MARÍA
ALEXANDRA
SALAMANQUÉS
María Alexandra joined Space Doctors in 2005 as Design Planner, on completion of her MA degree in Design & Branding Strategy from Brunel. María Alexandra is now using her degree specialism in the application of semiotic thinking to brand and strategic design research to lead Space Doctors Recoding offer - a semiotics-based development of design language for brand communications.
Prior to her MA degree she co-founded The Brand Lab, a Venezuela-based brand design consultancy that she ran until 2004 when she moved to the U.K. She has worked with clients such as Coca-Cola, Diageo, Mitsubishi Motors in a range of categories such as drinks, food, financial services energy, automotive, education and sports both for private and public sectors. During this time she managed projects from the conceptualisation and definition of visual strategies to the production stage both for digital/interactive and printed media in multidisciplinary environments.
María Alexandra holds a degree in graphic design/visual communication from Prodiseño (the leading design school in Venezuela) and subsequently part-time Associate Professor of Graphic Design until 2004.
