Interview with Impactplan Art Productions

impactplan is a creative agency located in Portugal, working worldwide. Our team is composed by amazing people between designers, marketeers, creatives, thinkers, dreamers...We create instagrammable art installations to have real impact on businesses and in peoples lives!

For me design is about beauty and simplicity that make people fell something and improve peoples live's even if just for a moment

I prefer the more colorful art installations because we can watch the effect they have on most of the people, it makes them smile or feel happier

The Umbrella Sky Project because of its simplicity and utility, creating beautiful scenarios wile providing shade and protection

you never now when creativity can happen so I'm always prepared to write down ideas or take pictures of inspiring things

if the installations will produce a good picture easy to capture

energy and enthusiasm

Happy and proud of my team's work

the impact it has on people and surroundings

How do I fell when interacting with the design

making the world a better place even with small acts

The future and the challenge is being eco friendly in everything we do

Last exhibition was in a shopping mall in Bordeaux, we have several new exhibitions schedule for this Christmas in Portugal, France, England, EUA

a lot of research, trying new things and always be thinking in the problems even when out of the office ..to be creative we have to live and love what we do 100% because it never shuts down we can't program us to be creative just between working hours

Me and my team work on visual art installations, based on color repetitions and miss placing objects to create impact.
We search for the perfect photos to share on social media and that is noticeable on all our designs

Portugal, because we are located in Europe we can travel fast an easy to different countries that are so different and were its easy to be inspired that is a enormous pro. The cons are related to how people in Portugal react to art work I think most of the population doesn't value art has in for example in France or England, specially different forms of art

our company found a way to apply art to business, so most of our costumers will look for us to use our work to attract people to local stores, or to bring life to a forgotten part of a city

the best designers I think are the ones who listen to clients needs and improve their designs by adding they inputs without compromising the results of the work that is being done

I brainstorm and research with the team and altho sometimes its really difficult to come up with solutions, we try a lot of things that don't work until we find it.

balcony swings, lego art of Marylin Monroe, monkey table chandelier, sculpture called Cactus man its a vase with a men with cactus air from a local artist, an enclosed terrarium from a French artist

I wake up at 7:30 and rush to be at work at 8:30, have lunch at work or at home and work until 17:30 / 18H / 20h depends on the enthusiasm and need, sometimes I work out, but I would arrive home between 20h/21h eat dinner, read a book, search and search for random things on Pinterest or YouTube tutorials on how to make random things and go to sleep around 1:00

keep it simple, don't follow the trends, listen more than you talk, focus on good, try, fail, try again, and again, never give up, things only happen for hard workers ...

The positives is being able to have impact on places or peoples lives with what we do (I personally don't lose the opportunity to do so) and the negative would be that we never shut down from work we are always searching, observing or studying sometimes it can be overwhelming

simplicity, design for others not for yourself

never stop listening, studying, be aware of what surrounds you

pinterest, instagram, google, books, samples of different materials, talking to different people not necessarily designers...

I love what I do, so when I'm researching or writing down ideas at home it feels natural, because I'm doing what I like. Its a 24/7 job to create you have to have your mind on what you are doing all the time, because ideias don't come just when we want them too, we have to keep alert

depends on the project and the clients needs, but I think we work really fast and can build projects from the design to the execution in 1 month, but we have projects that are developed in years

what inspired you?

all my jobs made me how I am today, since working in coffee shops, stores, with fashion, events. I had a lot of different occupations before making my company successful and working full time in my projects

Most are cities and malls, Promenade Sainte Catherine, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Carp, City of Coral Gables, city of Laon, city of Águeda...

Outdoor Art installations, because they make art look easy and more accessible to everyone

don't make big planes we go with the flow trying to innovate but always aware of what is happening around us

as a team always try to use the best skills of everyone in the team

we are experimenting a lot with recycled materials and creating a re-use system in the company so things can be used and transformed over and over again

I'm always available trough Facebook, instagram, LinkedIn , e-mail, WhatsApp ... 24h/7 :)