Giancarlo Renzi Y. Multidisciplinary Designer/////////
bio:
As an Italo-Costarrican Multidisciplinary Designer with over 8 years of experience in the design field, I hold Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Industrial Desi gn. Over the course of my career, I have developed a specialized focus in "Branding" through my work exp erience, continuous learning through courses, practice, and research. My expertise encompasses various disciplines including graphic design, video editing, photography, sound design, signage, as well as other interior design implementations. I have had the privilege of working in both boutique studios and international companies, as well as serving clients of all sizes as a freelancer.
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Work
(2014-Current) Freelance - Multidisciplinary Designer: Since 2014, I have been running my own brand "Raido" for music production and mastering, which has expanded to include my design services for concurrent freelance clients. My work includes logo design for tech startups and design studios in Panama, UI graphic design for video games, branding for media/content creators, and lobby redesign for one of Amazon's buildings in Costa Rica. Full-time freelancing since 2023.
(2022-2023) Lionbridge - Senior Graphic Designer: Serving Motorola as part of Lionbridge's Global Team, I am responsible for designing training prints and decks, as well as creating social media assets. Additionally, I handle branding work, such as packaging for launch kits, carrier-specific branding, and promotional material logos.
(2018-2021) <elastica> - Multidisciplinary Designer: As a part of a team of designers at a boutique design studio in Costa Rica, I worked on furniture, signage, and environmental graphics for hospitality and retail spaces. My responsibilities also included graphic design, video editing, photography, music, and sound design for branding, including projects for Honda Costa Rica and Marriott Hotels.
(2019-2020) YogaHealer - Multidisciplinary Designer: Working remotely for a US-based company, I was responsible for content development during their December-February social media/events campaign. This included creating graphic designs for flyers, landing webpages, banners, and other assets, as well as video editing and sound design for their two podcasts.
(2016-2017) Duco Lab - Industrial Designer: As an Industrial Designer at a Mexican design firm, I specialized in furniture design and graphical work.
(2016) Savvy - Industrial Design Intern: During my internship at an international design studio with locations in Mexico and NYC, my responsibilities included 3D modeling, blueprints, and renders.
Education
(2018) ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (Spain): Master's in Product Design and Development
(2010-2015) Universidad Veritas (Costa Rica): Bachelor’s in Product Design.
(1996-2010) Lincoln Internation School (Costa Rica): Elementary, Middle, and High School with IB certificates in Math, Physics and Computer Science.
General Skills:
Social Media Content development:
Graphic Design, Simple Animations, Copy, +
Brand Creation: Development from Concept to Brandbook and Applications.
Photography and Video: Shooting and Editing.
Signage, environmental graphics: Development of 2D/3D assets for production.
Furniture Design:
Design and Blueprints for furniture, preferably metal and wood.
3D Modeling and Rendering: Blender and game/production ready assets
User Research and User Persona Profiling: Research for Product Development.
Sound Design and Music Production: 10+ years of experience. Music, Sound Design and Soundtracking.
Softwares:
Graphic Design and Photography
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Ligthroom
Figma
Video
Adobe Premiere
3D
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MISC. DESIGN BRANDING
APPLIED
BRANDING
BRANDS
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BRANDING
BRANDING
Brand Identity & book for a tech startup focused in providing connections between people that look for excellence in home care and people that can provide it.
Main logotype
Variations
Color Palette
Spinnaker
NanumMyeongjo
SPINNAKER NANUMMYEONGJO
Brand Identity & book for a digital health company focused on the reduction of critical cardiovascular events and mortality through the use of innovative medical devices.
project in collaboration with Laura Loaciga
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Color Palette
Brand Identity & book for Panama-based multidisciplinary design studio; focused on clean bold design with a little grit to create human-centered experiences.
Main logotype
Variations Color Palette
APPLIED BRANDS
APPLIED BRANDS
Furniture, graphic design and other digital content was at the core of this proyect. Inspired by the joint greeko-italian heritage of its owners, the brand was worked to be clean graphical work , honest materials and a dash of nostalgia.
project in collaboration with elastica
>Taking heavy inspiration from vintage Italian design and bringing it back to a contemporary setting with the use of color blocking. Focused on a minimalistic approach to structure and materials to be able to create an aesthetically lightweight that properlyly ties in with the brand identity.
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>Food and spatial photography for menu.
>I developed sound and artwork alongside another designer to populate Olympia’s social media alongside the development of its “sonic identity” and the rest of the social media to create an integral experience.
Kinkara is located in the foothills of Costa Rica’s highest mountain, a vision of luxury harmoniously wrapped in nature. Furniture design, environmental graphics, interior design, and project management for design applications within the site.
project in collaboration with elastica
>3 months immersed in the “Kinkara Lifestyle”; moved to Perez Zeledón to start the development of the design applications within the main project’s grounds. Signage and environmental graphics around the area tie in with the energy-centric experience Kinkara was envisioned to be. Furniture design as well as interior design applications and items to be help tie everything together. The project was done alongside an international team to deliver a well-rounded adventure that also took into consideration giving back to the regional native tribes.
Kinkara is located in the foothills of Costa Rica’s highest mountain, a vision of luxury harmoniously wrapped in nature. Furniture design, environmental graphics, interior design, and project management for design applications within the site.
Marriot Vacation Cluc is being developed in Costa Rica next to the current “Marriot Los Sueños”. I worked on signage for both projects taking the “Hacienda” latin-american aesthetic and the nature that surrounds the project as inspiration.
project in collaboration with elastica
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Creating a system, one that combines a design language with practical modulation guides. Of the many iterations and explorations we find that for this language of elegant simplicity, you only need really beautiful wood, white clear letters and simple evocative diagonals that bring the design forward.
The combination of all these elements creates opportunities for incredible flexibility in material and pattern combinations that are naturally elegant.
SHADES
In Colonial legacy, wood was the technology that made sea travel possible, enabling the tradition of European timberwork to eventually reach American shores; this evolved into a highly recognizable rustic aesthetic, and our local forest woods only made this expression richer. Our wayfinding materials play tribute to the legacy of the Hacienda, of the agrarian. Crafted by extracting the essence of that elegance from the selection of different tones of timbers: a dark variant that recalls deep forest, native wood work, and the night, a caramelized variant that connects with European elegance, and a light contrasting variant that channels the new and refreshing.
INDUSTRIAL CRAFT
Each time has a way of craft. Great Colonial ships roamed the seas with exquisite handwork that required hundreds of hours and men, it appealed to a time of survival and expansion; highly illustrative and ornamental languages expressed this domination of man over nature. Modernism with its simple lines and geometry created a new language of elegance and civility, abstract nuance became king and industrial production replaced craft. Design today requires local character and international language, craft and industry. Our wayfinding system brings forth the best of both worlds, recognizing human materials that are warm local and rich, treated in an industrial manner of material savings and efficiency.
> Our process for this “Hacienda by the Sea” evokes three design principles: tropical rustic, elegance in craft and geometric simplicity. Real forest wood that should be both sustainably sourced and representative of Costarrican Pacific culture. An elegance that is not born out of ornamentation and flare but rather of: the material, the simplicity of craft, and hanwork that is balanced with machine production. Finally, clear, light and defined geomtric lines callout to illustrations that challenge our guests to decipher and explore.
VACATION CLUB
MISC. DESIGN
GRAPHICS
Daily poster personal project, 90+ at the time of writting this, focused on acient symbolism.
