Oscar Bastidas

Oscar Bastidas is a Venezuelan Art Director, specialized in Branding Design, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Oscar has over 15 years of experience on the development of advertising material and art pieces for clients such as Toyota, Johnnie Walker, Ciroc, Buchanan´s, Budget, McDonald's and JW Marriott Hotels, among others. His work has also been featured in international publications specialized in Design such as: Logoism, Logo Decode, Logos 4, Graphics Can Be Managed and Eat & Go.

Oscar also teaches Branding Design in Crehana.com, a major Hispanic e-learning platform for Visual Arts, with more than 2600 students on his class.

He is also known as "Mor8", name under which he has expanded his calling for graphic arts, with a focus on what he calls "Hand-Crafted Branding Design", a different and organic way he uses to design a brand, full of illustrations and hand-made details. Currently, his artwork is booming amongst emerging brands from numerous industries in countries like the US, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Argentina and Switzerland.