Cris Kashima

Cris Kashima

Designer & Art Director in São Paulo, Brazil, She/Her

About

Hello, I'm Cris Kashima, an Art Director and Senior Multidisciplinary Designer based in São Paulo but open to work abroad.

I have 9+ years of experience working with design studios, publishers and big tech corporations. My last role was as Senior Designer at Nubank, and now I'm currently a Senior Designer at IBM, focused on art direction and concepts for campaigns, graphic design, data visualization, illustration and audiovisual projects.

I'm a very curious person and I love to experiment with new techniques and processes, but to be able to bring visual outcomes through storytelling and genuine connections is what truly makes me happy and grateful in my career.

Features

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Anywhere / Remote

Co-founder, Art Director, and Designer at 3 Marias, a collaborative design studio focused on social projects that align with our values and beliefs. We work on initiatives we believe in, driven by purpose and passion for positive change.

2024 — Now
Senior Designer SP / NY at IBM
Hybrid (São Paulo, Brazil)

Senior Designer on IBM's Brand Marketing Advertising team, working from São Paulo in close collaboration with the New York team to bring multiple visual projects to life for Sports & Entertainment Partnerships, including the US Open, Grammys, Wimbledon, and The Masters. Responsible for designing and conceptualizing campaigns across print, digital, and audiovisual platforms, as well as data visualization and illustration, collaborating with renowned agencies and studios such as BUCK and CATK. Additionally, I serve as a creative mentor within IBM, offering guidance and support to employees navigating their creative careers.

2022 — 2023
Hybrid (São Paulo, Brazil)

Worked closely with the audiovisual team performing as an Art Director, aligning the business and marketing strategy with social media content and journalism team for all kinds of projects such as: campaigns, photoshoots, editorial (both print and digital – websites, videos, animation), data visualization, illustrations, commissioning design freelancers and illustrators, career mentoring, team tasks management, workflow organization and more.

2021 — 2022
Hybrid (São Paulo, Brazil)

In May 2021, after freelancing for the company for about one year, I received the opportunity to be part of the team as a full time Creative Designer. During the course of the first year I helped to create the Design Team at Publisher (Squad), developing organizational skills such as tasks management for creatives and archives and files systems with Google Drive. Also created a variety of content projects such as: Data Nubank (an annual report about brazilian customers behavior with money), special articles for Fala Nubank Blog with illustrations and data viz, creation of Nu Explica (a completely animated video series that explains finance in an easy way) and more.

2021 — 2021
Remote (São Paulo, Brazil)

Briefly joined Colletivo, in January 2021, for 5 months to work closely with visual identities, branding, digital ads and packaging for a variety of clients, but specially for Cervejaria Colorado / AMBEV (brewery), creating their illustrated and heavily typographic labels alongside illustrators, strategists, clients and the studio partners.

2019 — 2020
São Paulo, Brazil

Freelanced as a Brand Designer with Estúdio Irà for special projects, working closely with clients and both partners since the very beginning until final touches, for example: doing interviews, exchanging ideas, creating brainstormings, first drafts, structuring the branding and identity system, and more.

2018 — 2020
São Paulo, Brazil

In June 2018, I joined Estudio Nono as a full-time Generalist Designer, performing with different kinds of projects such as editorial (books, magazines, reports), commissioning illustrations, data visualization, branding, visual identity for events and packaging.

2017 — 2018
Multidisciplinary Designer at Editora Globo
São Paulo, Brazil

Editorial/newsroom environment and one of the biggest publishers in Brazil. I became a full-time designer at Época magazine from 2017 until it’s last year before folding, contributing with creation of unique layouts for a variety of content, also commissioning illustrators and photographers for special images and projects, art directing photoshoots, developing data visualization systems, adapting the print magazine for iPad, mentoring interns and more.

2015 — 2016
Design Intern at Editora Globo (publisher)
São Paulo, Brazil

Started as an intern for 5 different magazines/teams during the course of one year and a half: Época, Época Negócios, Auto Esporte, Globo Rural and PEGN. Contributed with layout and typography skills, also developed data visualization work alongside journalists and design team. Also helped with adaptation of the magazines for digital outcomes (like iPad) and also followed up photoshoots and journalistic video recordings for special editorial content for website and social media.

Education

2013 — 2016
São Paulo, Brazil

Bachelor of Graphic Design with focus on Typography.
4 years of studies with a vast course of learning: branding, visual identities and systems, data visualization, illustration and basic principles, wayfinding, packaging, editorial (books and magazines), 3D, marketing and gaming.

Certifications

2020
Typography in Motion from Polar Studio at Platô

Motion design course focused on creating animations with typography. Learned the basics about After Effects and finished the course with a special personal and political project.

2017
Data Journalism for Data Visualization from ABRAJI

Data Journalism course focused on creation of Data Visualization. Learned about the main companies and organizations in Brazil to achieve real data, how to read them to create the truest form of visualization and also how to manage and organize numbers and informations on Excel for optimizing visual creation.

Contact

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