Engrenagem Editorial is the corporate identity of Marcio Caparica, graphic designer specialized in magazines and websites. Check my resumé and contact me.

Resumé – Marcio Caparica

  • Professional history

    • Runner’s World Brasil: art editor, September/2008 – present.
    • Men’s Health Brasil: designer, September/2006 – September/2008.
    • The Guardian Newspapers (London): designer, March/2005 – July/2006.
    • Jungle Drums Magazine (London): art director, February/2005 – July/2006.
    • Recreio Magazine: designer, June/2003 – January/2004.
    • ESPN Brasil: webdesigner, September/2002 – December/2002.
    • Universidade de São Paulo: publishing monitor, September/2001 – September/2002.
    • Editora Trip: webdesign assistant, May/2000 – June/2001.

  • Education

    • MA Graphic Design: University of the Arts London, January – December/2005.
    • Publishing (Communication bachelor): School of Communication and Arts (University of São Paulo), February/1999 – December/2002.
    • High School: Colégio Anglo Campinas, August-December/1996.
    • Exchange program: Mazama High School (Oregon, USA), August/1995 – July/1996.
    • Data Processing (incomplete): Technical School of Campinas, February/1994 – July/1995.

  • Qualifications

    • Experience with editorial coordination and managing editorial teams.
    • Complete proficiency with the whole Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash).
    • High HTML, CSS and PHP skills, capable of creating dynamic pages following the W3 standards. High ActionScript skills for creation of interactive content with Flash.
    • Fluent English and Portuguese, intermediate Spanish and French.
    • Finalist for Best Gastronomy Story at Abril’s XXXIII Journalism Award; Finalist for Best Beauty Story at Abril’s XXXIII Journalism Award; Finalist for Best Fashion Story at Abril’s XXXIII Journalism Award; Finalist for Best Opening Spread Design at Abril’s XXXII Journalism Award .

  • Assets

    • Highly creative, able to quickly grasp the concepts required to do a job and translate them into visual designs in an innovative manner. Can easily comprehend the editorial line of a publication and adopt it during jobs.
    • Great computer skills. Proficiency on both PC and Mac platforms.
    • Very commited and responsible
    • Meticulous, with a good eye for detail
    • Used to dealing with people and deadlines, comissioning artwork, coping with pressure and working in a team.

  • Main accomplishments

    • Men’s Health Brasil

      • Increased the number of stock agencies with which the magazine worked, rekindling contacts with agencies that already had deals with the publishing companies, starting new deals with others less frequently used, and implementing the usage of low-cost stock agencies.
      • Dealt with photographers overseas whenever necessary.
      • Managed and expanded the list of model agencies that worked with the magazine, often calling out castings and dealing directly with bookers.
      • Dealt with the whole communication of the Brazilian edition with other editions around the world, specially UK, US and Italy.
      • Managed photo shoots from the very early concept stages all the way to the end, comissioning photographers, make-up artists and stylists and controlling schedules and costs.
      • Improved the magazine’s editorial process, with the implementation of templates and best practices.

    • The Guardian Newspapers

      • Created designs for section covers of weekly sections like Film & Music, Travel and G2.
      • Checked page spreads and section covers for mistakes, and sent them to press.
      • Designed page spreads of stories that required a lay-out with a high level of complexity.
      • Illustrated covers for the Money and G2 sections, and illustrated the stamp for the 2005 The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize..

    • Jungle Drums Magazine

      • Created a new graphic project for Jungle Drums magazine.
      • Established a professional way to design the magazine, until then very amateurish, implementing templates, color palettes, typography standards etc.
      • Brought new photographers and illustrators to the magazine. Comissioned all of its artwork.
      • Trained new graphic designers to help with the magazine’s work load.
      • Did all of the prepress work and Photoshop treatment of the publication’s images.

    • Recreio magazine

      • Designed page spreads in a fun, creative and innovative manner, respecting the title’s graphic project.
      • Polished the page spreads on Photoshop.

    • Website revistatrip.com.br

      • Updated content daily, putting up on the website games results, news and surveys.
      • Redesigned several sections, like Photogallery, Team, Weblinks etc.
      • Created hotsites for championships and other sport events. .

  • Additional Information

    • MA overseas

      • Doing a Graphic Design MA at the University of the Arts London allowed me to explore new manners of practicing graphic design, put me in contact with designers from all around the world and made it possible to discuss the graphic design practice under the academic and ethical points of view.

    • International work experience

      • Working for a company like The Guardian was a fantastic opportunity of understanding the daily routine of newspapers, put me in touch with the British way of life and expanded my whole view of the communication business.

    • Blog

      • I create and update a blog since before the “blog” was created, when you had to learn HTML to do so.

    • Travel

      • I completed the Way of St. James in 2004 and cycled over 1500 km through Europe in 2006. These activities increased my cultural baggage, refueled my inspiration sources and hardened my ability to carry projects all the way to the end.