Facu Montanaro

Facu Montanaro

Designer. in Buenos Aires, Argentina, He,him

About

Design, simplicity, and coffee.

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Projects

2024

Accelerate development with the most powerful tools designed for Unreal Engine.

2023

Josh (Founder) was looking to take Emerge Tools into a new landscape improving not only their visual style but also their way of communicating the power of all the tools they have and introducing a few new branding elements like the badges for each tool.

2023

Riya Grover (CEO) reached out to help them create a lot of new pages for Sequence website to communicate all the new cool products and features they were working on their product. We did a lot of new pages with tons of illustrations and animations.

2023

Basepub was in MVP mode. It worked okay, but it still didn't have its own style, imprint, or unique look. That's why Lior (Founder) approached me and together we completely redesigned it while creating the look and feel of their brand to be THE source of truth on the internet for all AI research information.

2023

Levon (Flexibly’s creator and founder) had a fully functional app ready to be lifted off with some UI help and UX improvements to finish the last pieces and ship it with an excellent new approach for its face in order to be more attractive, better looking, and also have great UX for its daily use.

2023

I’m honored to be able to do, once again, Scale’s main page as I did in 2021 while I was part of basement.studio design team. For this new 2023 version, we worked closer with @rickyrauch, @timthesloth, and the rest of Scale’s team to bring this new version and site direction alive.

2023

We can find different OSS projects, but few like the xyflow team. They have a really great, fun, and inclusive way of doing and thinking about things. Because of this, we had a lot of fun in the whole process of the complete redesign of the site, achieving a final result that was visually optimal and that reflected the culture of the team and its library.

2023

Thomas (Founder) reached out to us to create a new visual style for their web app while also helping them adjust some UX aspects of the product. We’ve had a lot of fun finding this new visual language for Pabolo while also making a better UX for a greater product alongside my partner Pantufla Cuántica.

2023

Amila (Founder) reached out to create Palette’s website while doing some brand updates for their visual style while also communicating and showcasing all the power and everything you can do with Palette.

2023

We worked together with Tom Parkes (Digital Art Director), Tristan L’Abbé (Head of Design), and Louis Albertini (Product Marketing Lead) in bringing the new identity for the brand in several projects to upgrade Glide Apps' positioning.

Big Tables: glideapps.com/big-tables
Data Sources: glideapps.com/data-sources

2023

Founders Johan and Nuno reached out to me to redesign their website. While the Worldup Qatar 2022 was happening and we discussed the match results in every meeting, we had a lot of fun working on the new version of their site in order to move one step closer to the evolution of their product.

2022

Mark (Firstbase CEO) reached out to update and redesign their entire webapp in order to make it scalable yet beautiful to continue the growth of Firstbase. That’s what we did with @pantuflacuantic and the Firstbase design team.

2022

Alongside Sam and Chris, Knock's Founders, we worked to level up their new app release and go public after almost a year in private-beta with a brand new website design.

2022
Xata

We worked with Xata's team to make a next-level refresh on their website in order to achieve their goals (which they did successfully and beyond).

2022

Born and made in Argentina, Lemon Cash is an exchange that helps you enter the crypto world to be able to save and pay with your wallet easily, quickly, and safely.

We worked side by side with Lemon's team to take their visual identity to a new universe of possibilities.

2022

The website needed to show everything Dynaboard can do, with the style and personality the product has. Having a lot of good energy, alongside Alex Kern (@kernio) we landed with an outstanding website and beautiful visuals for the project.

2022

We worked closely with Akash's team to create their 2022 Roadmap page to show what's Akash's future will look like.

2021

We continue iterating the beautiful Nuffsaid website to fulfill the demands of their customers and clients.

2021

We worked closely with Akash's team to create a dashboard to show the daily value of AKT cryptocurrency.

2021

We worked closely with their team for the 2021 redesign of their homepage, and continue working on the complete website redesign.

2021

Akash’s team team reached us at basement.studio to update their entire website and brand with a new look and feel to show the power of distributed peer-to-peer marketplace for cloud compute.

2021

ReadySet is a lightweight data distribution layer. Their product’s main feature is speed. So, we did a fast, beautiful brand and website in record speed.

2020

From basement.studio we did the design and development of file.video site, an experiment in decentralized video hosting powered by Livepeer and Filecoin.

2020

They reached us at basement.studio to create a stunning new website to hold all the information anyone needs about livepeer, the decentralized video streaming network built on the Ethereum blockchain.

2020

We work closely with Fredrik Björk. (founder) to create a very simple and minimal webapp that provides the best developer experience to deploy GraphQL APIs with a clean landing page as its support.

2020

From basement.studio we worked close with Chris Wake to achieve Atypical’s new website design following his beautiful brand approach.

2020

The team behind PopSQL contacted us at basement.studio for a marketing boost to make everything look clean, and better as possible on their website.

2020

From basement.studio I worked side by side with Vercel's team delivering websites, landing pages, illustrations, animations, and any design-related piece they may need or want to create.

2020

Eniac project idea was to be an all-in-one place for gamers made by gamers where you can see the entire catalog of games for each platform out there and make in-app purchases in one place.

Side Projects

Ongoing

goood.coffee is a side project with the aim of bringing people together to talk, discuss, and share a common passion: coffee. We’ve also collected and curated all the information you need about coffee if you’re new to the game.

Join us, and a lovely community to talk, learn, and enjoy one of the greatest elements Earth gave us and share your knowledge and experiences from anywhere around the world with other people in one place.

Ongoing
Clina Weather ☀️

Felt the urge to design an ultra minimal weather app so I did.

Ongoing

Brew the perfect cup at home, every time.

2023

@f0go, iOS developer from Argentina, created this page to have an easy and faster way of taking a closer look at each Argentinian cryptocurrency proof of funds information. Since it’s open-sourced, I helped with a redesign of the site to be better visually while also having some UX improvements.

2023

Make your pour over coffee. Better.

2023

Argentinians Who Design is a platform that promotes the work of Argentinian designers, aiming to inspire new designers to broaden their horizons, experienced designers to expand their networks, and companies to diversify their teams.

2022

Numbers in Japanese.

2021

We have worked together with Ale on his new design for his personal website.

Work Experience

2024 — Now

We deliver top-notch design work by collaborating with the finest talent achieving outstanding results.

2023 — 2024
Remote

I’m a self-taught freelance visual designer from Argentina focusing on crafting beautiful websites & interfaces while collaborating with early-stage startups, founders, and companies to thrive together while constantly learning and looking for new experiences to grow both as a professional and as a human being.

2022 — 2022
Remote

Sketch gives you all the tools you need for a truly collaborative design process. From early ideas to pixel-perfect artwork, playable prototypes and developer handoff.

2020 — 2022
Remote

We make cool shit that performs.

2020 — 2020
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Design & Development for Strategic Innovation - Helping companies shape the future.

2018 — 2019
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Audiovisual Designer in the Press area of the National Registry of Persons.

2017 — 2018
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Designer at the Audiovisual Office inside the Pedro Chutro documentary factory.

2017 — 2017
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 — 2015
Producer, photographer & maker at Monster Films
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Adult content producer (producer, photographer and video maker) for an internationally recognized brand of audiovisual media.

2012 — 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Videographer/character generator at "Estrellas Satelital S.A." - Local argentinian channel called "Crónica TV"