DESIGNER ARMANDA

A decade shaping brands — now doing it with AI by my side.

I've spent the last 10+ years helping brands find their voice — through visual identity, digital campaigns and, more recently, AI. I write the design context AI works inside, direct the output it produces, and still believe the best work feels human, no matter what tool made it.

Since
2015
Disciplines
04
Visual Language
01
Mode
AI-Augmented
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PRACTICE / 01

Four disciplines.
One system.

Brand craft and performance data feed the AI layer; the AI layer feeds craft and performance back. Nothing here is a side project — each area compounds the others.

IDENTITY — OFFLINE / PRINT
01

Brand & Identity

Visual identity systems built to hold up across every surface — from packaging and editorial to brand guidelines. A decade of giving brands a voice that's unmistakably theirs.

  • Identity
  • Branding
  • Editorial
  • Print
DIGITAL — PERFORMANCE CAMPAIGNS
02

Digital & Performance Campaigns

Design built to perform — social content, campaign assets and digital experiences engineered for engagement, conversion and measurable results.

  • Digital Design
  • Social
  • Performance
  • Campaigns
AI — CONTEXT & CRITIQUE
03

Design Context for AI

No weights changed, no private model — 38 books distilled by hand into rules a model can act on, so work made at volume comes out as ten ideas instead of one and still answers to grid and hierarchy.

  • Context Engineering
  • Art Direction
  • Design Critique
See the method →
AI — CONTENT & UGC VIDEO
04

AI Content & UGC Video

AI-generated UGC-style video and content — scalable, on-brand creative that feels native to the platform, without the production overhead.

  • AI Video
  • UGC
  • Content Generation

ARCHIVE / 02

Case files, not
a highlight reel.

Offline work, performance campaigns and AI-native output, filed the way a working studio actually keeps its records — brief, execution, result.

CASE FILE — 01 Delivered

INFORM Portugal — Launch Event Identity

Brand & Identity
Brief
A scalable event identity for INFORM's expansion into Portugal — built to feel corporate and engaging for leadership, partners and press.
Execution
Event space visuals, invitations, paid media, presentation decks and an opening video — the brand pushed further than the guidelines allowed.
Result
A physical brand experience that felt alive — consistent across every touchpoint, from staircase signage to opening screens.
View case study →
CASE FILE — 02 Delivered

OxxyO3 — Digital Brand System

Digital & Performance
Brief
Oxxy O3 had a visual identity but no cohesive digital presence — a modular system was needed to support multiple product lines and constant content output.
Execution
A digital brand system built on color-coded categories, grid layouts and typographic hierarchy — applied across social, web and product communication.
Result
A recognizable, scalable brand presence that made content production easier while keeping every product line visually distinct.
View case study →
AI FILE — 003 PILOT

Home Services Brand — AI-Generated UGC Pilot

AI Content & UGC Video
Brief
A home-services brand that runs on a constant supply of UGC, and an agency that had decided to become AI-first. This is where the two met.
Execution
Brief and storyboard first, then a controlled prompt-to-image-to-video pipeline built to hold one avatar and one apartment across every shot.
Result
A finished 22-second vertical ad with no camera, no cast and no location. Metrics below.
  • 10h → 2hProduction time, first run to today
  • 22sFinished vertical ad
  • 30 → 7Stills generated, shots in the final cut
  • 0Cameras, cast and locations
View case study →

CONTEXT / 03

Taught,
not trained.

Four working references, written by hand. I chose the books, read them, and pulled each one apart into rules a model can act on — then corrected the output round after round until the answers held. Where two authors contradict each other, the file says which one wins and why. That judgement is mine, and it is where the hours went.

What did not happen is fine-tuning. No weights were changed and there is no private model here — the model is the same one you have. What is different is what it knows at the moment a decision gets made: the difference between a model that answers “I’d avoid that brown” and one that answers “brown and grey to signal premium returns petit-bourgeois, old-fashioned and ugly — Heller, two thousand respondents. If we want premium, that is the cost.”

The second sentence is the work. See how it holds up →

REFERENCE 001

Design fundamentals

Built on
22 books · 22 reference sheets
Function
Type, colour, grid, contrast, accessibility. Wins any conflict about measurement.
Status
In use
REFERENCE 002

Ad copy

Built on
6 books · 8 reference sheets
Function
The claim, the diagnosis, the headline, the body. Wins any conflict about what the piece says.
Status
In use
REFERENCE 003

Photography

Built on
10 books · 10 reference sheets
Function
Framing, light, pose, narrative.
Status
In use
REFERENCE 004

Illustration

Built on
13 reference sheets, by subject
Function
Craft of drawing, gesture, style lexicon.
Status
In use

38 books · 53 reference sheets · ~344,000 words. The illustration layer is organised by subject rather than one sheet per book, so its sheets are in the 53 and not in the 38 — the awkward number rather than the round one.