the puzzle, most readers won’t recognise all. Over time, a few of the icons may even change, being recycled as new objects come into play.

Thanks to everyone at Blogs do Sapo for taking care of all the coding.

On-Spot Marketing asked me to create a Wordpress template for a very image and information rich website. Pimped with a few well chosen plug-ins, Wordpress is just perfect for this type of website. A treat to work on.
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Häagen-Dazs are celebrating the launch of a Summer special edition ice-cream with a Wimbledon Tennis Tournament tie-in in the heart of London City, complete with a giant screen to watch the matches, sexy model waiters, celebrity chef appearances, complimentary beauty treatments, and lots of yummy ice-cream.

With a wink to the glitz and glamour of the Sex and the City film coming out this summer, I finally had a chance to create some sexy illustrations for the temporary website that will be promoting this event. Even better, I was allowed to use great amounts of pink! Have to love this job!

The UK website for the most famous orange juice brand is finally out, after much work and rework, fussing and tweaking, in a spectacular joint effort from all the enotions’ team. And it is still very much work in progress, as new promotions and pages will keep popping in.

Temporary page for the upcoming site for Häagen-Dazs’ Wimbledon hook-up this Summer. A full site, featuring more of the Sex and the City inspired characters, is coming up, so please check back soon! is already online, please check it out here!

When I was invited to create templates for Sapo’s blog platform, I was really excited at the opportunity of finally creating something totally clear from client constraints. As it turned out, it’s a lot harder for me to work in such a free manner. Staring at the blank canvas, it felt a bit more like art than design, but once I got started, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of making completely different styles for the same layout.

The first six templates are finally available for the platform users to chose for their blogs. You can see them here:

Are you serious?, a darker theme to start.
Shinny Happy People, for bubbly teenagers.
The Gazette, to spread the news.
Missangas, for all the crafty people that want to share their creations.
Writing on the wall, for travelers and cat lovers.
Sketchbook, a spin-off of my own site, as requested by Jonasnuts.

These are just preview pages, all filled up with lipsum, the real thrill will be finding real blogs using these templates. If you find some, please leave me a comment with a url, I’d love to check out who my real clients are, after all.

On another note, if you are a Sapo Blogs user, you can also leave suggestions for future templates, I’m looking forward to the second round.