Welcome
Hi there, this is the online presence of web and graphic designer David Trindade.
1 Paraibano on the sentence above means a native from Paraiba, where I come from in NE of Brazil. I've been living in England for nearly 8 years, I'm a journalist by degree, and a full time designer. Apart from the geeky side of design and computers (and gadgets), I also love scuba diving, photography, cinema, comics & animation, illustration, travelling (who doesn't love it?) and good quality music.
I'll be listing some of the stuff I like, stumbled upon, been listening and reading here, just to keep me on my toes. Hope you like checking this out.
Work
At the moment I work at Can Studios as a New Media Designer with a great bunch of people and enjoy my job. We're working at the moment with e-learnig materials for a major Government agency in the UK, as well as other projects to be released in the near future. More on this soon.
I used to work mostly with websites, designing, coding and building them by hand. Using good html and css standards, semantic mark-up and all that. Then after a period of working with Flash based animation - now I'm back at designing and creating interfaces for e-learning. Ilustration is a important part of my work as well as animation and icon design.
Other Stuff
Photography
Venice/Veneza 2009
Here are some of the photos I took whilst on holiday with Rachel in Venice, Italy. The place is beautiful as you'd imagine but to my surprise it didn't have the stench that (almost) everybody was telling us about. Great to enjoy a famous city with great weather, and being able to appreciate some italian food at the source.
Reading
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski
Collection of short stories from the old man Bukowski and his semi-autobiographical character Chinaski. Bukowski was... a legend, madman, recluse; and these stories take a lot from his own depraved life experiences. Some of the best one liners from him in a single volume so far.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
One of the biggest classics of modern American fiction, I finally read the book that most people in England read when a child. The book is superb and I'm an instant fan of Atticus Finch. There's a very serious main plot surrounded by issues of race and discrimination in pre-war America as well as healthy doses of humour from the main character.
Can't recommend it highly enough. Go read it.
Listening
- Already free - The Derek Trucks Band
- Invaders must die - The Prodigy
- Friendly fires - Friendly Fires
- Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned - The Prodigy
- Labcabincalifornia - The Pharcyde
- Vaudeville Villain - Viktor Vaughn
- Death Magnetic - Metallica
- A arte do barulho - Marcelo D2
- Songs of prey - The Scaramanga Six
- All_J_Dilla_Produced_Mix - (hip-hop mix by Deejaysee)
- In Silico - Pendulum
- State of Things - Reverend and the Makers
- Music Has The Right To Children - Boards of Canada
- Black on both sides - Mos Def
- Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
- Ana & Jorge - Ana Carolina e Seu Jorge
- Indiefeed Hip-Hop (Podcast) - with Dirt E. Dutch
- In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country - Boards of Canada
- The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
- Rest easy son, you've had a busy day (Chilled mix) - The Tactical Buffoons
Links
Trindade translate from portuguese as trinity:
The word Trinity comes from the Latin noun Trinitas, meaning the state or condition of being three, or a group of three persons or things. The first recorded application of this Latin word to Father, Son and Holy Spirit was by Tertullian in about 200. The Greek term with the same meaning, has given the English word triad. The Sanskrit word, Trimurti, has a similar meaning.