QWD ECN-2 5L Developing Kit, 30.5 × 23 × 10 cm, detail
QWD ECN-2 1L Developing Kit, 14 × 21.5 × 5.7 cm, detail
A modular wordmark exploring symmetry, weight, and playful ambiguity. Built on a strict geometric grid, the forms draw from stencil typography and film aesthetics to balance structural rigor with a sense of motion and experimentation.
The type system nods to old darkroom chemical kits, reinterpreted with the brutal clarity of modern DIY.  The inline cut mimics the logotype’s built-in spacing logic—suggesting
precision film splices, optical alignment marks, or a frame slipping mid-exposure. Each digit holds its own, but together they carrying over the same sense of ordered experimentation.
QWD ECN-2 1L Developing Kit inner pouches—Pre-bath, Developer, Stop, Bleach, Fixer 16.5 × 23 cm, detail
QWD ECN-2 1L Developing Kit inner pouch, Bleach, 16.5 × 23 cm, detail
QWD ECN-2 1L Developing Kit instruction card—Stop, 8.5 cm × 5.5 cm, detail
QWD ECN-2 film cassette box, 400D 5.7 × 3.8 × 3.6 cm, detail
QWD film stocks are chosen for mood, not perfection. Each one captures light differently—some bloom in shadows, others flatten the world into clean contrast. This system isn’t about matching skin tones or calibrating against a chart. It’s about trusting your instincts, knowing your tools, and letting the film speak first. Designed for the artists who overexpose on purpose and call it a look.
QWD flagship entrance, poster 91.4 x 61 cm, detail
QWD Brand manifesto, 210 x 297 mm, detail
QWD disposal bin, vinyl decal, 71 x 501 cm, detail
Ship packaging tape, detail
SEEN ONCE REMEMBERED WRONG, t-shirt, detail
Quiet We’re Dreaming, t-shirt, detail
Quiet We’re Dreaming No.2, poster, 45.7 x 61 cm, detail
Thinking Cap, hat, detail

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Quiet We’re Dreaming 2023
Quite We’re Dreaming is rooted in
the romanticization of film—not just
the image, but the entire chemical, physical, emotional process. The
visual brand draws from experimental development methods, the 90’s
London punk scene in, and a reverence for tactility without feeling nostalgic
or precious. 

Nothing here is sterile. It’s a project about loving film so much that you smear it, break it, burn it—and build something new from what’s left, with
an inherent appreciation for slowness, strangeness, and analog craft. Something that felt like it had been pulled from the print tray, still wet.

The identity balances tension: structure vs. slippage, technicality vs. gesture, boldness vs. blur.

Proudly from Philadelphia, QWD is the only ECN-2 lab in the US.

Collaborators
   Jeremy Saltry
   Emily Lee
   Henry Stockwell
   Phillip Sheldon
   Lex Wood



Westmoreland Sanctuary trail map, front, poster, 92 x 122 cm
Westmoreland Sanctuary trail map, back, poster, 92 x 122 cm, detail
Pack it up, pack it in, silk-screen poster, 61 x 91.4 cm, detail
Westmoreland Sanctuary Guide to Local Wind Patterns and Air Flow, 1, poster series, 70.7 x 100 cm, detail
Westmoreland Sanctuary Guide to Local Wind Patterns and Air Flow, “Pressure Gradient,” “Coriolis Force,” poster series,
70.7 x 100 cm, detail
Westmoreland Sanctuary Educational Program Guide 2025, 14 x 21.6 cm, detail
Leave No Trace, silk-screen poster, 61 x 91.4 cm, detail
Business card, 8.9 x 5.1 cm, detail
T-shirt, detail
T-shirt, tote bag, detail

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Westmoreland Sanctuary 2025
Westmoreland Sanctuary is not just
a preserve—it’s a place where young minds and old trees meet. The new brand system repositions the sanctuary as an educational partner and comm-unity resource, while maintaining the quiet integrity of the land itself.

Instead of presenting a fixed identity, this system is plural and adaptive—like nature itself. It invites participation and evolves as the sanctuary’s community grows.

