DL RESEARCH
︎︎︎ Art Direction
︎︎︎ 3D Modelling
DL Research is a DeFi research company operating within LlamaCorp. Through research reports, clients showcase new technologies, current operational systems, innovations, and future market trends to the financial and technology sectors.
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Animated piece of artwork used for Konts Report.
︎︎︎ Editorial
The creation process involves multiple stages—content development, editing, and design—transforming complex information into accessible, engaging materials that reflect the technology's vision and purpose.
Check all the reports here ︎︎︎
DL NEWS
︎︎︎ Editorial Illustration Scheme 2026 (3/3)
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The third and final illustration scheme for the article emphasized highlighting image quality and intensifying the use of color to maximize search engine recognition, from an SEO perspective.
Furthermore, this time the images were prepared to eventually be transformed into animations.
See a selection of editorial pieces ︎︎︎
The third and final illustration scheme for the article emphasized highlighting image quality and intensifying the use of color to maximize search engine recognition, from an SEO perspective.
Furthermore, this time the images were prepared to eventually be transformed into animations.
Furthermore, this time the images were prepared to eventually be transformed into animations.
See a selection of editorial pieces ︎︎︎
DL NEWS
︎︎︎ Content Manager System
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The CMS for DL News and DL Research was a long-term project to streamline the management of all text and images across the publication. Thanks to a customized content platform, designed according to our own organizational guidelines and hosted on our servers, the company significantly reduced costs. In addition to providing a much more agile tool that met the needs of the entire team, it facilitated and accelerated the company's overall production.
The CMS for DL News and DL Research was a long-term project to streamline the management of all text and images across the publication. Thanks to a customized content platform, designed according to our own organizational guidelines and hosted on our servers, the company significantly reduced costs. In addition to providing a much more agile tool that met the needs of the entire team, it facilitated and accelerated the company's overall production.
DJH
︎︎︎Brand
DJH, an Article19 project, adopted constructivist design over conventional corporate illustrations to convey a serious, intellectually rigorous brand identity appropriate to the subject's complexity, the global internet workforce.
See DJH Brandbook ︎
︎︎︎Website
︎︎︎Digital Justice Every Day, Manifesto ︎︎︎
Digital Justice Every Day is the manifesto articulating DJH's central concern: the emergence of labor issues within the digital and internet economy. Adopting a dual perspective that addresses both digital rights advocates and the global internet workforce, the document establishes a theoretical framework and proposes strategies for improved global labor conditions.
DL NEWS
︎︎︎ Editorial Illustration Scheme 2025 (2/3)
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The second illustration strategy fundamentally shifted toward SEO optimization through a Shutterstock partnership. Engagement analysis identified four key visual drivers: distinct silhouettes, high-contrast colors, prominent faces, and integrated branding. These protocols, alongside content and editorial SEO measures, accelerated market penetration in DeFi.
See a selection of editorial pieces ︎︎︎
The second illustration strategy fundamentally shifted toward SEO optimization through a Shutterstock partnership. Engagement analysis identified four key visual drivers: distinct silhouettes, high-contrast colors, prominent faces, and integrated branding. These protocols, alongside content and editorial SEO measures, accelerated market penetration in DeFi.
See a selection of editorial pieces ︎︎︎
DL NEWS
︎︎︎ Editorial Illustration Scheme 2023 (1/3)
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The initial illustration strategy posed a critical challenge: establishing the company's brand identity while navigating intricate copyright constraints. Within DeFi—a sector characterized by opacity—source images of key figures were frequently unavailable or inadequate in quality. Legal counsel determined that transforming existing images into original works offered the optimal solution. While this approach yielded complex, occasionally over-abstract compositions, it enabled a seamless and visually compelling launch phase, which effectively illustrates the complexity and absurdity of the internet's perpetually hybridized landscape.
The initial illustration strategy posed a critical challenge: establishing the company's brand identity while navigating intricate copyright constraints. Within DeFi—a sector characterized by opacity—source images of key figures were frequently unavailable or inadequate in quality. Legal counsel determined that transforming existing images into original works offered the optimal solution. While this approach yielded complex, occasionally over-abstract compositions, it enabled a seamless and visually compelling launch phase, which effectively illustrates the complexity and absurdity of the internet's perpetually hybridized landscape.
