An Art Director, in part, because of a fictional copywriter.
I fall in love with the process, and I consume enough to develop an eye for curation and a sense of criteria.
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Titi — a self-given nickname. The Don was added by my godfather, Tony Delgado, who called me Don Titi and Señor Titi as a kid.
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process.md — Markdown
How I actually work
No "secret sauce." Just the steps.
01
Listen harder than feels necessary
Half the brief is what they didn't say. I ask the dumb question on purpose.
02
Make a lot. Throw out most.
Volume beats taste at the start. Taste shows up in the cut.
03
Write before you art-direct
If the line doesn't work on a napkin, no film treatment is going to save it.
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Sweat the details no one asked about
Kerning. The third frame. The word that almost works. Those.
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Ship. Then make the next one better.
Perfect is the enemy of out-the-door. Out-the-door teaches you things perfect can't.
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Films
The campaign films, in one place.
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Bloodtype 1795C
HSBC — D&AD New Blood 2026
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Gemini's Otium
Google — Young Ones
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Choose Your Story
Audible — Clio Student Awards
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Universal Syllabus
D&AD New Blood
about.me — About + Contact
Alejandro Elias Serulle
Art Director / Copywriter
I regard myself as a creative appreciator. I appreciate art in all its forms — so when I'm responsible for the output of anything, I'm consistent in trying to make it better the next day than it was yesterday.
I fall in love with the process. I treat every brief as a learning experience and an opportunity to employ my craft. Attention to detail is my meta — something I learned from watching people who are masters at theirs.
In practice, that looks like: art directing campaigns, writing the lines that go with them, picking up a camera when the photographer can't, editing the cut when the editor's booked, and arguing gently for the better idea in the room.
What makes me lose track of time
Work that rewards depth. Detail-oriented, story-driven, always one upgrade away. The kind of thing where the obvious version is finished on Tuesday and you spend the rest of the week making it actually good.
What I'm proudest of making
Experiences, gifts, and conversations. The yellow socks. The book. The offhand comment nobody thinks I'll remember. With a few bucks I can make someone feel seen — and that's still the trick I'm proudest of.
The brand that lit me up
Square Enix. Kingdom Hearts on a PS2 did something to me at the right age — compassion to fashion, music to art, all in one place. Most of what I've made since has been chasing that feeling.
The honest weakness
I can always do more. Read more. Train more. Write more. Create more. Do more to feel less like an imposter. I'm working on the part where doing more isn't always the answer.
Specialist now, generalist later
Go deep on one craft at a time, until I've collected enough to see the whole board. The plan is Art Director roles at craft-first agencies — places where ideas get made, not killed.
craft
Art DirectionCopywritingCreative StrategyConceptBrand & CampaignTypographyGraphic DesignVideo EditingPhotographyProduct Development
A Compendious, Comprehensive Compositor and admirer of compelling complex conversations and compositions, completely composed as a compliment to the senses.
Although competitive and keen of comparison, I consider that I complement more than I take. I hold high expectations and a deep belief in myself. I love compliments, but I can't keep my composure when receiving one.
God willing, I expect to conquer the world as a CD, one COMP at a time — opening multiple companies, giving back, and providing for the company that accompanies me.
For life is all about Compartir. (sharing)
↓ Added context — the piece in response to GUT's brand-one-word assignment
A photo of me looking thoughtfully out a window — too LinkedIn
"Award-winning" — let the work say it
An autoplay reel — nobody asked
"Passionate about brands" — say more, say less
Bloodtype 1795C
CAMPAIGN
Bloodtype 1795C
HSBC — D&AD New Blood 2026 — Art Direction, Copy, Strategy
In 2025, HSBC officially owned Pantone 1795C. We turned the hex code into a badge of inherited wealth.
For decades, Pantone 1795C has been HSBC's color of growth and ambition. In 2025 it became official property — the bank's visual identity, formally claimed as a global mark of elite status. The brief: signal that acquisition to a tier of brands and leaders who already share the DNA.
The idea
Reframe the color as a Bloodtype — not a brand mark, but a passport. Use Pantone 1795C and you're already inside The Hub.
From there it built outward: a global headhunt for matching brands, the Red Milestones collection celebrating member growth, a Brand Validation system that turns the color into a literal verification step. The campaign treats HSBC's visual identity as inheritance — something you either share or don't.
Where it started — the original whiteboard. "The Red Standard," before it became Bloodtype.Airport OOH placements. Tap any to view full size.
+85Mglobal reach
+40,000%search increase
$45Bpartner revenue
*Projected outcomes — this is a student spec campaign, figures are aspirational, not measured results.
Credits
Art Direction · Copywriting · Video Editing — Alejandro Elias Serulle
Google — Young Ones Student Awards — Art Direction, Copy, Strategy, Edit
Everyone's "watch later" is a graveyard. We turned it into a faculty.
