Year
2023
Year
2023
Overview
Pinga is a design studio from Rio de Janeiro, born from the idea that local
transformations can generate global impacts. It comes with the premise of modifying
our surroundings, promoting actions focused on the community and using authorial
design and art as a tool for impact.
Pinga's entire brand strategy was conceived from the versatility and volatility,
present in a mutable brand and in the collaboration in the creative design
processes, also bringing with it elements from RIo, Brazil and bohemian lifestyle of
the tropical country.
Team
Carolina Aranha [designer], Lucas Tadeu [designer] and Nicolle Felix [designer]
As the project for the completion of the bachelor's degree in design, we had a year and a half long journey to create a much deeper design project.
The steps for this were three within the three semesters: Introduction and setting the base, development of the formal arguments for the existence of the project, and designing the strategy and branding for it.
In the first part, we established the foundation as designers not only concerned with the state of design but also with the state of the world we live in, aiming to promote meaningful change with the knowledge given to us, along with collective and community knowledge.
Then, we refined our views by researching authors within the three main fields that would be the focus of our project: design as authors – in the sense of catalysts of ideas and solutions –, activism and design within it, and the true impact of collaborative networks.
Moving forward, as we had the foundation and the arguments for it, the challenge was to create a creative studio seeking to provide a positive impact on the community on a local scale, thereby creating a global impact, also following the ideas of collaborative networks, activism, and design as authors.
In the research part, we divided ourselves to research the three pillars of the creative studio. In this sense, I did the research on how design can provide more assertive activism with its holistic approach and empathetic view on each subject it was included in.
For the strategy, the whole team had a hand in deciding which approach we were going for, even because we were (and still are) very close friends, and wanted, apart from everything, to put ourselves inside the communication strategy of the brand. This part required a lot of quantitative and qualitative research too, and everyone was involved.
Then, in the visual part, I had a role to illustrate the mascot of the brand, based on what had been discussed previously and the main visual approach of the studio. Together with the team, we made the UI/UX of the website, which I developed, and also I made some of the brand assets, and produced and edited the institutional video.
The project resulted in Pinga Estúdio Criativo:
We are a Rio de Janeiro-based design studio that believes in the power of
local transformation to generate global impact. Therefore, we seek to
modify our surroundings by promoting community-focused actions and using original
design and art as tools for positive impact.
We are dreamers and unconventional —
we want to challenge ourselves to attempt the absurd to achieve what no one
imagined.
We seek genuine exchange between ourselves, the people we design for, and our
clients:
through this closeness and partnership, we aim for a connection that leads us to
create
projects and solutions that reflect the reality for whom they are intended.
We believe in the potential of error and experimentation.
And we believe in the political and creative power of diversity.
Therefore, we are activists in pursuit of inclusion — in our studio and everywhere.
We are creative because we believe in creating the future we dream of for the world.
In our service menu, we offer a variety of drinks — from classics to originals.
We work on commissioned projects in the areas of 3D, illustration, packaging,
programming, sound & motion, editorial, graphic production, exhibitions,
installations,
visual identities, branding, events, user experience, and interface design. Speaking
of our original projects, we aim to change the cultural landscape in the city of Rio
de Janeiro, promote cultural encouragement and art consumption through events,
editorial
projects, branding, and service design. We seek to boost inclusion, access to
information,
and a fairer social landscape. By creating networks of positive impact and original
socio-cultural
projects, our goal is to promote, more and more each day, a structural
transformation in the
environment we live in.
This is Pinga Estúdio Criativo.
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