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In January 2022 I founded a studio in Berlin called Grupppo - Image-Making & Storytelling together with two other partners, Valerio Nicoletti and Lucia Sgrafetto.
We have been developing, planning and executing transdisciplinary projects that essentially include filmmaking, graphic design, web design, moving images, research, performances, CGI, spatial design, 3D, art projects and writing.
The Ladenkino Berlin invited me to be one of the speakers of the discussion panel on racism in the art and film industry in Germany together with the artists Malonda, Fairooz Aniqa and Malele Ncube. We had the panel at the movie theater stage at Fusion Festival 2023.
I was selected and invited to the Future Diversity BIPoC 2023 by Art Director Club Germany.
"There is an underrepresentation of creatives from diverse backgrounds in the creative industry in Germany. That is an undisputed fact. As ADC, our goal is to help change this status quo. Because creativity needs different people, their experiences, their expertise, their emotions, their perspectives - creativity needs diversity.
Our goal is therefore, on the one hand, to motivate the industry to become more diverse. On the other hand, and this is the most important thing - to support the creative diversity talents themselves!"
I was invited to be one of the speakers of the Design & Visual Art Event OFFF DACH 2022.
The Biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) invited 80 designers/artists from around the world and I am so glad they put me on this list for this year's exhibitions. The event started on October 23th until November 4th at the Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center, Hatton Gallery and Visual Arts Building in Colorado, USA.
Thanks again Jason Frazier, John Gravdahl and Roberto Muntoreanu for this invitation.
FREE THE WORK is a non-profit organization committed to making equity actionable in media and to creating opportunities for a global workforce of underrepresented creators behind the lens in TV, film, and marketing.
It is an honor to be on this Creator Spotlight on the platform.
The Bolivia Poster Biennal BICeBé is the most important international event of design and visual arts in Bolivia and the Southern Cone. BICeBé today is referenced integrator of Latin America through responsible design practice.
Since its inception in 2009, it has established the highest standards of national and international design and has created a network, like no other event, with all design schools and universities in Bolivia and Latin America. Each year, reunites great masters and outstanding professionals of the national and international environments, and also recognizes new actors, projects and initiatives in all the areas of design and visual arts.
The poster I created together with the art director Valerio Nicoletti for the social project with refugee kids in Berlin was selected for the Biennal in 2021.
And in 2009 I won the main prize in the Biennial with a project about the migration in South America.
Print is an American design and culture Magazine and website that began as Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, in 1940.
As a printed publication, Print was a general-interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who looked at design in its social, political, and historical contexts, from newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics.
The project I was responsible to create the visual identity and concept "Where is Zuhause?" about and with refugee children in Berlin was featured on the platform.
New York International Screenplay Awards is an international screenplay competition for screenwriters who aspire to connect with the USA industry workers and explore the US markets.
The screenplay I wrote "Paradise at Night" was nominated at the Festival.
With the project Passage, the Kultur- und Kunstverein Kemberg e.V. (Kemberg Culture and Art Association) would like to facilitate temporary working residencies for artists from the fields of photography and film who approach the Dübener Heide in their work on site – a region that is characterised by extensive changes.
We created posters that were exhibited on the streets of of Arles in France during the Rencontres de Photograpie 2021.
The project is supported by the LEADER program in the Dübener Heide and receives funding from the European Social Fund 2020-2021 and 2022-2023
The project Where is Zuhause? was materialised in a series of workshops held with kids from different backgrounds but now all living in Berlin with their families.
We let the children manifest their emotions, exploring visual paths ranging from figurative representation to more abstract drawings. Subsequently, we tried to connect each one of these visual expressions with a feeling, by writing down notes, some in the form of small paragraphs, others as single words.
The visual content of this project is organized into four sections, representing our attempt to connect with the children’s experience: the departure from their countries (journey), the welcome in Germany (arrival), the integration into this new reality (adaption) and the next steps (future).
The project was funded by Berliner ProjektFonds Kulturelle Bildung.
Carlos Vin Lopes, Filmmaker & Graphic Designer /Art Director based in Berlin.
Carlos Vin finished a Master Degree in Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee – Germany.
He was a scholarship holder of the prestigious German institution DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
He is one of the founders of the studio Grupppo - Image-Making & Storytelling.