SURVEILLANCE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ︎︎︎
︎︎︎ Art Direction
︎︎︎ Web
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The visual concept behind Surveillance in the Anthropocene sought to evoke the cold, lonely beauty of Chile's southern territories, positioning the viewer simultaneously as both pursuer and pursued.
The reports we produced depict different implementations of surveillance against these indigenous groups, technologies such as social media monitoring, drones flying over the territories, heat detection cameras as well as media exclusion zones in which only the police is allowed to register events.
Funded by Digital Defenders Partnership Fund
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The visual concept behind Surveillance in the Anthropocene sought to evoke the cold, lonely beauty of Chile's southern territories, positioning the viewer simultaneously as both pursuer and pursued.
The reports we produced depict different implementations of surveillance against these indigenous groups, technologies such as social media monitoring, drones flying over the territories, heat detection cameras as well as media exclusion zones in which only the police is allowed to register events.
Funded by Digital Defenders Partnership Fund
Funded by Digital Defenders Partnership Fund
GLOBAL GATHERING
︎︎︎Brand
︎︎︎Physical Assets
︎︎︎Merch
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Global Gathering is the annual event that convenes the digital rights community in Estoril, Portugal. The brand and its application across various surfaces, objects, and media needed to convey energy, movement, spontaneity, and cohesion.
Team CommUNITY and Article19 Based project, nurtures and supports global networks operating at the intersection of technology and rights.
See GG 2025 Update ︎
See GG 2024 Brandbook ︎
Global Gathering is the annual event that convenes the digital rights community in Estoril, Portugal. The brand and its application across various surfaces, objects, and media needed to convey energy, movement, spontaneity, and cohesion.
Team CommUNITY and Article19 Based project, nurtures and supports global networks operating at the intersection of technology and rights.
See GG 2025 Update ︎
See GG 2024 Brandbook ︎
Team CommUNITY and Article19 Based project, nurtures and supports global networks operating at the intersection of technology and rights.
See GG 2025 Update ︎
See GG 2024 Brandbook ︎
JOIA
︎︎︎Brand
︎︎︎Physical Assets
︎︎︎Merch
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JOIA is a design studio in Santiago, Chile, that transformed from a street art magazine into a clothing and sporting goods brand. As magazine sales declined, we identified two audiences: our loyal existing customers and new potential buyers seeking fresh offerings. We expanded our product line by inviting former magazine contributors and artists to collaborate.
During production, we pursued a dual objective: to revitalize the content through experimental layouts that functioned as expressive forms in themselves, transforming each page into an autonomous work of art. This approach elevated both the featured authors and the studio's creative vision.
JOIA Editorial work ︎︎︎
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The magazine became a creative lab, producing visual content for product design and marketing. We also launched JOIAMARKET, an online brand/platform selling all our products. This strategy worked—the studio now sustains itself successfully.
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JOIA is a design studio in Santiago, Chile, that transformed from a street art magazine into a clothing and sporting goods brand. As magazine sales declined, we identified two audiences: our loyal existing customers and new potential buyers seeking fresh offerings. We expanded our product line by inviting former magazine contributors and artists to collaborate.
During production, we pursued a dual objective: to revitalize the content through experimental layouts that functioned as expressive forms in themselves, transforming each page into an autonomous work of art. This approach elevated both the featured authors and the studio's creative vision.
During production, we pursued a dual objective: to revitalize the content through experimental layouts that functioned as expressive forms in themselves, transforming each page into an autonomous work of art. This approach elevated both the featured authors and the studio's creative vision.
JOIA Editorial work ︎︎︎
The magazine became a creative lab, producing visual content for product design and marketing. We also launched JOIAMARKET, an online brand/platform selling all our products. This strategy worked—the studio now sustains itself successfully.
MONOCHROMA
︎︎︎ Art Direction
︎︎︎ Website
Monochroma faced a typical challenge for emerging design studios: unifying diverse client work under a singular, distinctive visual identity and platform. This demanded a bold approach—subsuming individual brand elements within a cohesive aesthetic that expressed the studio's own personality. Fortunately, most clients operated within the Web3 ecosystem and embraced the neon aesthetic characteristic of hacker culture.
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EN / Chilean designer based in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he currently works as Lead Designer at DefiLlama Research, a department within DefiLlama, where he is responsible for the design of editorial products, brand management, web experience, and other aspects such as QA and systematizing of graphic resources.
He studied Industrial Design and Graphic Design at the University of Valparaíso and later specialized in Service Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He has previous experience in publishing houses, design studios, advertising agencies, and NGOs. He also regularly collaborates on cultural and artistic projects in Chile and Europe, both as a creator and consultant.
