Felipe Massami Maruyama

My name is Felipe Massami Maruyama and I have been living off

design since I was 14 years old as this is when I entered a Graphic

Design technical course at ETE-Carlos Campos. This experience

was essential for me as it allowed for me to start wandering within

and exploring the vast field of design. Upon this experience, I did a

year-long Design course at UNESP-Bauru. This was a course which

allowed for me to experience what it meant to put an emphasis on

experimental and authorial work. I returned to São Paulo and joined

the design course of the College of Architecture and Urbanism -

FAU - in 2009. At FAU I was able to increase my repertoire and see

how design is an area that has great potential as well as the ability

to serve as a mediator between different areas and also promote

reflection on topics such as social equity, new models and syste-

ms, society and sustainability through the use of varied interfaces

whether using graphic , audiovisual, product and/or service design.

From the start, I got involved in several extracurricular projects with

other students who, like me, valued and, in some way, contributed

to the academic development through complementary activities

outside of the classroom.

Thanks to this, I ended up helping to organize some events such

as the 2nd FAU design show, which aimed to show people the

production resulting from the course up until that time (2010). Fur-

ther we put up a Barhaus, a round table bringing together various

designers so as to share and exchange on their experiences.

Throughout these years, I happily also managed to get awards in

various competitions promoted regionally, nationally and interna-

tionally. Among these contests: Valo do Aço, Minas Gerais theme:

Bossa Nova – 2008 Valo do Aço, Minas Gerais Theme Carmen

Miranda - 2009; Awarded with honours in the poster contest for

FAU Design Shows in 2010; Awarded first place in the poster con-

test commemorating 20 years of Integra Colleges Teresa of Avila

- 2010; Selected for the “SUSTAINABILITY: AND I WITH IT “ show

within the 3rd Biennial of Design in Curitiba through a competition;

Selected among the 300 best posters in the international compe-

tition Poster for Tomorrow; Two of my posters were selected, along

with 20 others, as being the highlights of