Juan Carlos Polo Chaviano is a Cuban-born designer, illustrator, and NFT artist based in Miami, with over 15 years of experience.
His work is known for its strange, colorful, and highly detailed characters and creatures, blending hand-drawn and digital techniques. He uses illustration as a powerful communication tool in graphic design, posters, cultural events, advertising, and applications in architecture and urban planning.

He has created illustrations for a variety of projects, including interior design, urban interventions, visual environments for hotels and restaurants, as well as children’s books, adult literature, and culinary guides. His style is characterized by meticulous line work, vibrant color palettes, and carefully composed images, often featuring fantastical, multicolored beings. He currently works as a graphic designer and illustrator at Cartel, a creative studio specializing in illustrated branding.

The students and staff of the MA Identity Design study programme at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences believe in the inspiring qualities of communities, their own as well as those anywhere on this planet. Moreover, it’s what they focus on. Their course provides a space for the in-depth study and critical discussion of collective identity in its various forms of expression and appearance. Students develop a deeper understanding of identity shaping processes in social, cultural and economic contexts. They are encouraged to combine methods derived from artistic and design practice with techniques from the social sciences to gain new insights into and create tools for identity driven communication. See what we’re up to on … instagram.com/ma_identity_design