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Designer of the Week: Gui Borchert
Gui Borchert is one of the most recognized designers of the world. With such a strong style and amazing use of typography, this Brazilian designer has one of the most amazing portfolio you ever seen, here is chance to find out more about him and check out his work.
Bio
Gui began his career as a graphic designer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where he got his BFA in Design from UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro Federal University. Early on he got to experience working on several different mediums from interactive, to print and motion graphics. With time, he realized his passion was exactly that. Exploring the freedom of media and creating design and ideas that can live anywhere- from print to digital, TV screens to mobile and traditional to the most unexpected places.
After a few years working in Brazil, he decided to pursue new experiences and moved to New York to work for R/GA in interactive advertising. After joining the agency in 2003, he quickly grew into one of the agency's leading creatives. After four years of working on the award-winning Nike account, most recently as an associate creative director, Gui joined Mother New York in July 2007 to pursuit new challenges in integrated advertising. As one of the senior creatives at the agency, he produced work for Mother's largest clients such as Dell and Johnson & Johnson.In October 2008 Gui moved to integrated agency Syrup New York, part of the LBi group, to lead global integrated account Puma Teamsport, with a strong focus on football (soccer) which has always been one of his dreams.
Gui's strengths include idea generation and conceptual work, as well as design direction and execution. His diverse style can be seen across the variety of work in his book. In 2006 Gui was featured in Print magazine as one the 20 most talented designers under 30.
In 2007 Gui was one of twelve artists commissioned by agency Gringo in Sao Paulo to customize a bottle of Absolut Vodka for the Absolut Brazil series. His work was featured on the website, as well in a show in Sao Paulo. The collection was also published in IDN magazine. In that same year Gui was also commissioned by Stefan Sagmeister to create a typographical illustration for his book, Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far. The illustration, in collaboration with Brazilian 3D artist Sandro Rosa, was published as a spread in the book and also used as the cover and back cover of French publication Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne.This year, Gui was approached by the Barack Obama campaign to create and donate a poster for the Artists for Obama series, currently featured on the campaign's website. Within a week, over 1500 posters were sold.
Throughout his career, Gui has done work for some of the world's most recognized brands, including a collaboration with R/GA CEO Bob Greenberg and Stefan Sagmeister on the logo pitch for the NYC2012 Olympic bid. He has worked on illustration projects with leading agencies like Salles D'Arcy and DM9DDB in Brazil. He also serves as a news editor on the well-respected Australian design site designiskinky.net. And in 2001, he founded eyepunch.com, one of the most recognized design resources in the Brazilian design community.
He has won more than two dozen awards including top honors at the industry's most prestigious competitions including Cannes Titanium Lion, Cannes Cyber Lion Grand Prix, D&AD Black Pencil, Best of Show in One Show Interactive and the Grand Clio. His work has been shown in exhibits and published in numerous magazines and books in Brazil, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Gui often speaks at events and works with students in workshops and lectures, as he strongly believes that sharing knowledge contributes to a stronger and more integrated creative community.
Gui is a futebol (soccer) aficionado and always claims the number 10 jersey when he plays. He likes to believe that his skills live up to the mystical nature of that number. He also has a small part as a voice in Grand Theft Auto IV. He thinks that's cool.
For more from Gui visit guiborchert.com
Nikelab Design by Nature interactive experience
LVHRD BIFOLD: CNFLCT poster
R/GA Digital Revolution poster
Sign Cafe cover illustration
Sign Cafe magazine spreads
Absolut Brasil bottle design
New York 2012 Olympic Bid logo proposals
R/GA Interactive Tags website concept
Illustration for "Artism - Art for Autism" book
Dell XPS gaming print ad
Nikelab VCIII interactive book
Popeyes "Love That Chicken" concept poster
Nike Considered poster
Nike Free poster
Letter for the "Spelling Change" project
Oceans awareness poster for Greenpeace Brasil
Dell Summer Rocks identity
Jimi Hendrix type textutrized illustrations
Poster for the "Artists for Obama" series












































30 Comments
I m speech less, some of the most innovating stuff i seen in months!
great to see so many impressive artist coming from brazil! :)
amazing designer Gui Borchert. Thanks
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wow.
Muito bom, lembro dele no EyePunch, o cara é féra! :D
ah ouais quand même XD
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i love the post
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Excelent :)
Great artist...
The poster of Obama and the Jimi texturizer is the best!
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Great post, there are some very cool pieces!
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Forgive Revenge. Love the opposites poster!
This work is mind blowing, full of impact, creative visualization. My favorite pieces are "sign cafe cover illustration" and the typography posters are so detailed and expressive.
So what's the basic process for creating an image composed of text, like the Hendrix one for example, is he using photoshop thing for the basics or is it all done by hand?
geil
Jimi art is just freaking good! Some tuts about this would greatly be appreciated.
Cheers.
It's a shame he couldn't have designed the London 2012 logo instead of the one the work experience kid they let loose in paint came up with! Nice work!
Amazing :D ty for share
Great pictures! Kudos!
-Andy from Megastarmedia.com
That's absolutely insane. Thank you for the inspiration and great post!
So inspiring. I am amazed and unworthy of your greatness.
I really love the NYC 1012 Olympic proposals (1st one especially)
the sign cafe spreads were very powerful visually
and the texturized illustrations of jimi and obama are very impressive and wonderful.
The Obama poster is just ridiculously detailed...
good job !
thanks for this one! such a great artist. . .
great artist great work .......
Will I ever reach this level? I gonna go thro' this again.
Wow. Awesome stuff in there. Go Brasil!
Great post! :D
Wow, some amazing stuff here. Especially like the text over faces ; )
absolutely brilliant job!!! I amezed...
Vc é o MAXIMO
Gui, voce é o cara!!!!!!
PARABENS!!!!
Tio Carlos
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