About | Fabio Issao

Work inquiries:
fabio.issao@gmail.com
+55 11 96858 6245

Awards

Logo of the Month
LogoMoose, July 2014

Logo of the Month
Logo Treasure, July 2014

Sixth Annual Logo Design Awards
HOW Design Magazine, 2014

Roche Lab Design
1st place (partnership with Alessandro Sciulli), 2003

Publications

Not For Print
Issue Nº 2 - Resist
Published by Ello & WeTransfer, 2018

→ Logoism: Contemporary Logo Design
Edited by Sandu Publishing
Published by Gingko Press, 2017

→ Bézier Vol. 1: The Best Vector Artists Worldwide
Published by Crooks Creative, 2017

→ Logograma: Logo Design for Dynamic Identities
Edited by Wang Shaoqiang
Published by Sandu Publishing, 2015

→ Design Management – Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation
Written and edited by Kathryn Best
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

Talks

Semana de Branding O Boticário – Inovação Consciente
Curitiba, PR, Brazil, 2014

Inova+ – Estratégias Integradas de Marca
São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2014

Integrated Business Strategy
InspiraMais 2014, SP, Brazil, 2014

Semana D – Tendências Criativas, a Forma Como o Mundo se Projeta
Curitiba, PR, Brazil, 2013

Interviews

Interview with Fabio Issao
Logo Parade, Jan 2016

→ Fabio Issao, do LabEducação:
Tecnologias que todo empreendedor precisa ter à mão
Projeto Draft, Jan 2015

Interview with Fabio Issao
Logo Treasure, Jan 2014

Get in Touch

Designing languages for the edges of understanding.

Fabio Issao is an independent designer based in São Paulo, Brazil, working across branding, information design, and illustration. He designs languages: visual and narrative systems that turn complex ideas into forms people can understand, without losing their depth.

His practice began with a fascination for composition, illustration, and the craft of making meaning. Over time, his attention moved from how things look to why they exist, and his work expanded into strategy and identity for cultural, educational, scientific, and technological organizations. Along the way, design became less a tool for executing answers than a method of inquiry: a way to reveal the structures and meanings already present in each subject.

His work is conceptually rigorous, minimal, and structured, balancing clear communication with a quiet poetic tension. He is drawn to boundaries and in-between spaces: the visible and the invisible, structure and intuition, knowledge and uncertainty. He also returns again and again to the meeting point of science, technology, philosophy, and spirituality.

Formerly Director of Strategic Design at Mandalah, a global conscious-innovation consultancy, he has collaborated for more than a decade with Reos Partners on transformative scenarios across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the United States. He is a long-term design partner to organizations such as Spacetime Labs, Moray, Island of Knowledge, and the Barton School of Business, and his work has been featured on global creative platforms and in design-strategy publications.

For him, design is a way of engaging with the unknown: giving form to what is still unfolding, so that we can see with more precision, question with more curiosity, and understand with more empathy. He welcomes conversations with people and institutions, especially in culture, education, and research, whose thinking resonates with this view of design as inquiry.

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Symbols are seeds: planted in curiosity, they bloom into consciousness.Symbols are seeds: planted in curiosity, they bloom into consciousness.Symbols are seeds: planted in curiosity, they bloom into consciousness.

Get in touch

fabio.issao@gmail.com

T +55 11 96858 6245