Explore and combine new textures

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You don’t always need to be gentle with texture. Mix and match, like Átila Meireles, for the most effective results.

I enjoy experimenting in my designs, to see how a single form can look like several things at once.

I mix the gorgeous with the dirty, the modern with the retro, creating atmospheres that are both beautiful and strange. I love weird and intricate things, so fear and love are two emotions that are often central to my works. In this tutorial, I'll try to explain this universe to you, where rules mean nothing because the fundamental basis of this world is the experimentation of forms, colours and textures.

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