Selected Work

About Me

Toga Cox is a Freelance Design Lead based in Brooklyn with over a decade of experience across agencies like Droga5, Mother, and 72andSunny, and in-house teams at Spotify and Facebook. He brings a systems mindset and high craft to every project, with a multi-disciplinary skillset that lets him move fast and go wide while maintaining cohesion.

His creative philosophy leans toward the obvious-in-the-best-way: work that lands immediately but rewards a closer look. Visually, he gravitates toward bold, punchy graphics, heavy type, and high contrast work that commands attention. If you wouldn't scream it, don't say it.

That approach has taken him from designing award-winning ad campaigns to exhibiting during Art Basel Miami and having his photography published in The New York Times.

When he's not designing, he's writing music for indie films, at the gym, building furniture, playing with his two cats, or taking street photography in your neighborhood.

Toga is currently seeking freelance and full-time opportunities.

Agency and Brand Experience
72 and Sunny, Adidas, Analog Folk, Android, Anomaly, Barton F. Graf, BBH, Blue Apron, Budweiser, Co:Collective, Converse, De Beers, De-Yan, Delta Airlines, Droga5, Duolingo, Forsman+Bodenfors NY, GoDaddy, Google, Joan Creative, Johannes Leonardo, JWT, Mass Mutual, McCann NY, Meta, Mother NY, Nike, Ogilvy, Orchard Creative, Publicis NY, Robinhood, Spotify, Supercell, Under Armour, Verizon, Walmart, Waze

Archived Work

Spotify for Artists needed its own identity distinct enough to speak to creators, but unmistakably Spotify. I helped define the visual system: typography, color, and a photography direction rooted in three moments of an artist's journey: performing, creating, and connecting with fans. Beyond the core identity, I built out templates for email, social, and marketing pipelines, and served as a bridge between marketing and product teams to ensure brand consistency from campaigns through to the redesigned Spotify for Artists digital hub.

Credits
Created at Spotify
Role, Freelance Senior Designer
Ras Wangelin, Global ACD
Martin Berggren, Art Director
James Aviaz, Copywriter
Deliverables
Brand Identity
Guidelines
Templates
UI Design

De Beers asked me to revisit their iconic "Seize the Day" campaign for the 2023 holiday season, this time targeting a younger audience. I updated the headline-driven campaign with contemporary typefaces and layouts while preserving the elegance of the original. Print OOH stayed refined, but digital and social pushed into more expressive territory with animation and 3D renders to connect with a new generation. I also built out the full banner and template system across formats.

Credits
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Sally Morrison, Natural Diamond Marketing Lead
Product imagery by De Beers
Deliverables
Campaign Identity
Motion Design
Template Systems
OOH (Print and Digital)
Digital Ads
Social Assets

Facebook Company needed a flexible graphic system for situations where commissioning illustration or photography wasn't feasible. I developed a modular toolkit built from foundational shapes—square, circle, triangle—that could combine to represent themes and concepts across departments. The approach stayed true to Facebook's "Empathetic Design" system: shapes were subtly imperfect rather than geometric, and color palettes pulled directly from photography. The project was sunset when the company rebranded to Meta.

Credits
Created at Facebook
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Zach Stubenvoll, Head of Design
Richard Harrington, Design Director
Deliverables
Brand Design
Brand Guidelines
Illustration
Social Assets

Runa needed a campaign identity to launch their natural energy drink made from guayusa, a tea leaf sourced from the Amazon. I developed a visual system centered on "New Energy, Please," emphasizing organic energy and the drink's natural origins through bold graphics and energizing visuals that contrast with synthetic energy drink aesthetics.

Credits
Created at Orchard Creative
Role, Freelance Senior Designer
Jeff Kling, CCO & Copywriter
Deliverables
Campaign Identity
Brand Guidelines
Illustration
Print Production
Templates
AVEC Jalapeño & Blood Orange label

AVEC needed a launch identity for their all-natural cocktail mixers. I developed the brand from the ground up: logo, packaging, photography, and guidelines. The visual direction drew from 1920s post-prohibition aesthetics, capturing celebration and sophistication while positioning AVEC as a healthier, modern alternative.

Credits
Created in collaboration with AVEC
Role, Freelance Design Director
Dee Charlemagne, Co-Founder
Alex Doman, Co-Founder
Joyce Lee, Producer
Marcd, Web Experience
Deliverables
Art Direction
Brand Identity
Guidelines
Illustration
Logo Design
Packaging Design
Photography
Delta Air Lines

Overhead Originals is a first-of-its-kind live-music platform for Delta Air Lines, in partnership with YouTube: original sets filmed inside a real Delta cabin, released in-flight and on Delta's channels. It launched in April 2025 with Grammy winner Leon Thomas.

As a freelance Design Director at Kin, I co-led the brand identity. We created the logo and its system, set the vision for the art direction, and wrote the guidelines for Delta's creative teams to execute against, covering social, digital ads, and out-of-home.

