Xavier Cussó

Xavier Cussó

Digital & Brand Design—Freelance in Remote, He

About

🌎 Designer and Interactive Art Director from Barcelona with 16+ years of global experience in the digital design industry.

🏆 I design and lead teams to deliver unique innovative websites, brand identities, digital products, e-commerce, and immersive experiences for companies, agencies, and startups worldwide.

Capabilities ↲
● Digital Design (UX/UI)
● Visual Design / Brand Design
● Product Design / Design Systems
● Interactive Art Direction
● Team leadership
● Motion Design / Prototyping
● Pitching / Presentation Design
● Immersive Experiences
● E-commerce
● Tech Direction / Development (outsourced)

🤝 Selected Clients / Agencies / Awards ↲
ADIDAS, GOOGLE, RESN, UNITED NATIONS, AUDI, COCA-COLA, O'NEILL, B-REEL, PRIMAVERA SOUND, TYPEFORM, COMME DES GARÇONS, RIOT GAMES, BUFF, DENTSU, DIGITAS, ABL SPACE SYSTEMS, MOMENTUS, AWWWARDS x13, FWA x6, WEBBY winner, etc.

💪🏽 Part of the Awwwards Jury since 2016.

🩸 INKOLLECTORS® Founder.

📩 Want to work together?—hola@xaviercusso.com

Projects

Ongoing
Ongoing
BRAND DESIGN

Bits & bobs of my brand design practice. From simple identities to dynamic brand systems, most of the times animated and thought to work across a sample of applications, for both print & digital.

2023

Motion is key in any interactive production to improve the user experience and I often animate UI in After Effects to put concepts across to the client or as a reference to guide front-end developers.

Over the course of 2 years, I did layout & motion explorations that helped steer the conversation with the Google team while pushing their thinking on what was possible.

Agency: Use All Five
Creative Director: Kate Fabrizio

2022
AMBIA website

Ambia is a brand new solar company providing renewable energy solutions in the United States.

I was asked to design their first website iteration consisting of a homepage and about pages while the company finished finessing its brand voice and visual language. I took care of the art direction, UX/UI, and put together a small team including a 3D designer and a developer.

My website highlight was crafting a 3D homepage animation where we broke down the company's solar process using a 60fps WebP sequence to ensure a smooth scrolling experience and optimal performance.

Brand design: MF9 Studio
3D: Tim Überall
Development: Christian MacMillan

2021

Stanley Tate is a leading Student Loan lawyer in the U.S. who came highly recommended by an existing client: Typeform/Videoask.

I developed and consistently established a new visual language through his new website and other offline/online communication channels/tools, and I put together a small team including an illustrator and a developer.

Tate is a happy client whom we helped his business thrive.

Development: Christian MacMillan
Illustrations: Kezia Gabriella

2021
CLIENT IN THE U.S. NEW SPACE INDUSTRY at (UNDER NDA)

Website for the world's first space infrastructure company including a booking tool to send satellites to space.

2021

BUFF® is a leading brand of accessories for sports and lifestyle that hired my studio to design their brand new global e-commerce and design system. A site that needed to work in several markets while being conversion-driven, mobile-first, intuitive, compelling, and bearing in mind accessibility + optimal SEO practices.

Development: Scandiweb & Christian MacMillan.

2020
ABL SPACE SYSTEMS website at ABL Space Systems

In the last few years, I've been working on a couple of projects for the U.S. New Space industry like the website we did for ABL Space Systems, a Rocket Launch Company that uses proven manufacturing methods and dead simple technology to make extremely reliable and affordable rockets.

The client's goal was to create a modern, clean, and enigmatic visual language that conveyed ABL’s unique approach to manufacturing: Revolutionary Simplicity.

Especially happy with the RS1 rocket webGL creativity revealing its features and highlighting its deployability.

Agency: Cosma Schema
Creative Director: Andrew Sloan
Developers: Francesco Michelini, Fabio Carretti

2019

Adidas Brand Design hired me to help them further explore and establish a visual language and user interaction principles within the context of a future adidas.com style refresh.

Once the interaction principles were defined, I visually translated them into key pages (Homepage, Product Listing Page, Product Detail Page) for both desktop and mobile and animated the designs to better communicate my proposal and discuss page transitions, scroll animations, and micro-interactions.

In collaboration with the team at Adidas, I came up with bold creative visual solutions that would make the product discovery more appealing while improving the site's user experience and conversion.

Side Projects

2023

Professional Tattoo Art for Your Virtual Self 🩸🩸🩸

INKOLLECTORS is a web3 brand empowering the fast-growing tattoo industry with a brand-new business model.

As an early-stage startup founder, I'm wearing a few hats leading the project on the executive and creative sides.

Currently developing our Beta marketplace.

2019

Branding & Web Design class showing how I approach a professional assignment.

Speaking

2023
NFTs, Metaverse & Digital Identity at Devcentralized
Barcelona

Awards

2023
*The awards and features below are a selection and not ordered chronologically
2023
Webby Winner
2023
2x Webby Honoree
2023
Lovie Winner
2020
Teacher to Watch from Skillshare
2018
5x Awwwards SOTD
2018
6x FWA SOTD
2018
9x Awwwards HM
2017
Awwwards Mobile Excellence
2016
Best of Behance
2015
DIA Nominee (e-commerce) from Dutch Interactive Awards

Features

2023
3x Communication Arts Magazine

Webpicks

2023
Sandu Publishing
2023
Awwwards Magazine
2023
Rolling Stone Magazine
2023
Muzli
2023
Creative Bloq
2023
Ads of the World
2022
Stefan Sagmeister Instagram
2022
Codrops

Work Experience

2017 — Now
worlwide

Independent / Freelance.

• IF YOU'RE A COMPANY OR STARTUP, I will team up with my highly experienced creative and development associates to overview and deliver bespoke full-service web productions.

• IF YOU'RE AN AGENCY, I will join your team as a freelance Senior Designer / Interactive Art Director.

2015 — 2018
Senior Art Director & Lead Digital Designer at Vasava
Barcelona
2013 — 2014
Interactive Designer & Art Director at Resn
Amsterdam
2011 — 2013
Visual Designer at Digitas LBi
Amsterdam
2011 — 2012
Interactive Designer & Art Director at Dentsu (Isobar)
Amsterdam
2010 — 2010
Digital Creative & Visual Designer at Great Works
Tokyo
2010 — 2010
Interactive Art Director at B-Reel
Stockholm & London

internship + freelance

Education

2009 — 2010
Interactive Art Direction at Hyper Island
Stockholm
2004 — 2008
Superior Graduate in Design at Elisava
Barcelona

Certifications

2023
International Design Jury from AWWWARDS

Part of the most prestigious website awards jury since 2016.

2010
UGL (Understanding Group Leadership) from Swedish Armed Forces

Contact

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