SELECTED WORK
2018 —'25SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
1998 —'99 GENSENIOR CREATIVE DUO AT
@ AKQA SÃO PAULO
THX FOR YOUR VISITCONTACT
João Barabás (CW)
+55 11 94222 0044
barabasjoao@gmail.com
Gabriel Grossi (AD)
+55 11 99581 0766
gafgrossi@gmail.com
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EXPERIENCE
(2025 — Present)
AKQA São Paulo
(2018 — 2025)
404 Innovation Studio
Droga5 SP
estud.io
Wieden+Kennedy SP
BETC Havas SP
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CLIENTS
Nike, Netflix, Heinz, Google, Spotify, TikTok, Uber, Ab Inbev, Coca-Cola and more.
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RECOGNITION
Cannes Lions Festival
2023 - Shortlist - Digital Craft
2023 - Shortlist - Design
D&AD
2023 - Shortlist - Animation
Latin American Design Awards
2025 - Silver - Graphic Design
2025 - Silver - Graphic Design
2025 - Silver - Graphic Design
2025 - Bronze - Illustration
2025 - Bronze - Illustration
2023 - Gold - Animation
Brazilian Creative Club
2023 - Silver - Art Direction
2023 - Silver - Digital AD & Design
2023 - Bronze - Digital Animation
2023 - Shortlist - Illustration
2023 - Shortlist - Art Direction
2023 - Shortlist - Art Direction
2023 - Shortlist - Digital AD & Design
2023 - Shortlist - Digital Animation
2023 - Shortlist - Film Animation
2023 - Shortlist - Branded Content
2020 - Shortlist - Students
2019 - Silver - Students
Effie Awards
2019 - Shortlist - StudentsHey there. We’re João Barabás and Gabriel Grossi, better known as JOGA, a Brazilian creative duo since 2018.
We met in college, and since then we’ve done a lot of cool things together.
We cheer for São Paulo FC, but we’ve created campaigns for rival clubs.
We’ve watched countless films and TV shows before their release to come up with ideas for Netflix.
We created Spotify’s first Gen Z campaign as a Gen Z duo, with only one criterion: Would we watch this?
We came up with a horror film for Heinz.
We created a Google campaign that delivered one of the best results in brand’s history.
We launched an online marketplace.
We made cans dance inside a freezer.
We even built a burger joint menu inspired by youth playlists.
But nothing tops filming with Ronaldinho Gaúcho. JOGA BONITO.