Credits
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Agency, Kin
Deliverables
Art Direction
Brand Guidelines
Campaign Design
Design System
Social Assets
Robinhood Gold Event 2025

Robinhood Presents: The Lost City of Gold was the second annual keynote for Robinhood Gold, the company's premium membership, staged in San Francisco in March 2025 to unveil Strategies, Banking, and Cortex.

The identity we developed at the Violet Office extended the Robinhood Gold design system established by Port Rocha. For The Lost City of Gold, we set the art direction, created the AI-assisted graphics, and designed the signage.

Credits
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Agency, Violet Office
Deliverables
Art Direction
Signage Design
Breaking Glass

A short documentary on three groundbreaking New York glass artists — Deborah Czeresko, Grace Whiteside, and Tomoko Amaki Abe — reshaping a field long dominated by male maestros. I composed the original score, underscoring the heat and craft of the hot shop as these women, non-binary, and queer artists push glassblowing forward formally, conceptually, and demographically.

Credits
Role, Original Score
Directed by Jessica Levin & Alexander Krause
Deliverables
Original Score
Sound Design
Foley
Dialogue Edit & Mix
Google Marketing Live 2025

Google Marketing Live 2025 was Google's annual keynote for advertisers, broadcast from Mountain View in May 2025. Embedded on Google's in-house team, I helped translate its keynote concepts into a cohesive visual language and the storyboards that shaped the presentation.

Credits
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Made at Google
Deliverables
Keynote Concepts
Storyboards
Visual Concepts
Duolingo x Crocs Photography

Art direction and photography for the Duolingo × Crocs collaboration. I set the shoot's playful, high-saturation, product-forward look, building a library of images that carried the collab's irreverent energy across social and retail.

Credits
Role, Photographer/Art Director
Shot for Duolingo
Creative Director, Fati Jafri
Deliverables
Art Direction
Photography
Ten/Ten Campaign Design

Campaign concept and art direction for Ten/Ten, spanning the key visual and its rollout across channels — a punchy, type-led system designed to scale from hero placements down to social.

Credits
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Made at De Beers
Deliverables
Campaign Design
Social Assets
Templates
The Radiance by Couture

Logo and social identity for The Radiance by Couture, a high-jewellery collection from De Beers. I designed the wordmark and built the supporting suite of social assets.

Credits
Role, Freelance Design Lead
Deliverables
Logo
Social Assets
Blue Apron

Blue Apron launched a limited-run packaging series to support their "Better Food, From Scratch" campaign. I worked alongside the campaign's art director to bring the film's illustration style onto the packaging — creating a visual thread that connected the TV spots to the product arriving on customers' doorsteps.

Credits
Created at Droga5
Role, Senior Designer
Rob Trostle, Executive Design Director
Ben Grube, ACD, Art Director
Brian Eden, ACD, Copywriter
Daniel Frost, Illustrator
Deliverables
Art Direction
Campaign Identity
Packaging Design
Grubhub

To build on Grubhub's "Click. Click. Food." campaign, our team developed an OOH look and feel built around a simple idea: infinite food at your fingertips. The art direction used flexible layouts showcasing popular delivery categories that rotated seasonally to keep the campaign fresh.

Credits
Role, Designer & Art Director
Dave Canning, CD, Copy
Dan Treichel, CD, Art
Matthew Egan, Design Director
Adam Kurtz, Designer & Art Director
Daniel Seung Lee, Photographer
Deliverables
Art Direction
Campaign Identity
Print Production
Potential Energy

Potential Energy is a non-profit harnessing creativity to drive action against climate change. I developed the brand identity from logo through full system. The visual language is intentionally restrained: simplified, modern, and refined so the work itself can be the hero. The single "O" in the logotype serves as a subtle metaphor for our one and only planet.

Credits
Created in collaboration with Potential Energy
Role, Freelance Senior Designer
Casey Rand, Creative Director
Deliverables
Brand Identity
Logo Design
Motion Design
Template System
Web Design
Droga5 Refresh

Droga5's 10th anniversary was the right moment for a brand refresh. What started as a summer intern recruitment campaign became the catalyst for a full rebrand, proving we had the talent in-house to pull it off. I helped update the visual identity across the board: new typography, new color palette, internal signage, event branding for the D5 festival, and a custom intranet designed from scratch (staff directory, forms, company news, building maps). Everything evolved except the logo.

Credits
Role, Senior Designer
Rob Trostle, Global Design Direction
Rich Greco, Design Director
Michelle Wang, Senior Designer
Deliverables
Brand Identity
Brand Guidelines
Template Systems
Iconography
Art Direction
Intranet/Web Design
UI Design
GoDaddy

GoDaddy needed to shed its reputation for lowbrow marketing and reposition as a legitimate partner for small businesses. What started as a campaign to launch their new domain extensions (.nyc, .guru, .club) evolved into a full rebrand. I developed bold typography inspired by mid-century design, using type as the primary visual element. A signature "dynamic dash" graphic system stretched across layouts for visual cohesion across campaigns, web, print, and outdoor advertising.

Credits
Created at Barton F. Graf
Role, Designer
Matt Egan, Design Director
The GoDaddy Design Team
Deliverables
Campaign Identity
Brand Identity
Template System
Iconography
Logo Refinement
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