Pedro A. Brêtas
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Design, to me, is a form of translation.

My work is to translate complex ideas into forms that can exist in the world. For twenty years, I have done this through brands, systems, and digital products.

Reino Studio

Reino Studio works where brand, product, and operations need to speak the same language. I co-founded it with Vinicius Malvão thirteen years ago, and since then we have helped companies in Brazil and abroad turn complex ambitions into identities, digital platforms, and systems built to grow.

The brief often begins with a website or a new brand. The work begins earlier: understanding the real problem, deciding what must remain, and building a structure that will keep working after delivery.

As creative director, I work where vision, business, and execution need to remain coherent. My responsibility is to hold the project’s argument while strategy, language, and technology take shape.

Global brand · Cariuma

From the first day

We helped build the brand system across product, packaging, and e-commerce, using real audience response to make sustainability clearer and more effective.

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Digital platform · Sextante

Ready before it had to be

We designed an editorial platform that solved the publisher’s present needs while quietly preparing the architecture for a future e-commerce operation.

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A long white hoarding carrying the GEN identity: the wordmark, a black arch, and typographic contact details, with a single person walking past it.
GEN, one visible expression of a larger system. The wordmark, the arch, and the type hierarchy remain coherent from reading size to the scale of a building.
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A company I am building

Amia Interactive

Amia Interactive is the artificial intelligence product company I founded in Rio de Janeiro. It grew from a desire to explore a different role for AI: technology that expands our capacity to notice, reflect, and decide.

The work began with conversation. Designing it meant shaping the questions, the memory, the boundaries, and everything the product should never presume about a person. That inquiry now lives in two products made for different contexts.

01 · For people

Fale com Amia

A space for self-knowledge, with conversations that help people recognize patterns, organize experiences, and build a memory of their own reflections.

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02 · For work

Amia Work

A private thinking space for professional life, made to help people work through decisions, prepare difficult conversations, and find a next step.

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The products are distinct. What connects them is a care for language, memory, privacy, and the complexity that gets lost when a system rushes to produce an answer.

A phone resting on a linen bed, showing Amia asking a reflective question in Portuguese.
Fale com Amia, the first product from Amia Interactive. The conversation makes room for reflection before it reaches for an answer.
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The questions behind the work

I write to make public the questions that the work alone cannot resolve.

Reino taught me that every form carries a decision. Building Amia made that responsibility more explicit: when the interface is made of language, every sentence can orient, rush, validate, or distort.

The essays are where I examine those choices with more time. I write about design, artificial intelligence, creativity, identity, and performance because they keep returning to the same question: what kind of person do the systems we build invite us to become?

Writing does not comment on the work after it is finished. It is where I investigate, in public, the ideas that will shape what I build next.

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If you are building a company that needs a clearer form, a product that needs a more human language, or an argument that deserves resistance, I would like to hear about it.

Pedro@reinostudio.com

For anything about Amia, oi@falecomamia.com. Both addresses reach me.