Miguel Vega
Design / Art Direction - FOR HIRE · Accent Creative
San Diego, CA
In My Own Words
Portfolio of work: www.accent.tv
Design & Direction with focus on music and action-sports industries.
Brand Identity, Motion Graphics, UI Design, Tour Visuals, and Apparel Design.
Work Experience
Creative Director
Accent Creative2006 – Present
Art Direction & Graphic Design for multiple mediums. Working for direct clients as well as collaborating with various agencies from San Diego to Helsinki.
Co-Founder
Weaselrat Ltd. Co.2024 – Present
After an initial request to design the company logo, I decided to join the project to help build it into a multi-product brand. Establish collaborations and focus strictly on my passion, brand design.
Founder/ Designer
Dataset Clothing2010 – 2022
Followed by over a decade developing brands for the music and action sports industries, the need to launch a clothing label was born as an excuse to learn, experiment and exercise all levels of brand extension for a single company.
A way to merge digital mediums with tangible/ wearable items, to explore creative ways to design, produce, promote, package and deliver quality products.
Follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/datasetclothing
Bassrush - Lead Tour Visuals
Insomniac Events2011 – 2018
Stage visuals contractor for the Bassrush branded stages at EDC Las Vegas, EDC Orlando, Nocturnal Wonderland, Beyond Wonderland, Escape, Countdown, etc.
Designer
Daily Bread Magazine2004 – 2005
Daily Bread is a skate magazine dedicated to bringing you the hottest pictures and jive-talkingest articles in the industry. The bimonthly profiles feature the best and brightest skaters from all over the world in every issue.
Created advertisements and layouts for in house publication, with a distribution base of 40,000. Responsibilities: Photo retouching; layout design & pre-press production; web design; interactive presentations and Illustration for clothing items.
Senior Designer
United Web Services2002 – 2005
Concept planning & design of websites, Identity, Brochures and collateral for various clients in the diving & action sports industries.
Senior Designer / Jr Animator
Metrovision2000 – 2001
For more than 20 years, Metrovision has been offering postproduction services to the advertising, television and movie industry. Since the very beginning, Metrovision has used the most advanced technological infrastructure, has trained its professionals and has become a reference in the audiovisual activity for Argentina and the world.
More than 70% of the commercials made in the country, TV program openings, video clips and feature films are processed in its 2500 m2 facilities located in Buenos Aires.
Education
Projects
Weaselrat Brand Design
https://accent.tv/weaselrat-brand-designSet out to revolutionize the miniature skateboard experience with expertly crafted fingerboards, WEASELRAT draws inspiration from a rich skateboarding heritage by infusing the brand with a passion for high-quality materials and craftsmanship.
The brand needed to stand out and appeal equally to the experienced community and the casual collector interested in accurate miniature scale models of skateboards. A retro-inspired look behind the typography and colors, and Ollie, the brand mascot, with a mischievous character, will help this brand stand out through its personality.
Live site: http://www.weaselrat.com
Mt Bachelor Apparel Design
https://accent.tv/mt-bachelor-apparel-merchExcited to share some recent hashtag#appareldesign created for hashtag#MtBachelor Ski Resort. While I’ve been fully focused on growing Weaselrat Ltd. Co., this project almost slipped my mind. Fortunately, my friend Chris recently spotted the pieces at the resort shop during his most recent hashtag#snowboarding trip and was kind enough to send me some photos. The collection includes both production-ready designs currently available at the resort and a few concept pieces that didn’t make it to final production. It’s always rewarding to see your work in action!
Interests
Skills
Industries
Activity
See allMiguel Vega
! Category Design Is Over ! Consumers don’t buy product now. They buy continuity. They want clothing that moves the way they live, across environment, community, mood, terrain…activity. One system. One identity. Style is no longer aesthetic. It is belonging. Startups understand this. They don’t chase demographics, they find identity clusters. Running culture solved it. Designing and understanding the product that works for 6am tempo runs, needs to work at 6pm. Same person, same codes, no separation between athlete and individual. I’m working with a client in the outdoor space chasing that same unlock. A New York client/consumer who heads north (VT) for air, snow and weekend turns shouldn’t need two wardrobes or two versions of themselves. Their taste is constant. Their expectations are constant. Their visual language is constant. Outdoor hasn’t caught up. The templates repeat. The playbook is fixed. The culture looks the same season after season. This is exactly why freelance designers matter. Unfiltered perspectives. New models of thinking. No legacy borders. ‘ Back-Country ‘ ideas applied to looking forward, not back Continuity. A system that understands the full radius of a life.
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Beside the physical act of skateboarding, the culture showcases a variety of artistic mediums. One that needs more discussion is that of animation. So I teamed up with Jenkem Magazine to talk about some major highlights of the animation in skate videos throughout history.
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