We design meaningful brand experiences that increase the perceived value of brands.

Profile

We are an international branding studio with offices in Lima and Madrid. 20 years experience in New York, Tokyo, Madrid and Lima working with clients from various industries give us a global vision.

The passion for our work and our international customers have made us natural coolhunters. We have the vision, intuition and sensitivity to collect demographic information for new markets and consumer trends. To differenciate, observe and analyze these trends makes us understand what are the new benchmarks of creating successful strategies.

Our work process is based on extensive research, working as a team with our clients on strategic plans, questioning established truths, generating new ways, transforming perceptions and maximizing the value proposition. We create memorable brand experiences that go beyond the product, giving almost revolutionary unique solutions that create loyalty beyond reason.

Branding Services

naming
brand consulting
communication strategy
retail branding

Design Services

logotypes
visual identities
packaging design
editorial design
exhibition design
signage
animation
product design
art direction

Software Services

websites
interface design
UX

Richars Meza

Creative Director

Richars Meza is a Peruvian born Spanish creative director and typographer. He founded IS Creative Studio in Madrid in January 2010, where he conceptualizes products and packagings, ad campaigns and catalogs, logos and brand identities, as well as events and installations.

Richars Meza studied graphic design and advertising at Toulouse Lautrec Institute and IPP in Lima. He started his career working for the renown graphic design consultancy Studioa/Interbrand, Axis and the largest advertising agency at that time in Peru, Causa/Leo Burnett.

He moved to New York City in 1989 to study interactive design and animation at Pratt Institute where he worked for the interactive agency Oven Digital (where he won a Gold Pencil at One Show Interactive 2000), the corporate design firm Siegel Gale, and the advertising & design agency Blue Dingo.

After four years in New York City, he moved to Tokyo to work as an Art Director for the interactive studio Insentiv Media, designing art works for Nikon, Mazda, Mitsubishi Electric, Tosoh, Fuji Xerox and Toyota.

In 2003 he relocated to Madrid to co found a design company to be in charge of the creative direction, working for the Spanish film industry and other cultural institutions. Seven years later in 2010, after winning at the European Design Awards and Premios Laus, he began a new phase establishing his own design firm, IS Creative Studio.

Awards

2013

  • Brand New Awards / Basic Identity Award – Latin American Design
  • Brand New Awards / Comprenhensive Identity Award – Madrid Street Art Project

2012

  • Brand New Awards / Best of Category – IS Creative Studio
  • Brand New Awards / Basic Identity Application – IS Creative Studio
  • Brandemia / Nominación a mejor agencia del año

Conferences & Exhibitions

2017

  • Brand New Conference, Chicago
  • Milan Design Week – Fuorisalone Ventura Lambrate, Milan

2016

  • Weltformat 16 – Poster Festival, Lucerne
  • London Design Biennale, London
  • Coloquio Diseño Gráfico PUCP, Lima

2015

  • Museum voor Communicatie, The Hauge
  • Behance Portfolio Reviews, Lima

2014

  • Behance Portfolio Reviews, Lima

2013

  • 8º Coloquio de Diseño Gráfico – Pontificia Universidad Católica Perú

2012

  • ADI Design Award Exhibition – Hangzhou, China
  • OFFF Barcelona – Disseny Hub

2011

  • MADinSpain – Palacio de Congresos, Madrid
  • OFFF Barcelona – Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona

2010

  • Festival VivAmérica – Matadero, Madrid
  • Pecha-Kucha – Centro de Turismo Colón, Madrid

Publications

2014

  • I Love Helvetica, Victionary – Hong Kong
  • DPI Magazine – Taiwan

2013

  • Neon, Victionary – Hong Kong
  • Brochure&Layout, High Tone Publishing – China

2012

  • Just Kidding, Victionary – Hong Kong
  • Single Page Design, DesignerBooks – Beijing, China
  • Colour, Victionary – Hong Kong
  • ADI Design Annual Vol.3 – Hangzhou, China
  • IdeaFixa Magazine – Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Way of Sign III – Hong Kong
  • Choi’s Gallery Magazine Vol.16 – Shanghai, China
  • The Best of Brochure Design, Rockport Publishing – San Francisco, USA
  • Brand, High Tone Publishing – China

2011

  • Innovation Stationary Graphics – Barcelona

Offices

Madrid & Lima