Straight from ‘Milan Design Week’ the talented ‘Ricardo Seola’ launches a guitar album worthy of classical praise with the epic and soothing ‘Santa Monica’

Ricardo Seola has been composing, producing and performing for more than 20 years. In Brazil, from the mid-nineties to the mid-’00s, he had recorded a great amount of material with several bands and started scoring soundtracks for short movies e advertising. In 2007 Ricardo composed “Deixa o Tempo” and produced the music video for the song. The video was awarded “Best Brazilian Independent Music Video” in one of the most prestigious movie festivals in Brazil, the Gramado Cinevideo. Taking a parallel career as a designer, which started from learning to produce his bands’ promo materials, Ricardo went to Milan in 2008 to take an interior and industrial design specialization. In his first year in Italy, he won an iF Concept Award, one of the most relevant design awards in the world, for a musical education concept. During his specialization, he kept making music, especially for movies and art installations, one of them awarded by the design online magazine Dezeen in a partnership with the wearables producer Jawbone. During the ’10s photography came as a new and complementary art passion for Ricardo. Which started as a collection of design assets for posters and marketing jobs, ended up as an art project […]