My title is Vítor Cardoso and I’m a Freelance Designer at the moment primarily based in Amsterdam. Beforehand, I labored as a Senior Designer at Numbered Studio, specializing in e-commerce web sites and interactive experiences for a lot of industries equivalent to Know-how, Style, Luxurious Items, Enterprise Capital and Magnificence (each in Europe and the USA).
Challenge Highlights
Neoplants
Neoplants created a bioengineered plant that captures and recycles the 4 most harmful Risky Natural Compounds (VOC) emitted by solvents and varnishes utilized in most furnishings, textiles, cleansing, and private hygiene merchandise.
On this venture, I used to be the lead designer setting the visible course, executing all of the vectorial illustrations and designing the web site. The ensuing digital technique showcases NEO P1 as the attractive bio-engineered product it’s. Every thing from the customized graphics to the CGI explains the science behind the plant, enhances the model’s aesthetic and enhances the general consumer expertise.
↑ This venture was nominated for Website of the Month on Awwwards. Different recognition contains Website of the Day and Developer Award by Awwwards, Website of the Day on Typewolf, and a characteristic on Website Encourage. Credit belong to Numbered for digital artwork course, CGI, internet design and improvement.
Enginzyme
Enginzyme’s expertise makes use of enzymes (organic catalysts from dwelling organisms) to hurry up chemical reactions below milder, extra sustainable situations than conventional chemical catalysts.
Because the lead designer, I translated Enginzyme’s newly established model id, developed by my colleagues at Numbered, right into a clear company web site that articulates the mission in an accessible means for all audiences (engineers, scientists, journalists, and so forth). This was finished primarily with a concise options web page highlighting sensible purposes for corporations, and a expertise web page that includes a bespoke, interactive particle system with progressive disclosure of data explaining why Enginzyme is a greater and extra sustainable various.
↑ This venture was featured on Website Encourage. Credit belong to Numbered for digital artwork course, model id, CGI, internet design and improvement.
Ogér
Ogér is a luxurious trend model that turned the cornerstone of high-end Italian menswear in The Netherlands. The model was based in 1989 in Amsterdam.
The problem for redesigning the Ogér web site was to deliver the identical consideration to element and heat that clients expertise in-store. After the Inventive Director outlined the type for the brand new Ogér web site, I developed the total e-commerce by rolling out a heat color palette impressed by the present branding, timeless fonts mirroring the elegant particulars in-store and including interactive components on editorial pages to create a pleasing expertise.
↑ Credit belong to Numbered for digital artwork course and e-commerce design. Growth by Flatline.
Conscious
Conscious gives digital certifications for manufacturers, telling the distinctive story of every garment from the farm to the shop utilizing blockchain expertise. An initiative that goes past conventional frontiers to ensure the authenticity, traceability and high quality of trend merchandise.
The unique web site had a number of pages and few belongings, making it arduous to know Conscious’s key advantages and the way it works. Because the lead designer, I created a easy, one-page advertising and marketing web site with a robust hierarchy and customized illustrations that successfully talk the worth proposition. By consolidating scattered data right into a concise, user-friendly structure, the brand new web site made it simpler for potential clients to know the product and e-book a demo.
↑ Conscious was featured on Website Encourage and Maxibestof (Crème de la crème). Credit belong to Numbered for digital artwork course, internet design and improvement.
RAAD
RAAD is a local weather mapping community that gives correct, real-time knowledge on excessive climate for presidency businesses, insurance coverage corporations, native companies, basic residents and extra.
Because the lead designer, I created a one-page structure that brings the dynamic id and iconography developed by my colleagues at Numbered to life. This design delivered a tangible illustration of the corporate’s mission and imaginative and prescient, clearly illustrating how the expertise serves completely different goal audiences and highlighting the substantial monetary impression of stopping pure disasters.
↑ This venture received Website of the Day on Awwwards. Credit belong to Numbered for digital artwork course, model id, internet design and improvement.
Avenir
Avenir Progress is a enterprise capital agency investing in future-forward corporations (the portfolio contains Savage X Fenti, Klaviyo, Drizzly, and DuckDuckGo).
The principle problem in redesigning Avenir Progress’s web site was the dearth of visible belongings. As a result of Avenir means “future”, I created a singular artwork course utilizing clear, vectorial illustrations, that might be utilized in different supplies. This offered a constant search for all communications, together with the web site, the place we added refined micro-animations that made the general expertise extra participating and “techie”.
