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  • Mario Gesteira
  • Url: http://umnaturaldeamsterdam.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: I have graduated in product design in Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. I've moved to Amsterdam to study New Media.

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Twisting perspective: Sagmeister

Mario Gesteira | 01 November 2011, 3:22 am | tags: , , ,

Sagmeister was born in1962, he is an Austrian designer. He studied at the University of Applied Art Vienna and the Pratt Institute in New York where he had a full scholarship. He always was passionate for designing covers for music records and has won some important prizes with his cover arts, this also attracted some famous musicians as clients such…

Interview: Marlus Araujo

Mario Gesteira | 29 October 2011, 12:57 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

In Brazil we can see overtime more and more designers starting to work with programming and merging those tools to create their projects. The figure of the designer/programmer has emerged and became fundamental in the web market and the quality of their work is improving as the time goes on.
Marlus Araujo is a Brazilian design…

Memes as a tool

Mario Gesteira | 23 October 2011, 6:08 pm | tags: ,

A very powerful tool would be to be able to release information inside social networks that would go viral and be incorporated to pop culture by becoming a meme. There are many factors that influence the destiny of a piece of information that is released in such an environment.

At first, it is very important to understand how information propagates…

App Review : Foodspotting

Mario Gesteira | 09 October 2011, 6:21 pm | tags: , , , ,

When you are in a unknown neighborhood and it is time to eat, it can be hard some times to find a good place to grab a bite. Thinking of that the developers of Foodspotting created an easy way for people to find and recommend the best dishes they could find around. It is a food centered…

Book Review: KINGPIN by Kevin Poulsen

Mario Gesteira | 21 September 2011, 12:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,
If you like police stories with persecution, infiltration and investigation KINGPIN may be just the right book for you. Written by Kevin Poulsen, it is an exciting story of the rise of  one hacker to the control of the biggest crime forum on the internet.

Kevin Poulsen is a former black hat hacker (a hacker that acts as a…

pre-CONDe’s campaign to organize the 21th Ndesign

Mario Gesteira | 11 September 2011, 5:00 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , , ,

Ndesign is the national congress for design students and professionals in Brazil, it is the largest congress in this area in the country and one of the largest in Latin America. It is organized by a commission made of volunteer students which is elected in the end of each edition of Ndesign based on the proposals that they present, this…