86% of YouTube's audience uses it for learning. They hoard the good stuff in playlists meant to be revisited — and then never revisit. The Forgetting Curve takes the rest: up to 90% of what we save is gone within a week. Saved playlists aren't libraries. They're graveyards.
The idea
Link your YouTube playlist to Gemini's Otium Mode. It reads across everything you've saved and personifies it into a custom mentor — a Gem that speaks in the voice of the library you built.
A private think tank — the Junto Group — lets you query multiple Gems in parallel to synthesize across teachers. The name nods to otium: the Roman idea of leisure used for reflection and growth.
+30Mnew pro users (month 1)
+400Mearned media
*Projected outcomes — this is a student spec campaign, figures are aspirational, not measured results.
Audible: Choose Your Story
FILM
Audible: Choose Your Story
Audible — Clio Student Awards — Dirección de Arte, Copy, Estrategia, Edición
Dormir solía ser fácil. Ahora es ruidoso.
Una campaña narrativa que contrasta el sueño fácil y tranquilo de la infancia con el caos sensorial y el ruido mental abrumador de la adultez moderna. La estrategia posiciona a Audible no solo como una plataforma de contenido, sino como una herramienta de escape personal y restauración psicológica.
Al dejar que el usuario elija su historia, el film muestra cómo el audio inmersivo puede silenciar el mundo moderno y devolver una sensación de paz. La ejecución es un viaje cinematográfico y guionizado sobre recuperar el espacio mental a través de las historias.
Créditos
Dirección de Arte · Copywriting · Estrategia · Edición — Alejandro Elias Serulle
D&AD New Blood — Self-initiated — Art Direction, Copy, Strategy, Edit
Teachers shouldn't have to be designers too.
The best educators in the world are being asked to do two jobs at once: teach the subject and design the slides. Most of them aren't trained for the second one, and it shows — academic content that should be inspiring ends up looking outdated, scattered, or invisible against the noise of the digital age.
The idea
The Universal Syllabus: an open-source library of teaching materials. Affinity does the craft. Canva does the scale. The lesson stays the lesson; the design takes care of itself.
It's built as four layers — a Lab for crafting assets, a Library for distribution, a Living Syllabus for modular reuse across 180+ languages, and a Truth Layer for verification. Visual infrastructure built to free professors and democratize education.
+1Breached
+400Mearned media
+5Mpaid users (month 1)
*Projected outcomes — this is a self-initiated spec project, figures are aspirational, not measured results.
Credits
Art Direction · Copywriting · Video Editing — Alejandro Elias Serulle
Team — Saige Zervos, Saúl Birmaher, Julio Rodriguez, Matilda Madfis
Professor / Advisor — Javier Mentasti, for believing in this vision and aiding in its creation
Studio Ghibli × USPS
PRINTNO AI ✕ HAND-DRAWN
Studio Ghibli × USPS
USPS — Spec — Art Direction, Graphic Design, Concept
A stamp set for the quiet cultural footprint Ghibli left on every kid who watched.
♪ Ghibli Chill — "Princess Mononoke" (asia_orni) — plays when this window opens
A spec stamp collection honoring the films of Hayao Miyazaki — built to earn a place inside the USPS Forever canon. Not fan art, not merch, but a real philatelic series.
The idea
Render each character in watercolor, not the sharp graphic style most stamp sets default to — matching the warmth of films drawn and animated by hand.
The set is organized by emotional temperature, not by film — warm characters against orange washes, cool ones against blue and green, with a central panel for Miyazaki's signature. The watercolor bleeds past the perforations, like the world is too big to fit inside the frame.
Every character was hand-drawn or hand-traced. The one exception is the Catbus — and the set says so out loud rather than hiding it.
Why no AI
Watching how Ghibli actually makes its films made the choice obvious: a tribute to that craft can't be generated.
Parliament Typeface Specimen
EDITORIAL
Parliament Typeface Specimen
Hoefler & Co. — Miami Ad School — Art Direction, Type, Editorial
A specimen putting Parliament through its paces.
An editorial specimen exploring the design, structure, and applications of the Parliament typeface. The project surfaces the typeface's historical inspiration, formal characteristics, and versatility through editorial spreads, specimen settings, and visual analysis.
The layout emphasizes hierarchy, spacing, and composition to demonstrate how Parliament holds up across headlines, body text, and display — and where it absolutely sings.
Two details I'm proud of
The alphabet column on the specimen page is arranged to form the silhouette of a little guy. And the black column of symbols runs off one page and lands on the next — so the glyphs read as falling.
*Student project for Miami Ad School. Parliament is a typeface by Jonathan Hoefler / Hoefler&Co. — used here for an educational specimen, not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Blood, Sweat, & Tears — WAGANJI
VINYL / ALBUM ART
Blood, Sweat, & Tears
WAGANJI — Single "Lost Soul" — Cover Art & Vinyl Direction · Client Work
Collage art, finished in Adobe Photoshop.
