Leonardo Forgerini
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Dublin, Ireland
Toptal member since August 2, 2022
Leonardo is a brand designer with 10+ years of experience creating visual identities, websites, and presentations for startups and global teams. He helps businesses communicate with clarity through thoughtful branding, digital experiences, and visual storytelling.
Portfolio
Pitch Deck Design and Visual Storytelling
Icons for IBM Collaboration Solutions
Poster for IBM
Work Experience
Brand & Graphic Designer
Toptal
- Built a brand identity guide for First Fridays for Startups, Ireland's largest monthly startup ecosystem event.
- Designed a dozen presentation decks for the Electricity Supply Board's (ESB) X_Potential program, created illustrations, selected photographs, and designed mockups to illustrate the concepts.
- Created the 2022 year-end report for Sense about Science. Redesigned the graphics and tables to look cohesive with the brand identity.
Brand Designer for IoT Platform
Amniscient LLC
- Established and led the company's design function, owning branding, product, marketing, and web design from concept to execution.
- Created the original visual identity and led a strategic rebrand ahead of the product launch and first client acquisition, developing the logo, color system, typography, and brand guidelines.
- Designed the first UX/UI iteration of the company's flagship platform, translating complex AI workflows into an intuitive, launch-ready interface.
- Produced a broad range of visual communication assets, including investor pitch decks, sales presentations, exhibition graphics, motion graphics, and marketing campaigns.
- Designed the company's exhibition booth, contributing to one of the event's strongest sources of new business leads.
- Partnered closely with leadership, engineering, and sales teams, providing strategic design support for client presentations, product launches, and business development.
Visual Designer
IBM
- Crafted stories and illustrations to create engaging presentations for multimillionaire executive deals.
- Created 60+ pages of usability flow for an application builder IBM LiveGrid, adding several new components to the IBM collaboration solutions (ICS) design system.
- Developed 130+ unique icons for ICS that were used across various formats and media.
Motion and Multimedia Designer
FUDGE Creative
- Designed a panel for the University College Dublin (UCD) with the university history timeline exhibited on the main campus.
- Created a roll-up and a digital banner for the Allied Irish Banks (AIB), displayed in the bank concept branch called The Lab.
- Designed an illustrated map for Electricity Supply Board's (ESB) tablet app, displaying the service locations with their respective energy sources.
Art Director
Íonz
- Designed UI/UX for the current largest Brazilian company in the coffee sector for the coffee machines and individual coffee capsules.
- Developed the launching campaign for a new coffee capsule machine.
- Produced digital mockups for over 20 different coffee capsule flavors.
Designer
Estúdio Quarks
- Created a booklet and a folder of support material for Walmart Brazil's distribution to participants of the academies to train their employees.
- Designed UI for a transportation and logistics container handling company, including interactive illustrations.
- Assisted in creating a digital magazine (as a downloadable app) for the most significant Brazilian cosmetics company by revenue.
Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Visual Design
Mackenzie Presbyterian University - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Diploma in Graphic Design
ETEC Carlos de Campos - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Certifications
IBM Agile Explorer
IBM
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
Enterprise Design Thinking Co-creator
IBM
Skills
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Adobe InDesign, InVision, Ableton Live, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Adobe After Effects, Google Slides, Timely, Adobe CC, InDesign CC, After Effects CC, Adobe
Platforms
Web, Figma, Webflow
Industry Expertise
Advertising
Other
Presentations, Visual Design, Social Media Design, Brand Guidelines, Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Video Editing, Design Thinking, Branding, UI Design, User Interface (UI), Web Design, Brand Design, Event Design, Prototyping, Social Networks, Music Videos, Music Production, Research, User Experience (UX), Ideation Workshops, Workshops, Agile, Design, Multimedia, Theory Design, Art History, Art, Guidelines, Style Kits, Logo Design, Iconography, Icon Sets, Material UI, Posters, Screen Printing, Illustration, Presentation Design, Data, Graphics, Visual Storytelling, Pitch Decks, Printing, Print, Layout, Social Hubs, Typography, Color Schemes, Human-centered Design (HCD), Font Design, Lettering, Stamps, T-shirt Design, Culture, Dancer, Social Media, Videos, Animation, Web Technologies, Design Systems, GRID, Templates, PowerPoint Design, Scripting, Pitch Preparation, Sales Pitches, Tender, Web Presentation, Eco, Slideshows, Infographs, Corporate Branding, Corporate Videos, Hand Drawing, Postcard Design, AI Design, Algorithm Visualization, Concept Art, Concepting, Web App Design, Wireframing, User Interviews, Art Direction, Advertising Design, Web App UI, Finance, Internet of Things (IoT), Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Logotype, Banner Ads, Brand Identity, Visual Identity, Startups, Pitch Deck Design, Information Design, Layout Design, Editorial Design, Publication Design, Print Design
Experience
- Adobe Photoshop - 17 years
- Video Editing - 12 years
- Presentations - 12 years
- Adobe Creative Suite - 12 years
- Adobe Illustrator - 12 years
- Graphic Design - 12 years
- Branding - 10 years
- Design Thinking - 5 years
Tools
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Creative Suite
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