1940
He works in Benazzato´s lithography studio.
1941
As a lithographer, he works until 1944 at Companhia Lithographica Ypiranga.
He is amazed to observe Lasar Segall executing the lithographs of the Mangue series.
1942
He becomes a student of painter Angelo Simeone at the Associação Paulista de Belas Artes, another key motivator of his work.
1944
He works at the Graphicars F. Lanzara printshop.
1945
He begins to work at Indústria Gráfica Siqueira Salles Oliveira & Cia.
1946
He creates his own printing business, Graphstudio Ltda., which he sells in 1948. In the same period, he takes a course in advertising at Associação Paulista de Propaganda and attends the Instituto de Ciências e Letras Inglesa (Redschow School).
1949
He is appointed as art director at Lintas International Advertising S.A. dedicating himself to the visual advertising programming of Gessy-Lever until 1952.
Meets Joaquim Alves, an advertising draftsmen, who stimulates him to paint, and together they go out to draw in the streets of São Paulo.
Reads the main foreign publications in the area, such as the modernist magazine Art & Industry, which keeps him abreast of information concerning current contributions to graphic and visual art, with a special focus on the work of contemporary designers and photographers.