♪ "Cause & Affect" — plays when this window opens
The cover started as a physical collage — magazine and art-book scraps cut and arranged by hand, then photographed. From that raw paper layer the face was built: a white cut-out silhouette, a stitched grin, blue tears, a bat-wing body. The finished artwork keeps the seams of the analog process visible on purpose.
On WAGANJI
Waganji represents the person who tries their best but doesn't feel they're enough. Waganji represents the kid who got lost trying to find himself.
Below: the process, from the hand-cut collage through to the pressed record. The finished cover is up top.
Hand-cut collage → pressed record. Tap any image to enlarge.
Credits
Cover Art · Collage · Art Direction — Alejandro Elias Serulle
Artist — WAGANJI
FIFA Fan Festival Miami 2026 — FWC26 Work
SOCIAL / TEMPLATE SYSTEM
FIFA Fan Festival Miami 2026
FIFA Fan Festival · Miami 2026 — Artist Story Templates & Bilingual Guide · Client Work
A self-serve story kit that lets performing artists announce themselves — on-brand, in two minutes.
Every artist playing the FIFA Fan Festival Miami 2026 needed a way to tell their fans they were part of it — without a designer in the loop for each one. Many artists, two dates, one brand to protect. So the design had to scale: a templated Instagram Story system where the artist drops in a photo, types their name in the official FWC26 typeface, swaps the date, and posts. The template does the art direction so it can't be broken.
Run one — the lineup teaser. The first template (cyan) announces that the artist is part of the festival. No date yet — just presence, in the official palm-burst frame.
Run one: the lineup-teaser template. Tap to enlarge.
Run two — the dated announce. The second template (pink) carries the show date, so artists announce their specific set. Two dated versions (June + July), built with a green placeholder frame that crops any photo to shape automatically.
Run two: blank June + July templates → a filled result. Tap any image to enlarge.
The build, in Illustrator — setting the frame, the type system, and the editable fields before the template ever reached an artist:
Building the template system in Adobe Illustrator.
In the wild
The real test: artists filling the template themselves and posting it — then picked up and reshared by the official @fwc26miami account. Different faces, different vibes, one system that held its shape outside the file.
Real artist stories, reposted by @fwc26miami. Tap any to enlarge.
Motion — One Game On Passion
Beyond the templates, I did video editing and montage on One Game On Passion content for the festival — short-form social cuts, posted by @fwc26miami and partners. Below is one of the reels.
Video editing / montage on One Game On Passion (FIFA). Posted by @fwc26miami and pleii.app.
Interview content — subtitling & pre-interviews
Separate from the design work: subtitling and pre-interviews on pieces shot at Classic Football Shirts Miami. Bilingual (EN/ES). Two stills below.
Interview stills with subtitling (EN/ES), shot at Classic Football Shirts Miami. Pre-interviews + captions by me.
Quick Guide for Artists — EN & ES
To make it foolproof, I designed a step-by-step guide in both English and Spanish — same brand system as the templates, so the whole kit feels like one thing.
The full bilingual artist guide (English + Español). Tap to read the steps.
Credits
Client — FIFA Fan Festival Miami 2026
Art Direction · Template System · Bilingual Guide — Alejandro Elias Serulle
Subtitling · Pre-Interviews (Classic Football Shirts Miami) — Alejandro Elias Serulle
Opportunity — work done thanks to a beautiful opportunity as Art Director Intern at UTAG
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EXTRAS
Loose ends & side missions
Student briefs, private client work, half-finished ideas. Not full campaigns — just pieces that earned their spot.
Negocio ModeloBook cover design — first book I designedEasy to See — Accessible CurrencySpec concept — inclusive designCafé Santo Domingo — Website RedesignSpec / personal redesign conceptPlayboy — News-cycle coversSpec editorial — art directionThe Sopranos — Title SequenceSpec — poster & animated main-title sequenceLevi's × Liquid DeathSpec campaign — Death by Denim, sustainability made tangibleARISEVideo editing — short-form for a motivational accountVirgin Voyages — "We'll handle the rest"Spec campaign — art direction & copyJif — The Peanut Butter Film FestivalSpec campaign — concept & art directionSaul Bass — Timeless Clarity in a Noisy WorldEditorial magazine — student projectLa Forja del LíderBook cover design — same authorType JourneyPersonal series — expressive typography (38 pieces)PhotographyNight football & flash portraitsTGI Fridays — Sauce CardsSpec campaign — concept, art direction & copyMiller 64 — "Less than a slice of bread"Spec campaign — concept & art directionTela — Your Closet, GamifiedApp concept — pitch deckRecreo — Play OutsideApp concept — pitch deck
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