Ricardo Landim

I'm developing a unique compact synthesizer — tailored to my own needs as a musician. Most compact keyboards squeeze pads into two rows. feed/back has the full four-by-four grid finger drummers learn on, right next to thirteen notes from C to C.

But most interestingly, this is a device that allows players to talk to it through the companion app on the iPhone or iPad. It turns what you say into changes the instrument can make, leaves alone anything you asked it to keep, and plays the result while your loops carry on.

A series of short films that bring Brazil’s little-known myths into the present day. In the first, Os Olhos (The Eyes), the heir to a family estate in Mato Grosso tells a state inspector he saw nothing of the fire that burned its protected forest, and then the animals that died in it start turning up whole, with their eyes gone.

Debaixo do asfalto means “beneath the asphalt.” Modern Brazil was poured over very old ground, and each film is a myth coming back up through it. In 'Os Olhos' it’s the Boitatá, the fire serpent of Brazilian legend that ate the eyes of the dead and filled with their light.

Finger drumming is playing beats with your fingertips on a grid of pads. Padwork teaches it from the first beat, on a MIDI pad controller or on pads drawn on the screen. Melodics, the best-known app for this, skips standard notation for a scrolling grid and rewards progress like a game. Padwork uses real drum notation, and a note only counts as on time if you hit it within 20 milliseconds of the click. Progress is shown as your own numbers in plain sentences, with no points, streaks or badges.

You don’t need a controller to start. The pads on the screen play the sounds of a real acoustic kit. Every tap is timed on the same clock as the click and scored by the same rules as a hit on a controller.

I’m a finger drummer, and I wanted a practice tool that tells me the truth about my timing. It started as a set of drills for myself and grew into a path of lessons for anyone starting from zero.

Every day is the same for Kar: his palm on the bedroom window at sunrise, the bench at the station, a white room with no windows where he works alone, ramen in the same booth every night.

The title splits Icarus into I, Kar and us, because any of us could be him. The film is about loneliness and a routine that doesn’t feel like living, in a city where nobody looks up.

A check-in app for the matches you see in person. Check in at the game, and your history builds across grounds, teams and countries, shared with friends.

The app was born out of my passion and obsession for the sport. I'm a lifelong fan, and having gone to all the World Cups since 2014, I felt the need to have a place to save the matches I've been to, the details and the memories.

Designed, written and built on my own, with AI implementing it, three weeks from the first locked screen to the App Store.

The travel warning you need is often already out there—buried in a forum, scattered across articles, or disconnected from the place you’re visiting.

ScamAtlas brings that information together as location-specific guidance, with tools for assessing situations that feel off. I built it around the moment that matters: when you need to decide what to do next.

Spots for Verizon’s home tech insurance, made over four years. They range from pure CGI to live action mixed with 3D and visual effects.

For Valentine’s Day, we asked people on Twitter for the worst gifts they’d ever received. A used toaster and a burnt chicken were among the answers.

Twenty of those stories became a collection of NFTs made with Chibi Labs, to promote Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband.

Holiday shopping is stressful, so Verizon turned it into something people already enjoy: watching holiday movies. Working with the studios, we reworked classic scenes from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Charlie Brown Christmas and more into a gift guide. When Clark Griswold flips out, up pops a Galaxy Z Flip. When the Peanuts gang dances to “Linus and Lucy,” an Apple Music offer.

For the final season of Game of Thrones, we gave Fios a way into the conversation: a quiz that told fans which house they belonged to, answered with a short video made for each fan and ready to share.

A selection of films and videos I made for Verizon over seven years, on limited budgets, with partners like Tendril, Future Deluxe and Framestore.

Progressive covers almost everything, from homes and cars to dogs, so for April Fools’ Day we added one more policy. Name Your Prank put anyone into a fake news story in two steps, with 27 stories to choose from, each from a made-up publication. People with no prank planned had one ready in seconds.