About
Celso Singo Aramaki studied Social Communications at FAAP College in Brazil and arts at Hunter College.
Since 1985, he has been working as an visual artist and entrepreneur and has focused on visual communications projects in São Paulo, Brazil; New York, USA; and Tokyo, Japan.
He worked as an illustrator and journalist with Folha de São Paulo in Brazil from 1985-1991. Started with a weekly comic strip for ‘Folhinha’ and in 1987 with the daily comic strip ‘Rard’ for ‘Ilustrada’.
In 1990 he moved to New York and developed illustrations and art direction projects with his first company Visual Factory Co. in Manhattan, for Kodansha International and other communications companies in New York and Los Angeles.
In his first stay in Tokyo, Japan, from 1992 to 1998, he developed interactive multimedia projects, information architecture for intranet sites and corporate presentations with Dentsu, in Tokyo.
The NHK/NEC ‘Seimei’ interactive media title series of 1996-1998 in which he was one of the digital contents Executive Producer won a prize at Cannes Interactive Festival in 1998.
From 1999 to 2004 he worked again for Folha de São Paulo in Brazil, while starting his graphic romance ‘Noograms’.
In 2005/2006, Celso’s interest of micro projects incubation and management over networks inspired him to form the base for the microbranding data visualization company Flux Streets Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, which he sold in January 2010 to an investment company.
In 2011 he is currently director at mStreets Co., Ltd in US and eMeme Produção AudioVisual Ltda-ME in Brazil.
While as a executive producer and entrepreneur he manages a varaiety of visual information jobs, his special interest is in projects for semantic web datasets visualization.
As an visual artist, his graphic romance “Noograms” is scheduled to be published in 2012 in New York.
Professional Summary
Visual Artist, interaction designer and information architecture designer. Developed interactivity design for cultural and artistic contents databases in Tokyo. Executive Producer and entrepreneur for a variety of business projects. Special interest in projects for Semantic Web datasets visualization. Worked for Folha de São Paulo in Brazil and Dentsu in Tokyo, Japan.
Specialization
Development of digital contents, brand placement for online and offline cultural projects, datasets interactive animations, datasets movie production.
Experience
Director
mStreets Co. Ltd
Internet industry
February 2010 – Present (1 year 7 months) New York, USA
Director and manager for the Data Visualization applications projects, datasets movies executive production.
Visual Artist and Director
eMeme Produção AudioVisual Ltda-ME
Internet industry
January 2010 – Present (1 year 8 months) São Paulo Area, Brazil
Development of Audio Visual Projects, with emphasys on data visualization, information architecture and datasets animation.
Director
FluxStreets Co., Ltd
Internet industry
January 2007 – January 2010 (3 years 1 month)
A startup/beta company developing a simple Data Visualization tool for transactions over small sets of MicroBranding Networks on the web.
Sold to an investment company in January 2010.
Ilustrator
Folha de São Paulo
Newspapers industry
October 1999 – March 2004 (4 years 6 months) São Paulo Area, Brazil
Ilustrator and Designer for “Folhinha”, kid’s section of Folha de São Paulo daily newspaper
Designer, Interaction Design, Information Architecture
IMedia K.K.
Marketing and Advertising industry
May 1992 – March 1998 (5 years 11 months) Tokyo, Japan
Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture and Digital Contents Managements + Production for offline and online Interactive Projects.
Designer, Illustrator, Art Director
Visual Factory Co., Ltd.
Privately Held; Publishing industry
January 1990 – January 1992 (2 years 1 month) New York, New York
Graphic design, illustrations and art direction
Illustrations and articles
Folha de São Paulo
Newspapers industry
January 1985 – December 1991 (7 years)
Weekly strip ‘Sol’ for ‘Folhinha’, the kid’s section of Folha de São Paulo. Daily comic strip ‘Rard’ for ‘Ilustrada’, the culture section of Folha de São Paulo newspaper. Interviews and articles from New York for the same section.
Revista Animal (Co-Criador), Editor Assistente
VHD Editora
Publishing industry
1987 – 1987 (less than a year) São Paulo Area, Brazil
Co-founder and co-creator of the comix magazine ‘Animal’ and assistant editor during its implamentation phase.
Hunter College
Arts
1990 – 1992
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado
Communications, Media Communications
1986 – 1988
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