I am a communication designer with over 20 years of international experience in branding & visual identity design. I have worked with a wide variety corporate, non-profit, educational, institutional and cultural clients, including global actors in the transportation & energy sectors. I see designing as an open and inclusive process that allows us to generate new ways of seeing, shaping and being in the world.My research focuses on how meaning is constructed, experienced and communicated visually through design-led branding. I have teaching experience in visual culture, media studies, visual rhetoric, advertising communications & graphic design. My Masters thesis examined designing in the service of social movements.Specialties: Brand strategy & design, communication design, visual identity design, human-centered design, space branding & experience design, cross-cultural communications, creative strategy & consulting, print media design & production, information design, signage & wayfinding, creative leadership & teamwork, teaching & mentoring, visual storytelling & public speaking.