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= Amanda Lobos = Amanda Lobos is a black artist and designer from Vila Velha in Espírito Santo, Brazil. She is known for incorporating Brazilian culture in her designs, and using a signature colour palette. She also incorporates her black and LGBTQIA+ identity in her designs. She often uses her art to visually represent herself and her work includes visual identity design, digital illustration, packaging, print and poster design.

She graduated from the Design course at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. In 2020, she was a part of the Adobe CoCreate MAX Team of Illustrators. She currently works as a junior creative designer at Time For Fun.

Adobe
In 2020, as part of the Adobe CoCreate Max Team, Lobos designed two posters which visually represent Brazil. The posters are designed in order to point out multiple crises in Brazilian areas.

LinkTree
In October 2020, Lobo was commissioned to create posters for LinkTree as part of a Halloween event. These posters are parodies of horror movie posters, and they depict "the horrors of digital marketing and running a small business."

Hersheys
To celebrate International Women's Day in Brazil in 2020, Lobos was commissioned alongside 7 other Brazilian artists to design limited edition packaging. The artists were to "design and participate in a music video by Yzalu, a black singer-rapper from São Paulo."

The packaging uses the words 'her' and 'she' to adapt the Hershey's logo for International Women's Day.

Snapchat
Mass Snap and Stickers for the Brazilian Valentine's Day, Dia dos Namorados, commissioned by Snapchat to be released on June 12nd of 2022.

Lobos has said: "The idea was to celebrate different shapes and forms of love between a couple without bringing literal humans to the scene, making it more ludic and embracing."

Tripbars
In 2020, Lobos designed Packaging for Tripbars, a chocolate bar infused with psylocibin made by El Plaga, in Canada.

"Trip was founded on the premise of providing lab tested and high quality shroom edibles to the people."

AfroHair Pride Fest
In 2021, Lobos created the visual identity for AfroHair Pride Fest, a festival promoting afro culture.

This included posters, wristbands, t-shirts and water bottles.

Das Pretas
In 2021, Lobos was commissioned to create the visual identity for Das Pretas. Das Pretas is a 100% Afro-centred "Social Innovation and Technology Laboratory."

These designs feature a slightly less vibrant colour scheme than Lobos' other designs.

Oxford Design Award 2020 Submission
In 2020, Oxford, a Brazil based ceramics brand promoted the Oxford Design Contest. The contest invites artists and designers to propose a plate line to be produced and distributed nationally following a theme defined each year. 2020's theme was "Uma viagem pela sua casa" (A trip inside your home).

Lobos' submission was a finalist in the contest.

Antiracist Alliance
In 2020, as part of a personal project, Lobos designed a poster depicting Antiracist Alliance. It is a digital illustration showing "Black, Yellow and Indigenous alliance represented by Brazilian native panthers, Onça Pintada."

Antiracist Alliance is an organisation against anti-black systemic racism.

Awards
In 2023, Lobos was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2023 for her design work commissioned by Snapchat.

The music video which Lobos participated in as part of her work with Hershey's won a Bronze Cannes Lions Prize in 2021.

Her other awards, such as Brasil Design Awards, Seleccionada na Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño and LAD Young Talent Awards are listed on LinkedIn.