Branding Consultant
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1992
Parsons School of Design: 1998
Communications Design
Carlos is a creative director and designer specializing in branding for retail, fashion, and lifestyle brands. He worked for more than a decade at Concrete Brand Imaging Group, where he became vice president of design, having developed design strategies, identities, branding programs, promotional materials, packaging, and web designs. His clients there included Ann Taylor Loft, Burberry, Bloomingdale’s, Gerber, HBO, Kohl’s, Lacoste, Martha Stewart, MasterCard, Michael Kors, Rachael Ray, St. Martin’s Press, and the Tory Burch Foundation.
Carlos’s work has been recognized by The Type Directors Club, Graphics, Parsons School of Design, UNESCO and GDUSA magazine.
Art Director, Living
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1992
Parsons School of Design: 1994
Communications Design
Aimee is art director at Living magazine and was associate creative manager at Toys“R”Us. During her more than 20 years’ experience in the editorial field she was associate art director for Hearst Corporation’s Sports Afield magazine, Teledotcom, and the business-to-business communications Company UBM. She also served as creative director for Power & Motoryacht magazine.
Fashion Graphic Designer, Fine Artist
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1989
Parsons School of Design: 1991
Communications Design
Iliana has worked as a fashion graphic designer for such brands as Guess, Coca-Cola, Gap, Inc., Rocawear, Coogi, and Calvin Klein. She also has a career in fine arts, working in large-format drawings on canvas and paper, escalating installations, printmaking, and digital photos on canvas. She is a founding member of the printmaking collective Dominican York Proyecto Gráfica.
Iliana’s work has been included in many publications, catalogues, and exhibitions, including those of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; El Museo del Barrio, Barnard College, and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, New York City; Joan Guaita, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; the Museo de Arte de El Salvador; and the 3rd Triennial Poli/Gráfica San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has exhibited in various galleries in New York City, New Jersey, and Belgium, among other venues. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and El Museo del Barrio.
Creative Director, Photography, Macys.com
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1989
Parsons School of Design: 1991
Communications Design
Angélica began her career as a designer for Condé Nast’s House and Garden magazine and later became an art director at Revlon. Since 1999 she has focused on photography, working first as photo art director for Victoria’s Secret and later as senior art director and then managing art director of fashion photography for Macy’s.com.
Founder, Designer, Edna Acosta Multidisciplinary Design Jewelry Designer
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1988
Parsons School of Design: 1990
Communications Design
After graduation, Edna opened Lagartija, her communication design studio in Puerto Rico, and later founded Edna Acosta Multidisciplinary Design. She has established herself in corporate identity, editorial, and cultural and museum-exhibit design. Additionally, her work as a jewelry designer has garnered her the 2010 Ibero-American Design Biennial Best in Show award.
Graphic Design Director, Sviñas art + design
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1987
Parsons School of Design: 1990
Communications Design
Sarah specializes in visual storytelling, branding, creative development, and graphic design across multiple platforms. At Conde Nast she held senior design roles for Glamour (including Glam Belleza Latina), GQ, CN Portfolio, and numerous special issues. She also design-directed the migration of Glamour’s print magazine to the iPad app. For Variety she helped to develop a prototype template for special issues on the Emmys and to design some of those issues. She has also designed catalogues for beauty, fashion, and home products for Bloomingdale's, Woman Within, and Roaman’s. As design director for VSA Partners’ New York office Sarah worked with such clients as Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm, American Express, and United Technologies.
Sarah’s work has earned awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors, The Society of Publication Designers, and The Type Director’s Club, among others.
Founding Partner, Designer, Agenda
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1986
Parsons School of Design: 1988
Communications Design
Victor is a founding partner of Agenda, a New York branding, communication, and design company with a wide-ranging client list that includes Abbott Laboratories, Chrysler, Guardian, MasterCard, Nike, Oneworld, Pfizer, Samsung, Time Warner Cable, Turner Construction, and Univision. In March 2018, AgencySpotter.com named Agenda the number two agency amongst the “Top Agencies of 2018.”
Principal, Creative Director, Package Designer, Branding Consultant, Muts&Joy Founder, Creative Director, Designer, Sangiovanni Design
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1985
Parsons School of Design: 1987
Communications Design
Gisele is principal and executive creative director of Muts&Joy& Design & Identity Consultants and founder, creative director, and executive senior designer at Sangiovanni Design. She has been responsible for key corporate and brand identity programs for such clients such as Boston Beer Company/Samuel Adams, Eastman Kodak Company, FAO Schwarz, Adidas USA, Hill’s Pet Nutrition/Science Diet/Prescription Diet, and Johnson & Johnson. She specializes in packaging for the food industry and corporate identity for Fortune 100 brands, including Colgate, Kraft, Operation Desert Storm, and the United States Postal Olympic System. A member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Gisele has received the American Corporate Identity Award of Excellence, the International Corporate Identity Award, the Clio Award, and has been recognized by the Art Direction Creativity Awards Shows, The Big Book of Logos, and the journal Social Education.
Co-Founder/Director, Miami Ad School Punta Cana, D.R.
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1985
Parsons School of Design: 1987
Communications Design
José Guillermo has served as design director of Interior Design magazine, senior art director at Ogilvy/Miami, and director and president of the Scholarships Foundation of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Miami. His clients have included Kodak, Amex, BP/Castrol, Swisher International, and Disney. He was selected Advertising Person of the Year in 2004, and in 2007 received the AAF Silver Medal Award. He founded the Miami Ad School, a center of innovation and creativity for Central America and the Caribbean.
Illustrator, Graphic Designer, Art Director
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 2012
Parsons School of Design: 2014
Fine Arts
Luisito has worked in New York as an illustrator and graphic designer at Mayday and a freelance art director at H4B Chelsea, and as a copywriter and graphic designer at Young & Rubicam DR. His work has been exhibited in New York and the Dominican Republic and published in The New York Times, the Not For Tourists guidebook, and various magazines. In 2017 he co-founded L2 Studio, which focuses on brand development and content creation for such local and international brands as Bayer, Domino’s, Turo, Body Ignition, and Chez Space.
Fine Artist
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 2011
Parsons School of Design: 2013
Fine Arts & Illustration
Joiri is a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Artist and a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellow. Her work navigates binaries in search of in-betweenness, investigating the female body within constructions of identity, multicultural social spaces, and hierarchies. Her recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of black and brown womanhood in relation to an imagined tropical identity.
Joiri has participated in many residencies, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, BronxArtSpace, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program, the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program, Transmedia Lab at MA Scène Nationale, and Red Bull Arts Detroit. She has received grants from the Nancy Graves Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. In the Dominican Republic she has won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, the Grand Prize of the XXVII Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno in the Dominican Republic and the Exhibition Prize at the Centro de la Imagen. She has exhibited across the Caribbean and the U.S.
Fine Artist, Illustrator
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 2010
Parsons School of Design: 2012
Fine Arts & Illustration
Fashion Institute of Technology: 2016
MFA, Illustration
Through painting, drawing, or sculpture, Mildor creates scenes that explore human experiences, desires, and dreams. His aim is to situate the individual in a global consciousness, regardless of ethnic and social background. As a Caribbean person influenced by Haitian culture but now exposed to many cultures, he aims to explore artmaking beyond an insular framework.
Mildor has achieved international recognition, participating in solo and group exhibitions, juried biennials, and art fairs in important galleries from Haiti to Quebec, New York to Shanghai, Paris to Santo Domingo. His work is in private collections in the Dominican Republic, the U.S., China, and other countries.
