ABOUT ME

Camilla Serrão is a graphic designer, illustrator, visual artist and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She works with visual narratives and multimedia graphic explorations. She holds a Masters degree (MSc) in Design from PUC-Rio (2021). She has received a BFA in Graphic Design from PUC-Rio (2018). She researches connections between illustration and narrative structures, and the use of drawing as a contribution for the study of folkloric traditions.

Camilla also works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. Has work experience in Editorial Design, having worked for a year and half in Editora Caras. She was awarded in the 4th Latin American Design Awards, in 2020, and won first place among Brazilians in the international showing PARLA! 2017. She has also participated in exhibitions and design fairs with autoral projects.

SOCIAL MEDIA
AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS
  • Work selected for PUC-Rio's 15th Design Week
    2021 – PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Student winner in the Illustration category at the 4th Latin American Design Awards
    2020 – LADFest (Lima, Peru)
  • Work selected for the 6th Design Week
    2018 – Bhering Factory (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • 1st place, in the Brazilian Group, in PARLA! 2017
    2017 – PUC-Rio/Dhis (Brazil) e CONFIA/IPCA (Portugal)
  • Work selected for PUC-Rio's 10th Design Week
    2016 – PUC-Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
PUBLISHED WORK
  • Carnival fireflies: a study on the narratives and memoirs of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival masquerade characters
    2021 – Revista Rocalha
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  • A Folia dos Vagalumes: O Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro e sua poesia
    2021 – CONFIA 2021
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  • Rio de Janeiro Carnival masquerades: observations on the preservation and dissemination of their cultural legacy.
    2021 – 22nd Convention of the Media Ecology Association
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  • Communicational sustainability, intervention-research and popular culture.
    2021 – 22nd Convention of the Media Ecology Association
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  • O desenho como estímulo para um mapeamento colaborativo de mascarados do carnaval carioca.
    2020 – CONFIA 2020
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