Featured Artist: Michael Brito
**New to BittBox** the Showcase section. No, this isn’t a showcase for MY work, I’m showing off YOUR work. BittBox will choose one artist each month from the BittBox User Showcase Group at Flickr to be featured on BittBox with 5-10 works, along with a short interview. This is just one more way BittBox is trying to help designers/artists and the design community in general. By funneling traffic to individual artists and showcasing their designs, we not only get some KILLER INSPIRATION, but the artists get exposure at the same time. Good luck, and say hello to our first artist: Michael Brito.
Artists Website:
www.bybreets.blogspot.com
Artists Flickr Page:
Michael Brito at Flickr
Interview with the artist:
BittBox:
Tell us a little about yourself.
Michael Brito:
I’m just an ordinary guy. I work as a graphic designer, do freelance design and illustration on the side and try to be a good father and husband. My day is pretty full.
BittBox:
What drives you? What keeps you interested in design?
Michael Brito:
I like to be fresh and bring something new to the design community. I am inspired by good designers and tend to look into the past to see what great designers have done.
BittBox:
If you could tell everyone out there 1 thing about your work, what would it be? Maybe a unique skill you have, or rare technique you use?
Michael Brito:
I do a lot of sketching and research before I start a project. I would say that this stage probably takes longer than the actual finished piece. I feel that the more time I take in planning the better the composition will be.
BittBox:
Name at least 1 quirky or dorky thing you do for inspiration or to pass boredom in those “design-block” moments.
Michael Brito:
I do a bunch of so called geeky things. Play with toys, watch cartoons, and read comic books. If none of that works then I go and workout, that usually works.
BittBox:
Music while you work? Yes, No, Sometimes, or Blaring Constantly?
Michael Brito:
Yes, definitely unless I am working late at night (don’t want to wake up the kids). I think that music helps shape the work and some of my illustrations and designs have been highly influenced by some of my favorite artists or songs.
BittBox:
Do you have a favorite artist or a few that influenced you more than others?
Michael Brito:
I have a lot of favorites. for graphic design I love Saul Bass, Paul Rand, and Stefan Sagmiester to name a few of the more influential designers. for illustration I like Picasso, Dalek, Futura, Mike Giant, and Doze Green. I know that I am missing others, but this list could go on forever.
BittBox:
Anything else you would like to say to the readers?
Michael Brito:
No matter how discouraged you are just keep working, always be experimenting with new techniques, medium, whatever. push the boundaries. Don’t just do what everyone else is doing because then your competing with everyone else, be different and get noticed.
There you have it. Michael Brito style.
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I got first comment!
one each month? why not one each week? =]
and awesome idea.
Your work is amazing! Congrads to being the Official First I am sure this will begin great things for you! once again beautiful work!!!
congrats mr.brito!
the first and the last one are the best ones i think
Hey, this is completely out of the topic..but nevertheless…. I’d like to ask how you made your brand new logo (Bittbox)…please tell us how:) just like the way you did on your refelcted logo… i’d truly appreciate it!
I hope i’m not being too annoying..im just keen to learn new things..
Thank you!
Great work there Brito, keep it up.
Good luck to you.
Love your work Brito,
vibrant and fresh!
Congrats on the feature.
Peace!
great work!
what a great idea =)
Hey, I was wondering if you have any tips on using multiple gradients? I just started using illustrator and it confuses me a little, how to use them properly.
thanks everyone.
I´m very happy to find this site… I think it´s a very good inspirational tool for designers….
KEEP ON WITH THE GOOD WORK BRITO!!
it’s good to know about the people who are into grapgic design. i hope this will help us to get inspired and know about the designers whom we dont know. definitely this will help us. looking forward for more interviews.
btw thanks for this.
you inspired me, Brito!!! how great you are!!!
Absolutely fantastic work! I really enjoyed it. It’s pretty hard to believe that these are all done on the computer. I mean, that they’re not scanned in or anything.
I hope you showcase different kinds of artists too. I saw a video once where a guy used PAINT to do some pretty good car art, and the result was pretty impressive. Mostly because he did it on paint, and so had to do the shadows and things all manually. It was really well done! I hope you also showcase those kinds of things…
As an artist, I believe that people like us have very limited exposure. It takes a while before we get discovered because of competition. We’re great in number but only very few gets the chance to be featured. Your scheme is very helpful to fellow artists. But I wonder, what does this give you in return?