ABOUT ME

I'm Michel Ferreira, an Art Director/Multimedia Designer, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980. After almost 26 years in Rio de Janeiro, I've moved to Southern California, where I currently live with my beautiful wife and daughter. I've been working with internet and advertising since 1997 and have had the chance of working with a variety of clients, from ground-floor start-ups to multi-national corporations all over the globe - such as Coca-Cola, MTV, Terra Networks, NBA, amongst many, many others. I have a Bachelor degree in Marketing and Advertising and have also worked as a Design Teacher in Brazil. Now, I work full time as an Art Director at Album Creative Studios in the beautiful city of San Clemente, CA.

I am an advocate of web standards and I hand-code most of my designs. In the past couple of years, while working at Album, I have received two American Design Awards, one for Binnquist Development (BDI) a website built entirely with flash to showcase the wonderful portfolio of this, Newport Beach based, Construction and Interior Design Company, and one for the redesign of Album's website. Album's prior website was all built in flash, and after Album's rebranding in 2008, we decided it was time for an all new, fully web standards compliant website. After its launch, the website was showcased in several css and design galleries, on smashing magazine and got better rankings on Google. I am really pleased with this award because, not only it was a really fun project to work on, I really enjoy working for Album and its a pleasure to be recognized doing stuff you love.

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