He died graphic designer Ricardo Mealha – Express

The graphic designer and art director Ricardo Mealha died Sunday morning at age 47, victim of prolonged illness, he told the Lusa a friend. Born in Lisbon on October 22, 1968, had you been diagnosed, “for more than a year, a brain tumor,” added the same source.

Ricardo Mealha was responsible for the graphic image of the Ministry of culture and various organizations and services linked to it. Among the various projects developed during his career, was designer and creative director of the chain of 14 hotels Tivoli, Atlantis Crystal, the Area shops, the Museum of Design and Fashion, the Presidency of the Republic Museum and the House of Stories Paula Rego. In 2001, the designer created the design studio RMAC Brand Design, which sold five years later to BBDO Portugal group.

Since 1997, Ricardo Mealha was awarded more than 80 prizes in international national competitions where This includes the Gold Award Winner and 12 nominations at the International Forum Design, Germany.

Among the more than eight dozens of awards with which it has been distinguished since 1997, highlighting the Gold Award Winner and 12 nominations at the International Forum Design in Germany, a member of D & amp;. AD of England, awarded at the ID Design Awards in the United States and Print European Design Awards in years

Remembered by friends as a “passionate and provocative” Ricardo Mealha starred in the December 21, 2009 the first gay marriage nationwide media coverage, which despite having no legal validity was a public step that would give to “contribute to the progress of the mentality of the Portuguese in relation to what is basis of any society: human rights “

At that time, and when there were few days for the same-sex marriage be discussed and approved in parliament in an interview with then revised.” Public “, the designer – who was a missionary religion of a ‘new age’ based in the United States – argued that “marriage must be a right of all citizens.” And admitted he went through a period that he thought “that all homosexuals with a Catholic background base pass, where wondered: will I to the fire of Hell.”