Miguel

Creative Direction Technology Culture AI
Miguel Castro

MouthPad^

Digital access is not access if the body cannot reach the interface.

A mouth interface for hands-free digital control.

Creative Director, co-directed — Humanizing the technology

  • Cannes Lions, Grand Prix, Innovation
  • Cannes Lions, Silver, Health & Wellness
  • Cannes Lions, Shortlist, Titanium
  • CES Innovation Awards, Honoree, Accessibility & AgeTech

Vanishing Emails

Promotional emails expire, but their footprint does not.

A tool that makes expired promotional emails disappear.

Creative Director, co-directed — Concept, logic and meaning

  • Cannes Lions, Bronze, Innovation
  • Cannes Lions, Shortlist, Titanium
  • El Ojo, Silver, Innovation
  • El Ojo, Silver, Digital & Social

Bank on Equality

The wage gap was treated as a statistic, but lived as missing financial value.

A banking action that returned value equivalent to the wage gap.

Creative Director — Concept development and cultural strategy

  • Cannes Lions, Bronze, PR
  • El Ojo, Best Idea, Peru
  • Clio, Silver, Public Relations — Cause Related
  • Clio, Bronze, Public Relations — Corporate Image
  • El Ojo, Gold, Direct
  • El Ojo, Silver, Sustainable

Hey! He Is Not a Kid

Online grooming hides behind false identity: trust forms around the surface.

A football intervention exposing online identity deception.

Creative Director — Creative direction and cultural context

  • Clio Sports, Gold, Social Good
  • Clio Sports, Silver, Gameday / In-Game Experience
  • New York Festivals, Gold, PR — Events & Stunts
  • El Ojo, Bronze, Sport
  • El Ojo, Bronze, PR — Corporate Social Responsibility

IRBIN

The moment of classification is where people hesitate, guess or fail.

An intelligent recycling object that helps classify waste.

Creative Director — Concept, creative and technical logic

  • Bronze, El Ojo Innovation

Behind The Fear

Violence was hidden inside a channel built for ordinary communication.

A hidden-message mechanism inside email.

Creative Director — Concept, technical direction and meaning

  • Bronze, El Ojo Innovation

The rules hadn't been written yet and you had to invent them as you went.

Miguel Castro

I'm a Creative Director working from what others miss.

I work at the intersection of creativity, technology and culture. That intersection made me AI-proficient, not as a prompt engineer, but as someone with a method: thinking alongside the machine rather than directing it.

I find the overlooked tension, the hidden behavior, the unspoken contradiction. Then I stay with it long enough to turn it into something people can use, see or feel.

Bring me in when the idea is promising, but not yet clear enough to survive reality.

Garnier Agency

Creative Director · 2025–2026

Organizing the work, strengthening the team's judgment, pushing ideas that could hold up outside the market they came from.

VML

Senior Creative Director · 2021–2025

Keeping the standard high. Pushing ideas further, keeping the craft honest through tight deadlines, long meetings, creeping doubt.

Freelance

Creative Consultant · 2019–2021

Close to the center of projects. Before the deck, before the campaign, when the idea didn't quite know what it was yet.

TRUE

Associate Creative Director · 2016–2019

Small teams, clients like Adidas and Citroën. Not every important chapter makes noise. Some just tune your eye.

MullenLowe Group

Creative Director · 2014–2015

Leading 35 people through internal change. Deciding faster, holding on to what made each idea worth the fight.

Liquid Digital Agency

Executive Creative Director · 2014

50 people, PepsiCo, BBVA, Claro. Connecting speed, structure, and creative quality without losing judgment.

Wunderman

Creative Director · 2010–2013

Lima wasn't a smaller version of what I'd seen abroad. It was different terrain. Led the digital transformation of Movistar.

AKQA

Copywriter · 2006–2009 · New York

Nike+, Visa, USPS. Learning from Rei Inamoto that creativity didn't have to stop at communication.

Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Copywriter · 2004–2006 · Miami

One of the agency's first interactive copywriters. The rules hadn't been written yet and you had to invent them as you went.