About
Thank you for checking out my work. Let me introduce myself. I’m Rafael (a.k.a. Hafa), born in Brazil, 24 years old. After I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, I decided to move to Los Angeles to study and pursue my dream career in entertainment design. Earlier this year I completed a 2 year certificate program (Design Communication Arts) at UCLA.
My starting point was web design. As a kid I was always very curious about creating a website from scratch. After years of playing around with Photoshop and Microsoft Front Page, I was finally getting the results I wanted. I started by creating websites about bands, movies, personal blogs, and so on. I always saw it as something I would do for fun, until it finally came to me that this is what I want to do for a living. After all these years self-learning HTML, my background in Computer Science and some HTML/CSS/Javascript classes at UCLA, I started designing websites as a freelance web designer.
Today I feel very lucky to be freelancing for a few companies and getting so many different kinds of projects: packaging, websites, brochures, books, etc. Please have a look at some of them on the left and don’t forget to check my blog for additional work. If you have a project you want me to work on or is looking for a full time web/graphic designer, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
- Photography & Photo Retouching
- Advertising Design
- Entertainment Design
- Packaging Design
- Branding, Identity & Logo Design
- Publication Design
- Collateral Communication
- English (fluent)
- Portuguese (fluent)
- Spanish (basic)
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- WordPress
- Basic knowledge ofPHP, C/C++ and .NET
- Mac OS X
- Windows 7
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- iWork
- Microsoft Office
- Design Communication Arts
(Graduated in April 2012)
+ UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Bachelor of Computer Science
(Graduated in December 2009)
+ UNIVEM, Centro Universitario Euripedes Soares da Rocha,Marilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
