Senior Graphic Designer · Brand Designer

Available for select opportunities

Building brands with clarity, character, and purpose.

20+Years of design experience
200+Print, digital & environmental pieces
100+Brand & learning assets per year
End-to-endConcept through production

Selected clients & employers

Amazon Royal Caribbean ION Media Newsmax Marriott Jarden Consumer Solutions Office Depot

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Selected Work

Brand systems built for real-world impact.

Identity systems, campaigns, packaging, and digital work produced for global operations, broadcast, retail, and consumer brands. Select any project for the challenge, role, approach, and what shipped.

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Process

A clear path from business problem to visual system.

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Discover

Understand the business, audience, objectives, competitive landscape, and practical constraints.

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Define

Clarify the design challenge, brand attributes, creative criteria, and measures of success.

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Explore

Develop concepts, moodboards, typography, visual territories, and multiple creative directions.

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Build

Create a cohesive identity or campaign system that works consistently across key touchpoints.

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Refine

Test, critique, iterate, and align the design with stakeholder feedback and production needs.

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Deliver

Prepare organized, production-ready assets, guidelines, templates, and implementation support.

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Expertise

Strategic thinking with senior-level execution.

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Brand Identity

Logo systems, typography, color, visual language, and practical brand guidelines teams can actually follow.

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Campaign Design

Cohesive concepts across print, digital, social, out-of-home, presentation, and environmental touchpoints.

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Editorial & Layout

Layout systems for reports, publications, brochures, presentations, and long-form content.

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Packaging & Print Production

Production-ready packaging, collateral, and print systems built for consistency and scale.

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Art & Creative Direction

Concept development, visual leadership, stakeholder collaboration, critique, and quality control.

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Design Principles

The standards behind the work.

Clarity before decoration.

Every decision needs a reason.

Consistency builds recognition.

Typography creates the voice.

Systems should support growth.

Craft matters at every scale.

Collaboration

“Angel has a rare ability to take an ambiguous brief and return something that just works — clear, on-brand, and ready for executives. He quietly raised the bar for our whole design team.”
Meredith ColeSr. Learning Program Manager · Amazon
“Every layout, brand system, and piece of collateral Angel delivered felt considered down to the last detail — polished enough for a global audience yet always in service of the message.”
Daniel FerreiraManager, Learning Experience · Royal Caribbean
“Angel is the person you want leading creative across a dozen moving parts. He kept print, digital, social, and the app perfectly in sync and never missed a deadline.”
Priya NairVP, Marketing & Brand · ION Media

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About

Design should make the message clearer and the brand stronger.

I'm Angel Castro, a Senior Graphic Designer and Brand Designer with 20+ years leading visual design initiatives, mentoring creative talent, and delivering production-ready work across brand, print, editorial, packaging, and digital systems.

Backed by a degree in Organizational Leadership, I combine creative expertise with strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration, translating business objectives into scalable creative that strengthens brand presence and drives engagement.

I've delivered this work for Amazon, Royal Caribbean, ION Television, Newsmax, Marriott, and Jarden Consumer Solutions, guiding projects from concept through execution while holding a high bar for quality and consistency.

Based

Florida · Open to remote

Focus

Brand · Print & Packaging · Digital

Education

B.S. Organizational Leadership

AmazonRoyal CaribbeanION TelevisionNewsmaxMarriottJarden Consumer SolutionsOffice Depot

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Experience

Twenty years, six creative teams.

  1. 2022 – 2026

    Senior Multimedia Designer · Visual Design Lead

    Amazon

    Brand and learning design for global operations, program identity, executive communications, print, environmental and digital collateral.

  2. 2019 – 2022

    Senior Multimedia Designer · Visual Design Lead

    Royal Caribbean

    Learning experience design for a global workforce, visual design, layout, motion and storytelling across employee programs.

  3. 2014 – 2019

    Senior Multimedia Designer · Visual Design Lead

    Newsmax TV

    Editorial layout, promotional campaigns, packaging, motion graphics and on-air design for national broadcast, on daily deadlines.

  4. 2011 – 2014

    Lead Marketing Designer · Creative Lead

    ION Media

    Led creative for 50+ integrated campaigns across broadcast, digital, print, mobile and social. Supervised and mentored distributed design teams.

  5. 2008 – 2011

    Senior Graphic Designer · Creative Lead

    Jarden Consumer Solutions

    Consumer brand and packaging design, retail collateral and print production for a national housewares portfolio.

  6. 2005 – 2007

    Art Director · Lead Designer

    Cotton & Company

    Creative concept development and art direction, translating business goals into effective visual solutions.

Recognition

  • Unsung Hero AwardAmazon
  • ASME Magazine Cover RecognitionNewsmax

Education

  • B.S. Organizational LeadershipPalm Beach Atlantic University
  • Graphic DesignWestchester Community College
  • 3D AnimationFull Sail University

Let's Work Together

Have a brand challenge worth solving?

angelgcastro1@gmail.com
Florida · Open to remote linkedin.com/in/angelgcastro Résumé (PDF)

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