Hello, my name is João.

I am a front-end developer & responsive web designer, passioned about belgian beer, libertine literature and the scandinavian culture.

“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.” — Pablo Picasso

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Using icons in web design

Using icons in web design

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While I was redesigning archify, I faced the opportunity to replace most of the images within the CSS sprites with proper widely supported characters, such as Copy Paste Character, Symbolset, Typicons, Bariol, or Read more »

Matteo Pugliese

Matteo Pugliese

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Matteo is an italian sculptor that illustrates man in a striking, gravity-defying manner. I’m always amazed by his ever plastic realism, particularly his massive commissioned sculptures and most of his Extra Moenia collections (picture above). If I won the lottery Read more »

Connecting

Connecting

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The first short film on UI, interaction, and experience design was just launched, and it’s free to watch, online. Connecting is all about relations: with machines, screens, devices, other people. It approaches a few old topics like silent ubiquity, progressive decay Read more »

Fuck, yeah!

Fuck, yeah!

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There is a place in Austria called Fucking. It has around 104 inhabitants and is only 4km east of the german border. Tourists have been caught having sex in front of road signs (gorgeous typeface, by the way) during summer, probably right after having a sip Read more »

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