About Me
Hi my name is Iriko Gunabe ︎
I am a multidisciplinary Senior Brand Designer and Art Director with a demonstrated history of delivering exceptional projects for leading companies over the past 12+ years. I synthesize, craft, and excel at bridging the gap between creative concepts and strategic objectives that translate into compelling visual narratives. I thrive on tackling projects that push the boundaries of my skills and perspective. My expertise lies in building and refining brands through their visual identity systems, spanning from identity development and art direction to design system building, printed matter, marketing, and brand campaigns.
For me, design culminates in a lot of different places. Design is a process of thinking creatively and critically that not only makes sense to people but also produces a solution to a problem.
I’m inspired by simple things old & new. I adapt my style to many different sectors of technology, music, fashion and culture.
Experience ︎
Gantri
San Francisco, CA
Senior Brand Designer
Fellow
San Francisco, CA
Senior Brand Designer
Eleven Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Art Director - Brand Designer
2014-2020
Citrix
Sunnyvale, CA
Senior Visual Designer, Brand designer
2013- 2014
Rosetta
Senior Designer, Art Director
2012-2013
1185 Design Studio
Designer
2012-2013
Education ︎
Academy of Art University
School of Graphic Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts Studies
AIGA member
AAF Member
Graphic Artists Guild
Type Directors Club
Design Management Institute
International Society of Typographic Designers
Skills ︎
Branding
Art Direction
Design
Photography
Print
Digital design
Brand Campaign Design
Video Campaigns
.AI
CRM Creative
Experiential
Animation Direction
Creative Concepting
Website design (RWD)
Email Design
Web interactions
Social Media
Wireframing
Icon design
App Design
Illustration
Typography
Signage
Print/Package Design
Cinematography
Story Boarding
Photo Editing
Press inspection
Lighting Design
Set Design
Type Design
Presentation Design
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Hi my name is Iriko Gunabe ︎
I am a multidisciplinary Senior Brand Designer and Art Director with a demonstrated history of delivering exceptional projects for leading companies over the past 12+ years. I synthesize, craft, and excel at bridging the gap between creative concepts and strategic objectives that translate into compelling visual narratives. I thrive on tackling projects that push the boundaries of my skills and perspective. My expertise lies in building and refining brands through their visual identity systems, spanning from identity development and art direction to design system building, printed matter, marketing, and brand campaigns.
For me, design culminates in a lot of different places. Design is a process of thinking creatively and critically that not only makes sense to people but also produces a solution to a problem.
I’m inspired by simple things old & new. I adapt my style to many different sectors of technology, music, fashion and culture.
Experience ︎
Gantri
San Francisco, CA
Senior Brand Designer
Fellow
San Francisco, CA
Senior Brand Designer
Eleven Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Art Director - Brand Designer
2014-2020
Citrix
Sunnyvale, CA
Senior Visual Designer, Brand designer
2013- 2014
Rosetta
Senior Designer, Art Director
2012-2013
1185 Design Studio
Designer
2012-2013
Education ︎
Academy of Art University
School of Graphic Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts Studies
AIGA member
AAF Member
Graphic Artists Guild
Type Directors Club
Design Management Institute
International Society of Typographic Designers
Skills ︎
Branding
Art Direction
Design
Photography
Digital design
Brand Campaign Design
Video Campaigns
.AI
CRM Creative
Experiential
Animation Direction
Creative Concepting
Website design (RWD)
Email Design
Web interactions
Social Media
Wireframing
Icon design
App Design
Illustration
Typography
Signage
Print/Package Design
Cinematography
Story Boarding
Photo Editing
Press inspection
Lighting Design
Set Design
Type Design
Presentation Design
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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