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Rafael Maia

February 23, 2018

Mindsparkle Mag

Creative Carbon

Rafael Maia's Creative Carbon studio makes a dramatic entrance, floating a sculptural spirits bottle amid billowing red smoke against a stark white stage. The site then plunges into deep black, where a subtle molecular graphic underscores the studio's chemistry-themed name and a tidy list of services spans brand strategy, marketing and design with CGI. That CGI craft is the real showpiece: a dense portfolio grid packs glossy product renders, packaging and campaign work — headphones, vodka bottles, perfume, canned drinks — each finished with a slick, hyper-real polish. The high-contrast palette of black, white and vivid accent colour gives the whole page a confident, cinematic feel. It is a bold display of branding and 3D from a studio that clearly relishes making objects look irresistible.

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