Santiago Valencia Vera.

About

I work between strategy and the built environment. Brand systems that have to hold up across buildings, retail floors, and clinical contexts.

Fifteen years of practice across institutional, clinical, and commercial work in Colombia and the wider region. The thread is consistency. A design that only survives the launch is not finished.

I started in wayfinding at Universidad de Antioquia in 2005. Over eight years the system stretched across four building typologies without losing its voice. That work taught me to think in governance rather than guidelines.

Today I lead consumer experience at XO Center, the phygital retail concept by Distrihogar. The brief is the same as it ever was. Make the brand legible in the room.

Disciplines

Wayfinding

Signage systems that scale across many buildings, materials, and operators. From clinical environments to rural campuses.

Brand strategy

Visual identity that holds up through ten years of contact points. Governance, not just guidelines.

Phygital retail

Stores that work as much in the screen as on the floor. Currently leading the XO Center concept at Distrihogar.

Corporate identity

Long-form work for institutions where the design has to be adopted by people who never met the designer.

Selected clients

Distrihogar / XO Center
Phygital retail concept
Universidad de Antioquia
Wayfinding · 2005 to 2013
Ruta N Medellín
Wayfinding system
Dream Plaza Panama
Commercial wayfinding
Viva Centros Comerciales
Retail brand & wayfinding

Working on something that needs to hold up in the room?