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Paula Natal

29 April 2026 – 31 January 2027

Paula Natal is an Art Director and Visual Designer based in Gijón. Her professional focus has always straddled creativity and technology. After years of experience as a visual and product designer and art director in technology firms and B2B consultancies, she realised that static, department-siloed design acts as a bottleneck for growing companies.

Her work does not consist of delivering static brand identity manuals, but rather of building Brand Operating Systems. She designs living identities that integrate movement, design systems in Figma and layers of automation with generative AI, centralising everything within an operational environment and ensuring that design serves as a tool for efficiency, consistency and growth. He believes that a brand is only valuable when it reduces friction and accurately conveys the true value of those behind it.

From his studio in Gijón, he helps scaling companies to professionalise their image through systems that their teams can use independently, and to create video content that utilises AI and motion graphics to enhance a professional and robust brand presence.

Project in residence

BRAND_OS

BRAND_OS is a modular Brand Operating System designed for teams, which replaces the traditional static brand identity manual with a dynamic and scalable digital environment. Its premise is clear: a brand is not just something to look at, it is also something to use.

The project was created to resolve the technical friction between the creation of a brand identity and its day-to-day application. To this end, BRAND_OS centralises visual assets (logo, colour, typography, UI, motion) and integrates generative Artificial Intelligence tools into the client’s workflow. Through visual generation modules (Syntographer) and writing assistants (Voice & Tone), the system empowers teams with autonomy.

The key is judgement. Whilst current AI tools are mere executors, BRAND_OS is the source of knowledge that trains them. This avoids generic AI outputs and ensures that anyone can maintain brand consistency, whether designing in Figma, working in Canva or editing video, whether they use AI or not.

The aim at LABoral is to consolidate this architecture and refine API integration through workflows