Cary Da Costa

Graphic Design + Art Direction
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27.010.11 - WON A PITCH!

This month we won a pitch to make 5 short film clips for the Vrijwilligersacademie in Amsterdam! We will be making stop-motion clips with paper and film director/producer Jaap Hermans. As an added bonus, we will also be making the original music!

 

10.09.10 - NEW WORK ONLINE

New & exciting projects soon to be online with some lovely integrated CMS backhouse work, RET (Refugee Education Trust) Geneva, Roel van Tour photography, Mickael Houdebert & de Stroom der Verademing. Vive le dynamique script!

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Poster
Eindexamen
Songwriting
Franc Timmerman
Rotterdam
2011
NL

Poster - Cutout typography and illustration for Franc's final exam at Codart in Rotterdam for songwriting.

Click on the thumbnails !

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Identité visuelle

Atelier 32
Propositions,
Fribourg 

Switzerland

Identité Visuelle - Le but de ce projet c'est
de créer une identité typographique ou autrement dit, de créer un 'wordmark' qui communique l’ensemble des activités
en communication graphique et publicité
chez l’Atelier 32.

 

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Campaign
Flyer
St. Job 
Loft
Appartments


Bam Vastgoed,
Colloquium BV

Campaign - As a part of a student competition, 
this informational flyer was distributed in schools throughout the Netherlands accompanied by the 

campaign poster.

 

 

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Campaign
Poster
St. Job
Loft Appartments,
Bam Vastgoed
Colloquium BV

Campaign - As a part of a student competition this poster was distrubuted in schools throughout Holland as an open invitation to re-develop the 
ST JOB warehouse building in the Llyod Kwartier, Rotterdam.

 

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Visual Identity &
Art Direction

Vrijwilligersacademie
Amsterdam

Visual Identity & Art Direction -

A complete visual identity solution for Vrijwilligersacademie Amsterdam, 2010

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Poster
Postgrad Exhibition
Haute école d'art
et
 de design
Genève,
(HEAD)

Poster - This poster was designed as part of the end of year postgrad fine art exhibition in Geneva.The complete exhibit which was originally held in the school moved to a

large student 
house.

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Poster

¨Interventions

Artistiques dans
le Village de

Chêne Bougeries¨
HEAD, Genève

Poster - This poster was designed for a 5 month long exhibition of artist interventions in the public space of Chêne Bougeries, Geneva.

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Visual Identity &
Art Direction
Nieuwe Poppodium

Haarlemmermeer

Fabrique, NL

Visual Identity & Art Direction - Pitch proposal for a new Poppodium in Haarlemmermeer. Fabrique Amsterdam

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Sales Brochure

St. Job

Bam Vastgoed,

Colloquium BV

A large format sales brochure was designed to promote the St. Job Loft Appartments real estate project in Rotterdam. The brochure includes a vinyl record and cd gift as well as a blueprint reference booklet.

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Flyer

Art Face Party, 

D2 Association

Laps, FR

Flyer - As a part of D2 art festival, the Art Face Party flyer was distributed both in France and in Switzerland. It was designed to promote a fund raising event hosted at Shakers Bar in Geneva.

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Illustration
"Only A God
Can Save Us
Now".

Martin Heidegger


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Branding,
Advertising
Campaign &
Art Direction
Global Human
Resources
Firmenich,
Geneva

This campaign was designed as an image builder for the global human resources department of Firmenich Europe.
The focus was on yougn and culturaly diverse professionals infused with the fragence and flavourful energies of
Firmenich.

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Pattern Design

Zilverstad
Fabrique, NL

Pattern design - built from the ampersand set in Hoefler Text Italic, was used in a label design for Zilverstad. Fabrique, Amsterdam

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Branding
Visual Identity
Ad Campaign

ABCs for Change,
Geneva

Branding, Visual Identity & Art Direction - A complete visual identity & packaging for a simple but novel cookie campaign designed to raise funds with the United Nations non-profit organisations in Geneva.

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Poster

Buy Nothing Day,

Rotterdam

Poster - This poster was submitted and printed in ADBUSTERS magazine in Vancouver for BUY NOTHING DAY. It was designed in Rotterdam, NL.

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Tshirt Design

Limited edition country shirts!

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Identité Visuelle
Librairie du
Carefoure
Nyon, CH

Identité visuelle - This identity was designed for a small library in Nyon Switzerland. The idea was to communicate a 'cross roads' or meeting place within the context of a christian setting.

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Ad Campaign &
Art Direction
Open
Bam Vastgoed
Real Estate,
Colloquium BV

Ad Campaign & Art Direction - The 'Open' campaign was developed for the real estate company Bam Vastgoed's new corporate image.

