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Thiago Rocha

Creative Director & Lead Designer

Salvador, Brazil

Available for new work

Making brands, systems, experiences, and workflows.

Portrait of Thiago Rocha

Brand designer and creative director based in Salvador, Brazil. I run ROCHA℠, a branding studio for fashion labels: strategy, identity and creative direction.

At WKNDHRS, a production studio in Los Angeles, I lead design on the Gopuff account across in-app, social and CRM, and work on X Games, Powerade and BodyArmor.

Designing since 2021. 50+ projects, with work featured in Best of Behance, World Brand Design Society and Abduzeedo.

Based in
Salvador, Brazil
Brands in
14+ Countries
Languages
Portuguese, English, French

Running design on Gopuff at WKNDHRS. Building AI workflows in Figma Weave and Claude Code that automate the grunt work. Taking on a few projects for fashion labels through ROCHA℠.

  1. ROCHA℠

    Founder, Creative Director

    ROCHA℠ is a branding studio for fashion labels: strategy, identity and creative direction. I build each label's identity system and direct the seasons that follow. Fashion work includes Veronica Di Santo, a bridal label that showed at New York Bridal Fashion Week and appeared in WWD, and Destroy 2 Rebuild, a DC streetwear brand. Outside fashion, the studio has worked across technology, hospitality, health and education, including the Sympatient rebrand and pitch deck; the company closed a €7.5M Series A soon after.

    2023 — NowSalvador, Brazil

  2. WKNDHRS

    Lead Designer

    Running Gopuff's design across in-app, social, and CRM, and I work on the X Games, Powerade, and BodyArmor accounts. I inherited a scattered pipeline and rebuilt it to ship on time. The briefs are exact and the deadlines are short, so I learned Figma Weave and Claude Code and built tools that cut the turnaround on AI image work. I helped build the Lucci Lambrusco x Gopuff billboard in Times Square and the seasonal Starbucks x Gopuff series, working with their senior marketing manager. I also helped redesign the onboarding so first-time users understand Gopuff without drowning in it.

    2025 — NowRemote, Freelance

  3. Parallax Studios

    Brand Designer

    2024Remote, Freelance

  4. Independent

    Brand Designer

    2021 — 2023Worldwide

Powerade via WKNDHRS

Packaging, Social, Art direction · 2026

Squeeze bottle

Helped design the limited-edition Powerade x Lamine Yamal squeeze bottle, one of the top-tier rewards in Powerade's House of Legends campaign.

Match ball box

Developed the concept for the box that holds a game-used Trionda, the official match ball of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and another top-tier reward.

Art direction

Set the visual language for the campaign and held it across every social asset, so the feed read as one system next to the packaging and broadcast work.

Asset production

Designed the full set of organic posts and paid placements that ran across Powerade's channels through the World Cup window.

X Games via WKNDHRS

Pitch, Concepts · 2025

Helped shape the early concepts that won WKNDHRS the X Games partnership, built in a week-long sprint with the team behind the pitch. The partnership still runs.

Gopuff via WKNDHRS

In-app, Social, CRM, AI workflows · 2025

Leading design on the account

WKNDHRS brought me on in early 2025 to run Gopuff's in-app, social, and CRM design. The account moves fast. I built the workflows, learned how the company operates, and turned a scattered pipeline into one that ships on time.

Building AI workflows

The pace runs fast and the bar sits high. Gopuff sends exact briefs on tight deadlines: this product, dropped into that scene, pixel-correct. To meet that, I track every shift in AI image generation. I learned Figma Weave and Claude Code and built tools that automate the grunt work and cut turnaround.

Times Square: Lucci Lambrusco x Gopuff

Gopuff partnered with Lucci Lambrusco, and the campaign ran on a billboard at the Midtown Financial building in Times Square.

Seasonal Starbucks x Gopuff

I help build the seasonal campaigns for the long-running Starbucks and Gopuff partnership, working straight with their Senior Marketing Manager. Plus a stack of holiday and seasonal promotions, each with its own identity and its own problems to solve.

