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
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
Press

jckonline
National Jeweler
Deliverables

Brand Identity
Brand Guidelines
Template Systems
Iconography
Art Direction
Intranet/Web Design
UI Design
Toga Julius-John Cox
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