Toga Cox is a freelance Design Director in Brooklyn available for startups, studios, agencies, and non-profits.
toga@octoberoutpost.com
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Toga Cox
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Toga Cox is a Freelance Design Director 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 Experience

72 and Sunny

Anomaly
Analog Folk

Barton F. Graf

BBH
Co:Collective
De-Yan

Droga5
Forsman+Bodenfors NY
Johannes Leonardo
Joan Creative

JWT
McCann NY

Mother NY
Ogilvy

Orchard Creative

Publicis NY
Brand Experience

Adidas
Android
Budweiser
Blue Apron
Converse
De Beers
Delta
Duolingo
GoDaddy
Google
Meta
Mass Mutual
Nike
Robinhood
Spotify
Supercell

Under Armour
Verizon

Walmart
Waze
Toolkit

After Effects
A.I.
Claude
Gemini
Midjourney
Runway
Weavy
Capture One
Cinema 4D
Figma
Illustrator
InDesign
Photoshop
Sketch
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

Freelance Design Director for De Beers
Sally Morrison, Natural Diamond Marketing Lead

Product imagery provided by De Beers
Press

jckonline
National Jeweler
Deliverables

Campaign Identity
Motion Design
Template Systems (Banner, Displays, Social)
3D
Toga Julius-John Cox
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