At Westmoreland, environmental education isn’t one-size-fits-all—it flexes to meet kids, teens, families,
and adults where they are. The brand reflects this with a modular logo
system built around organic forms
and adaptable identities.

Collaborators
   Ann Paul
   Stephen Miller
   Brianna Gutierrez


Deel Bring the world to work OOH campaign, San Francisco, 2024, detail
Deel 100 OOH campaign, New York City, 2025, detail
Deel operates in 150+ countries and supports everything from HR onboarding to international tax compliance—so the design system needed to scale. I built the full secondary illustration system complete with 200+ icons to support hundreds of use cases across web, product, internal comms, and marketing. The goal: clarity, repeatability, and a visual tone to contrast the organic abstract system while still managing to carry a pulse.
Deel Red Tape OOH campaign, Toronto, 2024, detail
Deel Bring the World to Work OOH campaign,
Buenos Aires, 2024, detail
Deel Red Tape OOH campaign, New York City, 2024, detail
Deel Bring the World to Work OOH campaign, New York City, 2024, detail
Deel Red Tape OOH campaign, New York City, 2024, detail
Deel guerrilla awareness campaign, Madrid,
2024, detail

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Deel 2025
I joined Deel as the third member of the in-house creative team during a pivotal moment in its growth. What started as
a scrappy SaaS brand was rapidly evolving into a global leader—and the identity had to grow with it. 

We explored multiple brand directions, including new logos and fresh typo-graphic systems, before ultimately deciding the existing mark still held stock and recognition in the market. That decision shaped the approach: evolution over reinvention.

I helped define the brand’s voice and visual tone—balancing corporate clarity with a sense of momentum and moder-nity. Clear communication, global reach, and a design system built to scale. Deel needed to feel fast, global, and totally unmistakable from 100 feet away, and
I helped build a system to do that.

Collaborators
   Jola Aerts
   Tory Van Wey
   Tyler Bradley
   Jean-Babtiste De Marco
   Ope Aluko
   Cherihan Hassun
   Emiliana Norgaard



Silk-screen edition of 100, bristol, 61 x 91.4 cm, detail
Announcement collateral, digital
Announcement collateral, digital

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Spowiedź 2020
Promotional materials and limited-edition silkscreen posters for a film premiere. The festival was unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdown, however, so the festival was reorganized for limited digital release. 

Spowiedź (Confession) explores themes of guilt, memory, and the surreal, so I designed the poster to feel like a transmission from the subconscious. The visuals rely on heavy contrast and, distressed textures. It echoes the urgency and roughness of Polish film posters from the same era, while also channeling the expressive type of genre-defining titles like Suspiria, The Dead Zone, and Now Wait for Last Year. 

The complete identity system extends across digital posters, printed collateral, and social media promos. The result is a campaign that feels unearthed, not designed—like a recovered broadcast from a haunted archive.


Collaborators
   Blake Nelson
   Caleb Guardarrama

The title treatment is purposefully unstable: letterforms are bleached, smudged, and irregularly weighted, invoking themes of censorship, erasure, and ritual. The type is a loose homage to the experimental display faces used in European genre cinema and the golden age of pulp science fiction book covers from the late 1960’s up through the early-mid 1980’s.


About Me
Hi! I'm Miguel, a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. I’m focused on systems, surfaces, and storytelling.
I’m driven by a material curiosity and a desire to build meaning through sacred form and presence. I believe that strategy doesn’t have to look corporate, and that play doesn’t have to look messy.

I work across brand, signage, editorial, and packaging—always looking for the right tone before the right style. This book collects moments where direction aligns with material, experience, space, and function.

Less about a finished aesthetic, more about shaping the language a brand uses to speak clearly, move intuitively, and feel lived-in.

Capabilities
Art Direction, Campaigns, Copywriting, Identity & Brand Systems, Naming, Packaging, Print, Signage, Strategy, Production Design, Websites, etc. 

Contact
For more information or to see my book, reach out at hello@spencermiguel.com