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Visual Identity
Tarwewijk
Bam Vastgoed,
Colloquium BV

Visual Identity - for the community Tarwewijk located in south Rotterdam.The goal of this project was to help the integration process of a multi-cultural community with a familiar bag which was mailed to all of its residents.

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Brochure &
Poster
Arion Music
Ensemble,
Montréal, CAD
Upperkut

Brochure & Poster - This series was designed for the Arion classical musical group in Montréal.

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Poster

¨Infiltration

Artistique dans
l'Espace Collectif

de Reignier¨, FR

Association LAPS

Poster - D2 was held in Reignier, France — an event for art in public space. This flyer folds out into a 420 mm x 594 poster and was printed using 2 colours.


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Book Design
¨Look, See,
Think, Know¨,
Vancouver,
CAD

Book 2 : Look, See, Think, Know — is a design manifesto written and designed in Vancouver CAD. This book is a result of my experience living in Rotterdam Holland.

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Book Design
Design Idea,
Rotterdam

Book 1 : Design Idea — is a book on graphic design written and designed in Rotterdam.

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Visual Identity &
Art Direction
SOS, 'Save 
Our Species'
United Nations,
IUCN, Geneva

Visual Identity & Art Direction - This identity series proposal aims to illustrate the idea 'collaboration' & 'connectivity' in an effort to raise awareness for global species conservation with the IUCN in Geneva.

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Visual Identity

Christine Bernier
Montréal, CAD

Upperkut

Visual Identity - designed for Christine Bernier — an interior designer in Montréal. The brief was simple, she insisted on using as many colours as possible.

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Branding
Visual Identity
& Ad Campaign

Ekopod,
Geneva

EKOPOD - branding, identity, web design, product design, video trailer & animated signature.This is a complete identity design project developed for a new electric generator launched in Geneva.

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Sales Brochure

Markendaal

Bam Vastgoed,

Colloquium BV

Sales Brochure - This large format brochure was designed for the Markendaal real estate project in Breda.

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Ad Campaign
St Job
Loft Appartments
Bam Vastgoed,
Colloquium BV

Ad Campaign - Borrowing from the events of everyday life, this ad campaign was created for the St.Job Loft Appartments in Llyod Kwartier, Rotterdam. 'This is not a warehouse, this is my life.'

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Visual Identity
Gekken Werk,
Colloquium BV

Visual Identity - This mark was created for a desktop publishing service bureau in Rotterdam. Cutting, trimming, & pasting documents, etc...is their line of work, coined as 'crazywork' — 'Gekken Werk'.

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Corporate Brochure
MorgenStond
AM Amsteland,
Colloquium BV

Corporate Brochure - was designed as a pitch proposal for an architecture & real estate project entitled 'Morgen Stond'.

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Flyer
Invitation Cérémonie
de remise des
diplômes, Université
d'ingénieurs et
d'architectes,
Fribourg

Flyer - This invitation was designed for the diploma ceremony for architects and engineers in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Illustration
Book Cover
Series,
Vancouver

Illustration - With ink illustrations & light typography these book covers were designed as a part of a murder mystery series.

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Poster
Le Cabinet
¨Music for 

Mountains¨


Geneva

Music Poster - for my solo concert in Geneva with special guest Samuel Action 

on the assfire guitar.


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Sales Brochure
de Scheg
Bam Vastgoed,
Colloquium BV

Sales Brochure - This large format sales brochure was designed for the Scheg real estate project, Bam Vastgoed. This development project is located near the apple orchards of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Flyer
de Drie Rivieren
Bam Vastgoed,
Colloquium BV

Flyer  - This flyer is part of a promotional package to kick off the real estate campaign for de Drie Rivieren real estate project.

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Campaign &
Art Direction
Golden Years
Bam Vastgoed,
Colloquium BV

Campaign & Art Direction - This campaign was designed for the Bam Vastgoed Golden Years project. The campaign was designed to focus on the growning trend of Dutch senior citizens moving back into the city.

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Identity re-design,
Ad Campaign &
Art Direction

"Laat Vastgoed
Spreken"
Ballast Nedam,
Colloquium BV

This identity exercise revisits the Ballast & Nedam's existing logo. It attempts to create a new visual language using the explicit hexagone as a dominant form.

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Visual Identity
Self Promotion
Rotterdam

Visual Identity - This mark was designed as a self-promotional mark. The idea behind this identity stems from my own curiosities with the visual world. From simple questions there are often great ideas to be found.

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Typography
Course Outline
Proposal,
Willem de Kooning
Academie,
Rotterdam


Typography - 2nd year Typography course outline proposal for the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, NL.Typeface by Rudy Vanderlans, Emigre

 

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Web Design

Oxfam Novib
The RET
Kavel Vastgoed
National Bank
of Kuwait
Parenti Design
Stop TB Forum

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Clients
Agencies