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.