sophia poole  
/Multidisciplinary Designer
     
                                           

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sophia poole


Multidisciplinary Designer and Art Director based in London, UK.

First Class Honors Graduate in BA (Hons) Design for Art Direction at London College of Communication, UAL.


Born in Portland, Oregon, lived in Malaysia to the age of five then raised in São Paulo, Brazil for schooling. She is the daughter of Brazilian mother and British father, the double cultural upbringing has profoundly impacted her views, cultural interests and passions. All of which fuels her curiosity and determination to understand the world and create visual narratives to communicate and reach diverse audiences.


PROJECTS

Graphic Work

01 típico
Visual Identity for Spotify indie Brazilian playlist ‘típico’

  1. Motion Graphics and Typeface specifically created for logo and Motion Graphics from Brazilian architectural style of ‘caquinhos’.
  2. Playlist Artwork System & Outdoor design.


02 Book Cover Redesigns
Selfset ongoing brief to redesign covers of books I read in 2023:

  1. Rita Lee - Uma Autobiografia
  2. Tudo é Rio by Carla Madeira


03 noisewalk
Visual Identity for noisewalk (musical artist)
  1. Motion Graphic logo for noisewalk with soundwaves of their first single ‘pale light’ synched with type.
  2. pale light artwork cover and design
  3. promotion video and visualiser for spotify canvas (video editing and motion graphics)
  4. alternative logo motion graphics made with letraset exploring visual representation of ‘noise’
  5. noisewalk website


Publications
04 som som som

Thirty page screeprinted publication: collection of typographic concrete poetry inspired play with words, names and lyrics of Brazilian contemporary musicians. /Pelados, Bebé Salvego, Bruno Berle, Sophia Chablau e Uma Enorme Perda de Tempo & Ana Frango Elétrico.

Archived and available to look through at the Stuart Hall Library in London.


05 tangolo mangos
Risograph publication in colaboration with North Eastern Brazilian band Tangolo Mangos. The publication goes through their first two EPs and includes exclusive photographs, graphic novel with two stories written by the band and with illustrations by vocalist, Felipe Vaqueiro, hand written note on their first Album and more.

36 pages. Languages: English and Brazilian Portuguese.
A5 printed on Risograph /Cover printed using UV light printing
Archived and available to look through at the Stuart Hall Library in London.


05 dandelion iris
Poem-zine in collaboration with Sofia del Carmen. It captures the process of writing a poem, through distorted hand writing and scans printed on tracing paper, hand-binded with acetate printed covers.

    Analog Photography
    • 120mm
    • 35mm



    External

    Krokodile (band website), 2024.
    www.krokodile.band

    noisewalk (musical artist website), 2024.
    www.noisewalk.com

    Pale Light by noisewalk (spotify visualizer), 2024.
    www.vimeo.com

    Internship with Toby Mott, Cultural Traffic, 2024.

    Bookmark Designer for Sutton Literary Festival, 2024.

    Decodificando Identidades with Carlos Bocai and Julia B Aguiar, Aprender Design, 2024. (Certificate Aprender Design).

    On Your Own Cover, volume 11 - Barkino (woodcut artwork), 2023.
    www.barkino.bandcamp.com

    Top of the Kroks (playlist cover), 2023.
    www.spotify.com

    El Control visualiser for EP Dive into the Clear by Krokodile, 2023.

    First Class Honors Certificate in BA (Hons) Design for Art Direction at London College of Communication, UAL. 2020-2023.

    Plastic Purse by Chloe Moriondo, directed by bedroom projects and art directed by Sasha Hilton (assisted art director), September 2022.
    www.youtube.com

    Art Director for Happy to Help, short film directed by Sofia Fahrion, DOP Myles Docherty and Producer Lara Oke; MA students from MetFilm London. For this role I has to organize and source all the props that would be needed from script to set. June to August 2022.

    Certificate of Higher Education: Preparation for Design, Media and Screen at London College of Communication, 2019-20.

    Awarded International Baccaleaureate (including Visual Arts Higher Level) 2017-2019.


    Illustrator and InDesign course at E.B.A.C., São Paulo, Brazil, August to December 2018.

    Graphic Design Course at London College of Communication, July 2018.


             
                            
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