Sunday, December 14, 2008

Deep End


The Monster of the Deep
Is disguised as a clown
If you fall asleep
He will make you drown

Samples


Here are some pages painted with coffee. Left rhyme - right illustration
Monster reflects on the pool, Deep end Monster and Slippery!

A guide to swim safety

Book format



'The Monsters of the pool' is going to be a hard cover book with 32 pages and square format.
Here are some variations and studies.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Monday, November 17, 2008

Hair Monster


monster painted with coffee

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Cover


A colourful and funny option?

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Book Cover


First sketch for the 'Monsters of the Pool' book cover
What do you think?

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Monsters for Kids aged 5





This Set of illustrations are going to feature next Everyday Swim Booklet.
These were developed for children aged 5 years old and its a good start for my book!


Thursday, August 28, 2008

ICOGRADA news






The International Council of Graphic Design Associations has published some news about my project SWIM'IN London.

Please find more here

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Rita Martelo Swimming

I wish everyone can feel what I feel when I'm swimming.
Light, free, strong, relaxed...Simply amazing!

Mapping London


There is an interesting way to see London...
Location of swimming pools across Boroughs.

ahh Laziness....

The big Beast


The monster who don't know how to swim!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Open Water


Apart from the swimming pool, I really enjoy swimming open water, specially in the ocean in Portugal!
Getting ready for the next Sesimbra Bay swim in October!
Hope to see you there!

Swim IN


Swim IN London is a series of maps covering the 33 boroughs of London. After visiting all the pools in London I collected sketches and information about each pool: how they look like, size, depth, number of lanes, diving boards and much more.
The result is a 3D visual representation of each pool and their geographic location.
Hope this information maps will be available to the public with the help of London Swimming.

Swimming

For those who don't know me, please consider the word swimming!
It started almost 3 years ago, when I moved to London, to study at Central Saint Martins.
My tutor advised me to choose something I really enjoy and love as subject for my final project since I would have work over it for 2 years. So I did. 
I decided to create a map of swimming pools in London, to know where I could swim. Not an ordinary map, but something related with water! A water map for a water sport!



Welcome

Welcome to you and to me!
Today, while reading a book, I decided to create this blog to share my ideas and stuff!
Hope you enjoy, and me too!