My name is Ana Isabel Ramos. I am a graphic designer, UX/UI designer, an illustrator and knitwear designer living in and working from Lisbon, Portugal.
I work with clients in a range of projects that covers:
• new logos and corporate identity
• magazines and book covers
• digital interfaces like apps and websites.
My training as a designer informs my illustrations, too, and I always have general page and spread composition in mind when I create:
• illustrations for magazines
• children’s books
• graphic novels
I love using my hands to create new things, and I enjoy using embroidery as a medium to illustrate my own stories. My first book, coming out in the Autumn of 2023, was written and illustrated through embroidery by me. Please sign up to receive my weekly newsletter to be the first to know when it is ready for pre-order.
My love for design, for creating things and for sharing them with the world is best shown in my knitwear designs and my embroidery designs. You can purchase my knitting designs here and my embroidery designs here to stitch them yourself.
You can find me on Instagram, LinkedIn, ravelry, and on Anita no Trabalho, the podcast I co-host with my friend Eli about female entrepreneurship (in Portuguese). And you can sign up to receive my weekly letters to peek behind the scenes of the studio.
Here’s how to work with me.
My lovely clients at the Magnolia Inn have said the following about working with me:
“As far as working with Ana, in all honesty she is a pleasure to work with. She does what she says and when she says she will do it. Ana was always prompt when responding to our feedback. She listened to our ideas and incorporated them into the sketches like we wanted. And her sketches are beautiful and fun and detailed with an air of whimsy to them… they’re great”.
By the way, I loved working with them too! And the same is true about working with Maria João, who says:
“O trabalho de design é bastante complexo, pois implica a capacidade de conciliar o trabalho técnico com gostos pessoais do cliente, o que acredito nem sempre seja fácil de conseguir. Ao trabalhar com a Ana, sempre a senti dedicada e bastante preocupada em ir de encontro ao que eu pretendia,conseguindo encontrar soluções criativas e perfeitamente alinhadas com os meus interesses e gostos. Só tenho elogios e recomendo vivamente o seu trabalho!”
Maria João Ceitil, coach, formadora e consultora em Recursos Humanos
My work was featured:
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in the Portuguese national weekly Expresso, where I talked about my love for sketching;
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in “Stitch-Illo”, volume S of Uppercase’s Encyclopedia of Inspiration;
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in Uppercase Magazine, from Canada. You can read about it here, here and here. Or my guest post, where I share a personal story of how craft and creativity helped me integrate in my new communities when living abroad;
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the air Embroidery Club was featured in the Fall 2017 issue of Calm magazine, from Portugal;
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Anita no Trabalho, the podcast Eliana and I co-created and co-host, was featured in Time Out magazine, Porto edition, in August 2016;
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in Prevenir magazine’s April 2016 issue, where I talked about the benefits of knitting;
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in July 2014, the air Embroidery Club was featured in an article in Flow Magazine;
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in February 2014, the nice folks over at Projeto Lida posted a long conversation with me;
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in October 2012 I had the privilege to be featured in an article on Betrend about new embroidery;
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in September 2012 I was featured in “On the Side Project”, a blog about entrepreneurs. You can read the full text here.
Incomplete client list:
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Portugal)
Bloxtor (Portugal)
Revista Prevenir (Portugal)
World Food Programme, United Nations (Panama)
Levend Beriker & Associates (Turkey)
Alta Bering (Canada)
Magnolia Inn (Panama)
Unilever (Portugal)
Rosa&Teixeira (Portugal)
ev+pp arquitectos (Argentina)
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Portugal)
Geota (Portugal)
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