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Hi! Welcome to my online portfolio. My name is Andre Rodrigues, and I love design. Feel free to browse this site, by clicking on the right and left arrows to navigate through my work.

Nano

Ran out of budget for Godzilla, so we got a Tata Nano instead. An illustration done on the Nano Launch.

Yamaha

Thats my samurai sword there! An Advertorial done for Yamaha. Photos were done by the talented mustachio Parag, and the rest was me.

Gaming Illustration

A illustration done for a story on the best racing video games for Top Gear India Magazine

mumtazz.com

Worked on Identity as well as website layout of mumtazz.com a premier clubbing site based in Dubai and Singapore.

Top Gear India Magazine

Currently working as the Art Director of  Top Gear India, worked on a redesign and new format, and incharge of coming up with some cool shoots.

ZoomTV.in

Worked on a first version of this website for the popular TV channel. Featuring videos, news, gossip, and tonnes of celeb stuff.

T3 Magazine India

Worked for the first two Issues of T3 Magazine. Did a bunch of Illustrations for them, featuring the deliciously hot Deepika Padukone! Hot! Sigh! Hot!.  Also Migrated and localised the design to a more palpable format for Indian audiences. Click for more Illustrations.

Femina Online

They said I had no feminine side! They were WRONG! Femina.in is the website version of the leading womens magazine brand in India. Done in Flash, CSS with a PHP, MySql backend. Currently offline and transitioned into the second more complex level. Click here to see a prototype of the Femina Girl site.

Filmfare Awards Microsite

Filmfare is the bollywood equivalent of the Oscars, and this microsite was built as a teaser and a listing of the upcoming awards. Done in Flash and CSS.

Sholay

A prototype few panels made for a possible comic/graphic novel representation of the hit 1970’s movie Sholay. Also a possible spinoff series, co-written with a friend Ahmed Shaikh called the Debaucherous Adventures of Gabbar Singh: Notorious Criminal Fiend! Unfortunately, this will not see the light of day because the Sippy Bros. owners of the brand [...]

7Days.ae

A website redesign made for a prestigious newspaper based in Dubai.

IndiWo+TV18 first cuts

A few wireframes and first cuts I had worked on. Including the branding and Logo of IndiWo.com, a portal for the Indian Woman.

CricketNext.com

First logo cut for Cricket Next.com an awesome cricket site run by Web18

Tech2.0 Magazine

A prototype design for a magazine based on the successful website from Web18. I will put up inside section pages as soon as I get the permissions for them

Tech2.com Branding and Logo

Worked on the logo for the Indian tech Supersite Tech2.0. Dedicated on being on the edge of everything tech in India. Ironically, I also worked on the first design and first branding of its rival techtree.com.

Alan Moore

A tribute to one of the most finest graphic novel writers the world has ever known!

Agitation Propoganda

Oh how I love the old Russian AgitProp posters. A concept created for a personal project featuring character artwork for a future graphic novel, which is in the works. It’s tough balancing jobs as well as a dream personal project, but it’s brilliant fun and a labour of love.

Graphic Novel Concepts

Concept sketches done for a graphic novel. A work in progress, a labour of love. Still a long ways away from completion. However click on this post to check out the concepts.

Impulse Mag Illustrations

Illustrations for Impulse Magazine, for the various sections.
Featuring originally a girl in a muscle car at high speed, like most women, however, I updated this illustration a bit for the new ousiadroid site. The Original is here

This was hand drawn in photoshop to get those slight uneven lines, no vector schmector. Sometimes I really like the [...]

Impulse Magazine

Designed from scratch a magazine called Impulse, geared towards the consumers of the middle east, to guide them to the latest deals.

Stanley Kubrick

An illustration of Kubrick for Stars Magazine

Dali

An illustration on Dali

Playstation Poster

Illustration for a Playstation Magazine Poster Ad.

Woody Allen

Illustration for a story on Woody Allen’s life. Done for Stars Magazine

Stars Magazine

Redesigned this prestegious Middle East lifestyle brand. A coffee table magazine popular among the rich and famous. To reflect that upper echelon lifestyle, Stars acts as a window to the world, covering exotic travel as well as current affairs, all using high quality pictures. Printed on high quality 200GSM glossy, so the colors reproduce perfectly.

Official Playstation Magazine Middle East

Everyone knows and loves PlayStation. This is the official PlayStation magazine tailored for the Arab world. With indepth news/reviews and info about the latest video games. Worked on as an Art Director on the project, then graduated to Editor. Worked on this while I was employed with DIT Publishing.

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