About me
I've been working at Africa in São Paulo for the past 5 years. First as a creative director for Vivo (Spanish Grupo Telefônica), Mitsubishi Motors, Brahma Beer and Budweiser. Since 2014 I became an Executive Creative Director and became responsible for the agency's other accounts. Africa is now Brazil's 3rd largest advertising agency and last year it was elected by Advertising Age as the International Agency of the year. I'm also a professor at Miami Ad School in São Paulo and I've worked as a scriptwriter on two different feature films.
AWARDS.
18 Cannes Lions; Art Director's Club Europe, pencils at the One show and D&AD, some gold, silver and bronze medals at El Ojo de Iberoamerica, Creative Club of Portugal and Creative Club of São Paulo; Jay Chiat Awards and 70 Luerzer's Archive Publications *most published copywriter of the magazine in 2012.
LANGUAGES
My native language is Portuguese and I'm fluent in English (studied two years in the USA) and spanish (also lived in Chile).
Awards
ADC (The Art Directors Club) Awards, Cannes Lions, Clios - Gold, EPICA Awards, Eurobest Award Shortlist, LIA Award - Gold
Clients
Nissan - Honda - Mitsubishi - FIAT, Telefônica - Portugal Telecom - TIM
Trade Associations
Rafael Pitanguy was recognised as an Industry Influencer on 15th March 2016
on 21st September 2021 Project featured:Endangered Streamers
on 21st September 2021 Project featured:Los Santos +3ºC
on 2nd October 2023 Project featured:Black Coaches
on 3rd October 2023 Pro member:
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Rafael Pitanguy has been a Contributor since 15th March 2016.