Redesigning the new-user journey

Helped redesign the onboarding flow so first-time users learn what Gopuff actually is, without drowning in it.

Animae Mundi

Brand identity, Creative direction, Website · 2026

Brand identity, creative direction, and website for a transdisciplinary cultural platform weaving Eastern and Western thought into new modes of knowledge, perception, and world-building.

Destroy 2 Rebuild

Brand strategy, Identity, Website · 2026

Brand strategy, identity, and website for a DC streetwear brand repositioning around intentional reinvention, for those who've rejected inherited aesthetics on purpose.

INKON

Positioning, Identity, Photography direction · 2026

Brand positioning, identity, and photography direction for a men's temporary tattoo brand entering a crowded category. With Isabele Almeida.

Veronica Di Santo

Creative direction, Brand strategy, Identity · 2026

Creative direction, brand strategy, and identity for a new bridal collection under the Ines Di Santo house, positioning it as a distinct label within an established luxury brand. Brand featured in the New York Bridal Fashion Week, WWD, and others.

Wadha AlHarban

Personal brand · 2026

Personal brand relaunch for a photographer returning to the industry after a multi-year break.

Artemisia Labs

Rebrand · 2025

Rebrand for an AI company exiting stealth ahead of a major partnership announcement. With Isabele Almeida.

Davartos

Naming, Brand identity · 2025

Naming and brand identity for a Brazilian multidisciplinary studio focused on narrative games. With Guilherme Dossantos.

CAU/BR

Branding, Public competition · 2025

Branding proposal for the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urban Planning's public design competition. Not selected. Picked up 2 Behance features anyway. With João Maximiano.

Morinel Studio

Branding · 2024

Branding for a competing agency.

Sympatient

Rebrand, Pitch deck · 2021

Rebrand and pitch deck for a German medical startup. Leading the company to closing a €7.5M Series A shortly after.

  1. Brand identity

    Strategy, identity systems and guidelines, cut to measure for fashion labels.

  2. Creative direction

    Campaign concepts, art direction and a visual language that holds across every touchpoint.

  3. In-app, social and CRM

    High-volume design for brands that ship daily, on systems that keep quality up and turnaround down.

  4. AI workflows

    Image generation pipelines and custom tools in Figma Weave and Claude Code that automate the repetitive work.

Design

AI

  • Figma Weave

    AI image generation

Code

Year2026
OriginProject
Behance InDesignCOLE'D
World Brand Design Society, SelectedVeronica Di Santo
World Brand Design Society, SelectedDavartos
World Brand Design SocietyInside Job
World Brand Design Society, SelectedPIEGA
Best of BehancePIEGA
Behance BrandingCOLE'D
Behance BrandingInside Job
Behance StockInside Job
World Brand Design SocietyArtemisia Labs
Behance BrandingCAU/BR
Estudio ArquitectosArtemisia Labs
AbduzeedoArtemisia Labs
AbduzeedoROCHA Branding
AbduzeedoDavartos
Behance BrandingCasa de Héroes
Year2025
OriginProject
Behance BrandingMorinel Studio
Behance InDesignCAU/BR
Behance StockCasa de Héroes
Outstanding BrandingCasa de Héroes
Behance BrandingLogofolio_01
AbduzeedoNOUMENON LAB
Behance StockNOUMENON LAB
Behance BrandingNOUMENON LAB
Behance InDesignMorinel Studio
Behance InDesignThe Dream Architects
Year2024
OriginProject
AbduzeedoCyfr
Behance BrandingROCHA℠ Personal Brand
Behance EditorialThe Dream Architects
Behance BrandingHavenworth & Co.
Behance InDesignROCHA℠ Personal Brand
Year2023
OriginProject
Behance InDesignHavenworth & Co.

Have a brand that needs to say something? Write to me.

thiago@rocha.sm

Available for new work