Alicia Castro

Branding / Packaging / Digital

Adam and Joe fan

Spicy food lover

About

About

About

HELLO THERE

HELLO THERE

HELLO THERE

Alicia Castro

Branding / Packaging / Digital

Adam and Joe fan

Spicy food lover

About

I love tiny things, curiosities, cinema, languages, history and mycology among other things…


Previously at Henkel,

currently at Total Design.

Based in Amsterdam.

I love tiny things, curiosities, cinema, languages, history and mycology among other things…


Previously at Henkel,

currently at Total Design.

Based in Amsterdam.

I love tiny things, curiosities, cinema, languages, history and mycology among other things…


Previously at Henkel,

currently at Total Design.

Based in Amsterdam.

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Nationale Opera & Balet

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

Strategy: Trudelies van der Poel

Designer: Adam Lane, Alicia Castro, Edwin van Praet, Martyna Piskorz, Timon Weerstand

Motion Designer: Kassahun Villa, Dennis Roverts

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The National Opera & Ballet of Amsterdam, located in the heart of the city tasked us with developing a new visual identity and strategy that would bring all the different sub-brands under one family.

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Nationale Opera & Balet

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

Strategy: Trudelies van der Poel

Designer: Adam Lane, Alicia Castro, Edwin van Praet, Martyna Piskorz, Timon Weerstand

Motion Designer: Kassahun Villa, Dennis Roverts

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The National Opera & Ballet of Amsterdam, located in the heart of the city tasked us with developing a new visual identity and strategy that would bring all the different sub-brands under one family.

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Amsterdam Light Festival

Main designer: Alicia Castro, Martyna Piskorz

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

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Yearly held light art festival in Amsterdam. Brief: Imagine Beyond We devised a toolbox for them based on simple shapes, colours and gradients that can be combined in a myriad of ways.

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Amsterdam Light Festival

Main designer: Alicia Castro, Martyna Piskorz

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

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Yearly held light art festival in Amsterdam. Brief: Imagine Beyond We devised a toolbox for them based on simple shapes, colours and gradients that can be combined in a myriad of ways.

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Limburgs Museum

Main designers: Adam Lane, Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

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Museum in the south of the Netherlands. The logo’s inspiration comes from both Limburg’s hilly landscape and the graceful swirl of the Meuse River.

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Limburgs Museum

Main designers: Adam Lane, Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

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Museum in the south of the Netherlands. The logo’s inspiration comes from both Limburg’s hilly landscape and the graceful swirl of the Meuse River.

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El naranjo del claustro

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Alicia Castro

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Artisanal confections crafted by nuns in convents. These sweets hold a significant place in our culinary heritage and have remained unchanged for centuries. This is an experiment on modernising them.

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El naranjo del claustro

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Alicia Castro

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Artisanal confections crafted by nuns in convents. These sweets hold a significant place in our culinary heritage and have remained unchanged for centuries. This is an experiment on modernising them.

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Intolerant

Main designers: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Rogier Bisschop

Imaginary: Stock by Pexels

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Intoleran is an international provider of food supplements for intolerances. In designing the packaging, the primary goal was to break away from the conven- tional.

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Intolerant

Main designers: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Rogier Bisschop

Imaginary: Stock by Pexels

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Intoleran is an international provider of food supplements for intolerances. In designing the packaging, the primary goal was to break away from the conven- tional.

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Rijk Zwaan

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

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Concept design for Dutch breeding company Rijk Zwaan. The aim was to showcase the brand in a caring way. Brief: showcase all the care that goes into their seeds.

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Rijk Zwaan

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Edwin van Praet

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Concept design for Dutch breeding company Rijk Zwaan. The aim was to showcase the brand in a caring way. Brief: showcase all the care that goes into their seeds.

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Aegon

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Eddy Wegman

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Dutch insurance company that specialises in pensions and asset management. We designed a simple, vibrant, and, above all, flexible visual identity based in joy rather than fear; age is only a number, you can retire at 30 or travel the world at 80.

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Aegon

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Eddy Wegman

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Dutch insurance company that specialises in pensions and asset management. We designed a simple, vibrant, and, above all, flexible visual identity based in joy rather than fear; age is only a number, you can retire at 30 or travel the world at 80.

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Yuma

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Eddy Wegman

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Group of creatives, developers, engineers, and IT architects that seeks to connect digital transformation with human nature. This identity revolves around everlasting transformation, the logo was designed to be mutable, alive, almost like a creature.

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Yuma

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Eddy Wegman

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Group of creatives, developers, engineers, and IT architects that seeks to connect digital transformation with human nature. This identity revolves around everlasting transformation, the logo was designed to be mutable, alive, almost like a creature.

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Booming Jobs

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Eddy Wegman

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Online career platform, aimed to establish an engaging visual identity that exuded boldness and punchiness. Custom font based on the open-source Bebas font.

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Booming Jobs

Main designer: Alicia Castro

Creative Director: Eddy Wegman

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Online career platform, aimed to establish an engaging visual identity that exuded boldness and punchiness. Custom font based on the open-source Bebas font.

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alicia.dafny.penalva@gmail.com