Skills for Life is an investigation into how design can influence the learning experience of young adults. Where the main goal is to use the principles of design education as a new format of online learning, to inspire and improve the young adult’s life skills, encouraging them to participate actively in society.

How can we facilitate the development of a sustainable collective in which people come together to share skills for a common cause that could help Scotland to flourish?

‘Happiness’ as a topic for social innovation has highlighted how positive change and shifting perspective can provide increased benefit on various levels of society and with a contagious effect it can spread to help a country flourish towards a better future.

I explored the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Service with the objective to understand the experience of other visitors on the museum and analise how the museum works external and internally, to be able to improve the museum service.

Launched by Barclays, this project aims to create a new ‘contactless’ payment method within a corporate campus. The innovation plays a very important role in the experience of payment and the ‘contactless’ systems, which are becoming an alternative to a traditional tangible representation of value. Thus, the design of a system that could improve the payment experience within the payment Corporate campus and that changed the perspective and behavior within the corporative culture.

This project came out of the need to re-launch in the market the naturally carbonated water Lombadas from the Azores archipelago. The objective was to create a re-launching strategy for this water, involving a new concept behind the brand, which lead to the creation of a new identity. This new strategy takes the water to a young gourmet audience with the slogan “Feel the Nature”.

Several posters made outside of the academic context, mostly connected to the music. These posters were designed for several concerts and activities, like master classes and auditions, produced mainly by the Sociedade Musical de Santa Cecília.