↑ This venture was featured on Website Encourage. Credit belong to Numbered for digital artwork course, internet design and improvement.
Background
My skilled journey began after I graduated with a BFA in Communication Design from the College of Positive Arts (College of Lisbon). I began as a junior designer at COMON in Portugal, then relocated to Eire the place I labored at WONDR and DEPT. In 2021, I moved to the Netherlands and labored as a Senior Designer for Numbered Studio till March 2025. As a designer, I’ve at all times been targeted on creating the perfect graphic design with out allegiance to a mode, medium, technique, or trade, which has solely been made potential by collaborating with like-minded individuals who have impressed me alongside the best way.
Inspiration
Consuming and producing artwork has at all times been a supply of inspiration as a result of it helps me discover sudden connections and opens my thoughts to a world of prospects. As a baby, my older sister would hand-draw motion figures for me to color (my favorite was Batman). In highschool, I carried a graphic diary all over the place to seize unusual life moments and experiment with completely different supplies and methods. One in every of my breakthroughs occurred after I began including shadows to my drawings by copying the works of Robert Longo, permitting me to create hyper-realistic drawings which might be nonetheless hung in my lounge right now. Later on the Positive Arts School in Lisbon, I took still-life and bare drawing lessons for 4 years.
↑ All the pictures above are drawings created between 2010 and 2015.
All through this journey I realized that creativity is just not a expertise you might be born with, it’s a talent you purchase over time. As designers, we’re at all times trying to create one thing new, however the very act of creation is constructed on what got here earlier than, a relentless evolution and reinterpretation of our world, “a duplicate, of a duplicate, of a duplicate”. In my opinion, creativity has nothing to do with being unique or gifted. In contrast to design, artwork doesn’t must be significant or helpful, it’s merely self-expression. That’s the reason I discover it inspiring.
Design Philosophy
The web right now is overloaded with data. There are too many web sites. Too many screens. Too many companies. Too many content material creators. An excessive amount of AI-generated content material. References are the identical. Manufacturers look the identical. It’s fast-paced. We see an excessive amount of. We keep in mind too little. Particulars are lacking. Messages get misplaced. Manufacturers wrestle to face out, and audiences don’t care.
For many corporations, technique and craftsmanship are separate entities, and craftsmanship is both not a precedence or utterly missed. When an organization doesn’t have a singular id, it turns into misplaced within the aggressive panorama. And not using a clear imaginative and prescient, it falls below the temptation to overwhelm customers with decisions (who’re already struggling to discern worth). Put it this manner, putting visuals with out a compelling narrative result in aimless execution, and an excellent technique that’s poorly executed will fail to transform.
That’s the reason corporations have to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit that made them profitable within the first place by investing in putting visuals and defining a transparent function. Probably the most profitable corporations perceive the significance of this and can proceed to spend money on it as they develop. That’s how we minimize by way of the noise in a world consistently competing for consideration and construct manufacturers that resonate with customers.
Closing Ideas
Whereas many concern Synthetic Intelligence will remove inventive jobs, the actual risk is long-term stagnation. Lack of progress left professionals susceptible to modifications in creativity or expertise jobs earlier than AI turned mainstream.
AI permits us to discover many concepts at unprecedented velocity. It’s nice for iteration, however it has no style. The flexibility to discern, refine, and elevate our work is the differentiation issue. As content material floods, we should deal with the nuanced particulars that make our craft actually distinctive and proceed to assist one another on what we’re actually good at: content material curation, not content material creation.
What’s Subsequent?
March 2025 marked the tip of a long-term collaboration as Senior Designer at Numbered. I joined early as worker quantity 5 and noticed the studio develop, met inspiring founders from completely different industries and labored with good individuals who helped me obtain the largest spotlight of my profession – Website of the Month Nomination on Awwwards. I’m actually grateful for this expertise.
Now, it’s time for one thing new. First, I’m constructing my freelance design apply to assist founders develop their companies. Second, I’ll dedicate a while to creating private ventures. Beginning with a job board for distant staff with a deep sense of group. Adopted by an ethically sourced tinned seafood firm to alter the notion of canned fish.
For those who’re concerned with following my journey or discussing a possible collaboration, don’t hesitate to succeed in out by Electronic mail or Linkedin.
