I'm Ricardo Angulo — Head of Design and Creative Director based in Barcelona.

For over 12 years, I’ve worked across brand identity, creative direction, and design leadership, helping companies turn fragmented visual execution into clearer brand direction, stronger systems, and higher-quality creative output.
Today, I lead the design function at Academy of Digital Industries, supporting brand execution across 4 international markets and the XPUP rollout across selected markets. My work sits between creative vision and operational clarity — building the standards, feedback loops, and design systems teams need to deliver with consistency and impact. Before ADI, I built experience across independent studio work, global agency accounts, startups, SMEs, and international remote teams.
Creative leadership that makes quality repeatable.
Direction before decoration
I help teams understand what good looks like before production starts, so execution becomes faster and more consistent.
Systems that leave room for judgment
Brand systems should create shared standards without flattening the work into templates that cannot adapt.
Feedback as an operating rhythm
Creative quality improves when critique, prioritization and stakeholder alignment are built into the workflow.
Academy of Digital Industries / XPUP
Head of Design
Designerds / Amazon Blink
Senior Designer
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Founder & Creative Director
Superside
Senior Graphic Designer
Combarranquilla
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Aepiphanni Business Consulting
Senior Visual Designer, UI/UX
Dolmen
Senior Graphic Designer
Universidad del Norte
Graphic Designer
Fab City
Visual Designer
- Creative Direction
- Brand Transformation
- Campaign Direction
- Brand Quality
- Visual Identity
- Multi-Market Rollout
- Brand Systems
- Digital Design
- Team Leadership
- Mentorship
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Design Operations
- Creative Reviews
- Workflow Improvement
- Brand Governance
- Creative Testing
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Monday.com
- Tilda
- AI-Assisted Creative Workflows
- Global–Local Brand Adaptation
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Midjourney
- Magnific AI
- Miro
- English (C2)
- Spanish (Native)
- Catalan (A2)