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Giacomo U.

Brand Identity Designer | Branding Expert | Brand Guide & Packaging

🔥 EXPERT-VETTED (TOP 1% UPWORK TALENT) Brand Identity Designer • Brand Strategist • Creative Director 25+ Years Experience | 180+ Projects | Fortune 500 Clients I help companies build distinctive brands that inspire trust, increase perceived value, and create long-term business growth. Every identity is crafted personally by me through strategy, research, and original creative thinking — 100% human-crafted — never generated by AI As an Expert-Vetted Brand Identity Designer and Creative Director, I've spent more than 25 years helping startups, scale-ups, and established companies transform ideas into clear, strategic, and memorable brands. My experience includes global companies such as Unilever, Audi, Marriott, Hilton, and Shiseido, along with ambitious startups and growing businesses across the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia. My approach combines brand strategy, brand identity design, logo design, visual identity systems, packaging design, and brand guidelines to create brands that are not only beautiful, but also practical, scalable, and consistent across every touchpoint. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SERVICES Brand Identity Design - Brand Strategy • Brand Identity Design • Logo Design • Brand Positioning • Brand Strategy • Visual Identity Systems • Corporate Identity • Rebranding • Brand Refresh Brand Assets • Brand Guidelines • Packaging Design • Marketing Materials • Print Design • Presentation Design • Digital Brand Assets ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MY PROCESS Every successful brand starts with clarity. I begin by understanding your business, market, audience, and competitive landscape. From there, I develop a strategic foundation that guides every creative decision. The result is a cohesive brand identity that communicates clearly, builds credibility, and remains consistent across websites, packaging, social media, presentations, advertising, and every customer touchpoint. My goal isn't simply to design a logo. It's to create a complete brand system that helps your business grow with confidence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY CLIENTS HIRE ME ✓ Expert-Vetted — Top 1% of Upwork Talent ✓ 25+ years of professional experience ✓ 180+ successful branding projects ✓ Fortune 500 experience ✓ Strategic thinking combined with high-level design execution ✓ Clear communication and structured workflow ✓ Reliable partner from strategy through final delivery ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SPECIALIZATIONS • Brand Identity Design • Logo Design • Brand Strategy • Branding • Visual Identity • Corporate Identity • Rebranding • Packaging Design • Brand Guidelines • Creative Direction • Art Direction • Marketing Collateral • Print Design • Adobe Illustrator ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you're looking for a strategic partner to build a premium, distinctive, and memorable brand—not just another logo—I'd be happy to discuss your project. Let's build a brand that people recognize, trust, and remember.

🇮🇹Olbia, Italy$130/hr100% JSS4.95 (136)Since May 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.4k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#18,003 / 412k
🇮🇹Country#83 / 3,095
Revenue, last 30 days
$45

Last 6 months: $14k

World#99,488 / 412k
🇮🇹Country#613 / 3,095
Total earnings
$392k

Billed in all: $393k

World#4,636 / 412k
🇮🇹Country#21 / 3,095
Per project
$2.1k

$2.8k in the last 6 months

World#73,505 / 412k
🇮🇹Country#354 / 3,095
Projects, last 6 months
5
80% fixed20% hourly
World#41,747 / 412k
🇮🇹Country#284 / 3,095
Projects in all
184

Across 186 contracts

80% fixed20% hourly
World#11,410 / 412k
🇮🇹Country#82 / 3,095

Earnings, last 30 days

$393k+$45 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$393,125$393,150$393,175Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 3% in Logo Design

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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  5. #50Visual Identity815 freelancers · 🇮🇹 #1Top 6%
  6. #63Mockup1,593 freelancers · 🇮🇹 #1Top 4%
  7. #92Art Direction1,623 freelancers · 🇮🇹 #4Top 6%
  8. #95Brand Guidelines2,070 freelancers · 🇮🇹 #2Top 5%