The latest addition to our team, Janna Gomes is a self-educated and professional illustrator from Vitória, Brazil. As she has been a part of the world of drawing since she was a young girl and always liked to draw, the skill of illustrating came naturally to her. At the age of 14, Gomes took some […]

With a degree in Design and an MBA in Marketing, Karine Nelly is the head and the heart of Nelly Designers. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the CEO and Creative Director conceived the company in 2015 with two friends from the university, with the objective of creating great designs. As a child, she dreamed […]

Now having a brilliant academic career in the writing field, since she was a young girl, Nara Bretas had known exactly what she wanted to be. She had always loved playing with the words, and even created new languages with her friends at school — sometimes just to avoid getting caught by her teachers. But […]

Led by her creativity since she was a little girl, Mariana Hugueney has always loved cinema, theater, and photography. On her very first visit to the movie theater, at the age of 6, she felt so amazed that she memorized every single scene of the movie; it was an unforgettable experience. It has always been […]

Artist and graphic designer Susan Kare is known for creating many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. Over the years, she created thousands of icons for hundreds of companies and was one of the original employees of  NeXT, the company Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple in 1985, serving as […]

A former video game designer, Carol Shaw is notable for being one of the first female designers in the video game industry. In 1978, the same year she was hired as a Microprocessor Software Engineer at Atari, Inc., Shaw designed the unreleased game Polo as well as 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe. In 1982, she joined Activision and […]

Brenda Chapman is an American writer, animation story artist and director who in 1998 became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, the DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt. She also co-directed Disney/Pixar animation Brave, becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, in 2012. […]

One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. Pioneer of computer programming, Hopper created one of the first compiler related engine. She was the one who popularized the concept of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the […]

Augusta Ada King-Noel, better known as Ada Lovelace, was the Countess of Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, famous for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise the full potential of a “computing machine”, which, as she discovered, had applications beyond pure calculation. Ada […]

The American actress and producer Viola Davis is known as the first African-American actress to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one. She is also the only black actress to date to win an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony. Born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, she began her career acting in minor theater […]