Santiago Malcolm
Santiago Malcolm
Santiago Malcolm

Hello, I'm Santi.
A graphic designer
based in Barcelona.


With a passion for creativity and visual storytelling,
I craft experiences that captivate and communicate.
From dynamic graphics to immersive video, I design work that resonates, inspires, and leaves a lasting impression.

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Branding

Creating a brand from the ground up begins with possibility: a spark shaped by purpose and potential. Before visuals or voice, there is a core idea defining why the brand exists and whom it hopes to reach. A truth asking to be recognized. This early stage uncovers meaning, aligning values with direction to form a foundation that feels honest, relatable and alive.

From that foundation, identity takes shape. Voice, tone, and visuals grow together, revealing personality and intention. Colors and forms carry emotion, while language establishes character.

Branding is the act of giving life to a new presence. The challenge is to build a system that feels authentic from the first impression and resilient as it grows, crafted with clarity, purpose, and room to evolve into what it is destined to become.

Brand Expressions

It all begins with essence, an atmosphere, a story, a pulse beneath the surface of a name. Before color or form, there is intention: what the brand longs to express and the presence it wishes to cultivate. This foundation becomes a starting point to be explored with intuition and care.

In this space, visuals are not merely designed; they are distilled. Identity is translated into a language of shape, color, and rhythm that carries emotional clarity. Typography becomes voice. Imagery becomes memory. Every decision articulates character, turning into an expression of who the brand is and what it stands for.

The challenge is to build a system that communicates with sensitivity and intention, crafting visuals that feel both grounded and inevitable, alive enough to evolve, and clear enough to be felt.

FIFA - Women's World Cup 2027™ (Host Country Announcement)

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Art Work: Santiago Malcolm, Gabriel Russo

KFC - Chick it out (DC)

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Art Work: Santiago Malcolm, Ramon Oliveira, Luis Villanova, Gabriel Russo

Collage Artwork

My collage work begins with fragments—images, textures, gestures, and scraps of visual history. Each piece carries its own past, its own weight, its own quiet insistence. When brought together, they form a whole that is never fixed, never fully resolved.

Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one always shifting because the many continue to press against it.

My collages are not solutions but conversations. They are places where pieces meet, overlap, argue, reconcile, and coexist. They celebrate the tension between cohesion and dissonance, between what is revealed and what remains unresolved. Through this process, I create works that are as composite and evolving as we are—records of complexity, curiosity, and continual becoming.

Lost & Found

'Lost & Found' is an audiovisual investigation that uses digital ‘found footage’ to explore the loss of human identity in the age of hyperstimulation. Through the recontextualization of freely accessible audiovisual material, this project/piece proposes a sensory inventory in which the organic and the industrial merge, questioning whether, in the act of consuming images, the eye finds —or loses— its capacity for true observation.

Unmute

Augmented Visuals
& Animation

AI opens a landscape where imagination expands in real time. Tools like Midjourney, DALL·E, and Stable Diffusion become collaborators, translating existing assets or ideas into images that stretch beyond what the hand alone can shape. Through prompts and iteration, ideas unfold like conversations, revealing forms that feel both unexpected and deeply resonant.

With Runway and other emerging motion tools, still images shift into movement, taking on rhythm, texture, and breath. Scenes transform, evolve, and reimagine themselves, guided by intention yet enriched by the machine’s own interpretations. This practice becomes a space of hybrid creation, where human sensibility and AI capability meet to craft visuals that are alive, exploratory, and open to discovery.

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