Profile: Cristiano Fernandes

About Cristiano Fernandes : Cristiano Fernandes is an Industrial Design undergraduate with a specialization in Creativity. Designer, entrepreneur, he currently dedicates to his passion of coaching and mentoring designers. As a designer, he has over 20 years of experience, 15 of them as a creative entrepreneur. Founding partner of a communication agency that employed 180 collaborators of which 40 were designers. After selling this company to a multinational group, Cristiano created a design studio, helping the formation of dozens of professionals in the field, many of them who are working with international companies. During this period, he's had the opportunity to be working with big brands from all over the world. Today Cristiano showcases a portfolio of over one thousand digital interface projects, digital products, and visual identity. He has worked with clients such as Bradesco, GM/Chevrolet, Natura, Nestlé, Sadia, Vale, Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Toyota, and many others. Cristiano believes that designers change the world for the better, identifying challenges and creating solutions so we can all have a much lighter, intuitive world. With all this experience and coaching education, he helps designers who feel unfulfilled in their jobs so they can grow financially by making change happen in a planned way. His coaching program for designers is called Turn On and is available on his website.