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A working logbook, 2012 – 2026
Brand systems · B2B · AI for design workflows
Currently Design Director at Keyword

Portrait of Sofía Andrade
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Design Director Mexico City soandradet@gmail.com

Selected work

Portfolio

06 loose pages

Keyword Brand system

2018 – Present
Ecuador & Mexico
Design Director

The firm's identity, rebuilt as a documented system. The brand manual lives as a website, so anyone on the team can make on-brand work without waiting on design.

Keyword brand system
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Ecuador Chocolate Project Art direction

2023 – 2024Art Director

Art direction for a new chocolate brand entering the market. We built its visual identity, an image world built with AI and retouching, and the way it speaks, so the brand launched with a look and tone of its own.

Ecuador Chocolate Project
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Twinnovate Brand book

2025
Ecuador
Freelance Brand Designer

Branding for a new business consultancy in Ecuador. The identity is built on two ideas, duality and innovation: paired elements in balance and clean, modular geometry. The brand book keeps it consistent across every touchpoint.

Twinnovate brand book
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GreenLife Lettering & identity

2017, redesigned 2025
Passion project
Brand Designer

A hand-lettered identity for a healthy food brand. I drew the logo in 2017 and redrew it in 2025, a passion project to revisit my own lettering.

GreenLife brand identity
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100 Humans Illustration

2020 – Present
Instagram
Personal project

My personal illustration project. Since 2020 I've been drawing people and sharing them on Instagram, moving between doodles, collage and flat 2D illustration.

100 Humans, hand-drawn faces
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Tesela Concept type

2026Personal project

A modular typeface concept on a 5×5 grid. Every letter is drawn with one repeated tile, and two axes, form and weight, move it from pixel to dot to bubble. The specimen is interactive, with a type tester and animated posters.

Tesela letters on coloured tiles
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About

Design leader with 12+ years building brands, visual systems and the teams behind them.

I lead design at Keyword, a public affairs and strategic communications consultancy in Ecuador and Mexico, designing for clients in trust-driven sectors. Lately most of my time goes into AI workflows that let a small team ship more, faster, without losing quality.

Based in Mexico City.

Experience

  • Design Director, Keyword2018 – PresentEcuador & Mexico
  • Freelance Art Director & Brand Designer2015 – 2024CAF, ARCONEL, PADF
  • Retained Design Consultant2015 – 2018Seguros Equinoccial, LatamAutos
  • Art Director, Mi Agencia Fernández Dávalos2012 – 2015Cervecería Nacional, KTM

Clients

  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Pluspetrol
  • CAF
  • ARCONEL
  • PADF
  • Cervecería Nacional
  • Schweppes
  • Miller
  • KTM
  • Seguros Equinoccial
  • LatamAutos

What I do