Aligned Design.
For businesses that want to feel aligned and operate with clarity. Aligned Design turns internal vision into strategic positioning and refined visual systems that make your brand feel confident, consistent and compelling.
Does your brand feel like you, or like who you thought you had to be?
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With over 25 years of professional experience, I have led strategic and creative direction for brands across Europe, South America and international markets. My work spans strategic planning, brand architecture, visual systems and creative storytelling - grounded in cultural awareness and conceptual depth.
Experience in advertising, design studios and leadership roles has shaped a practice that combines rigorous thinking with artistic sensibility. Collaboration with global teams and creative networks ensures that each project carries cultural relevance, refined execution and strategic clarity.
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Brand development is treated as a structured process.
It begins with clarifying identity and internal alignment. From there, positioning is defined in relation to audience, market context and perception. Only then are visual and digital systems developed.
Psychological insight informs how brands are interpreted and experienced. Strategic thinking ensures differentiation and clarity. Creative direction translates both into coherent form.
Form follows structure.
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Brand work starts with thinking, not styling.
We clarify what the brand stands for, how it should be understood, and where it sits in its context. From there, identity, positioning and narrative are defined, and only then translated into visual and digital systems.Psychological knowledge helps to understand how brands are actually read - what they signal, consciously and unconsciously. Creative direction then ensures that every expression follows the same logic: clear, consistent and distinctive.
My work is shaped by movement between disciplines, cultures and contexts. Travel, art and observation are not hobbies they are part of how I think. Exposure to different environments sharpens perception and informs how I approach identity, structure and aesthetics.
I work with founders and organizations using strategic and creative leadership experience, together with psychological and art-based methods. The focus is on three things: how the brand is understood, how it is positioned and how it appears. Aligned from the Inside Out.
Core PhilosophyBrands function on multiple levels
What they are - identity, vision, intention
What they signal - psychological and perceptual impact
What they express - visual and digital systems
Aligned design enables the following
Clarity
You understand not only what you do, but how you are read by others.
Consistency
Visual systems and messaging operate on one logic, not fragments.
Credibility
Brand presence that matches internal intention with external perception.
Longevity
A system that can be extended and refined over time without incoherence.
Brand Work & Creative Direction, Identity & Positioning
Strong brands are aligned brands. Identity, positioning and design move in the same direction. With experience across international markets and psychological training, I build brand systems that are clear, credible and built to last.
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Brand Work & Creative Direction, Visual & System Design
Visual systems are developed as disciplined frameworks: typography, layout logic and image direction aligned with positioning. Design functions as the visible articulation of defined structure.
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Brand Work & Creative Direction, Digital Presence
Digital presence is not an add-on. It is a central expression of the brand. Website structure, content hierarchy and interaction logic are built from the positioning framework. The result is clarity in navigation, language and visual rhythm.
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I work with founders and organizations using strategic and creative leadership experience, together with psychological and art-based methods. The focus is on three things: how the brand is understood, how it is positioned and how it appears. Aligned from the Inside Out.
Brand Work & Creative Direction
With a background in strategic leadership and international creative direction, I develop brand systems that align internal ambition with external presence.
I work with founders and organizations to define who they are, where they stand and how they appear. Strategic positioning, visual systems and digital presence are developed as one coherent structure.
Awards & Publications
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2023, Product Design Nominee
https://designpreis.ch/project/fuck-yourself-not-the-planet/
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2016, Shortlist 6 cathegories, IBCC São Paulo
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2016, Winner Silver, Project: IBCC, São Paulo
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2016, Winner Silver + Bronze, Coca Cola, Buenos Aires
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2014, Winner Siver, Photography
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Photography, 2014 Exhibit
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Februar 2014, Kopf der Woche
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Young Creatives, Winner 2x Gold, Poster + Direct
https://www.persoenlich.com/werbung/erfolgreich-bei-den-adc-young-creatives-233343/print
https://www.hype5.ch/blog/2013/06/12/5vorcannes-johannes-doerig
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2007, Winner Gold