Rui Ricardo

Rui Ricardo is an illustrator from Porto, where he lives and works.

Developing drawing skills at an early age, he had his first work published at the age of fifteen. His love for illustration and comics made him follow an artistic career and, by the time he was finishing the course of graphic design at the fine arts university of Porto, he already had four graphic novels published, not to mention countless collaborations with magazines and local comics fanzines. An invitation from a major national TV production company started him in animation and background illustration. After eight years doing animation and motion design for several TV shows, music videos and commercials, he started working exclusively as a freelance illustrator. Rui is represented in London by Folio, a major illustration agency established in 1976. Most of his work is editorial and he has collaborated with several magazines and newspapers like The Times, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Mail, GQ, Popular Mechanics, The Guardian, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Monocle, Variety, FHM, Esquire, among many more. Outside the press, he has also worked for American Express, Nespresso, Virgin, KLM, Emirates, British Airways, Air Berlin, Easy Jet, Unicef, Hasbro, Penguin Books, Volkswagen, Tommy Hilfiger, Vodafone, FNAC, Samsung, and many others.