Since 2022 he has worked as a senior designer within the company as part of the team that would build the startup DL News from scratch and then DL Research (later DefiLlama Research) as a designer, in charge of the production and systematization of the digital components of the medium and later the design of the company's CMS, where all the content and resources were then managed and published.
He studied Industrial Design and Graphic Design at the University of Valparaíso and later specialized in Service Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He has previous experience in publishing houses, design studios, advertising agencies, and NGOs. He also regularly collaborates on cultural and artistic projects in Chile and Europe, both as a creator and consultant.
Since 2022 he has worked as a senior designer within the company as part of the team that would build the startup DL News from scratch and then DL Research (later DefiLlama Research) as a designer, in charge of the production and systematization of the digital components of the medium and later the design of the company's CMS, where all the content and resources were then managed and published.
ES / Diseñador chileno radicado en Santiago de Compostela, España. Actualmente se desempeña como Lead Designer en DefiLlama Research, una división de DefiLlama, donde es responsable del diseño de productos editoriales, la gestión de marca, la experiencia web y otros aspectos como el control de calidad (QA) y la sistematización de recursos gráficos.
Estudió Diseño Industrial y Diseño Gráfico en la Universidad de Valparaíso y posteriormente se especializó en Diseño de Servicios en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cuenta con experiencia previa en editoriales, estudios de diseño, agencias de publicidad y organizaciones no gubernamentales. Además, colabora regularmente en proyectos culturales y artísticos en Chile y Europa, tanto como creador como consultor.
Desde 2022 ha trabajado como diseñador senior dentro de la compañía, formando parte del equipo que construyó desde cero la startup DL News y posteriormente DL Research (más tarde DefiLlama Research). En ese rol estuvo a cargo de la producción y sistematización de los componentes digitales del medio, así como del diseño del CMS de la empresa, plataforma desde la cual se gestionaban y publicaban todos los contenidos y recursos.
Estudió Diseño Industrial y Diseño Gráfico en la Universidad de Valparaíso y posteriormente se especializó en Diseño de Servicios en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cuenta con experiencia previa en editoriales, estudios de diseño, agencias de publicidad y organizaciones no gubernamentales. Además, colabora regularmente en proyectos culturales y artísticos en Chile y Europa, tanto como creador como consultor.
Desde 2022 ha trabajado como diseñador senior dentro de la compañía, formando parte del equipo que construyó desde cero la startup DL News y posteriormente DL Research (más tarde DefiLlama Research). En ese rol estuvo a cargo de la producción y sistematización de los componentes digitales del medio, así como del diseño del CMS de la empresa, plataforma desde la cual se gestionaban y publicaban todos los contenidos y recursos.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
︎︎↳ Service Design Diploma Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
↳ Industrial and Graphic
Design Specialization Courses
School of Architecture and Design. University of Valparaíso, Chile
↳ Integral Design B.A.
School of Architecture and Design. University of Valparaíso, Chile
LANGUAGE (IN ORDER OF PROFICIENCY)
↳ Spanish (Native)
↳ English
↳ Portuguese
CIVIL INFORMATION
↳ Currently a legal resident in Spain under a Digital Nomad Visa authorization. Open to move within the country.
CONTACT
↳ Email: andrestapianunez@gmail.com
↳ Telegram: @AATIAPRSEND
︎︎↳ Service Design Diploma Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
↳ Industrial and Graphic
Design Specialization Courses
School of Architecture and Design. University of Valparaíso, Chile
↳ Integral Design B.A.
School of Architecture and Design. University of Valparaíso, Chile
LANGUAGE (IN ORDER OF PROFICIENCY)
↳ Spanish (Native)
↳ English
↳ Portuguese
CIVIL INFORMATION
↳ Currently a legal resident in Spain under a Digital Nomad Visa authorization. Open to move within the country.
CONTACT
↳ Email: andrestapianunez@gmail.com
↳ Telegram: @AATIAPRSEND
RECENT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
↳ 2026 DefiLlama Research
DeFi Research Company
Position: Lead Designer
Main Tasks: Organize and implement the transition of DL Research to Defillama. Prepare master files, create prompts for collaborative use, and promotional material for the company's new structure.
↳ 2022 - 2025 DL News / DL Research
Media outlet and DeFi Research Company
Position: Lead Designer
Main Tasks: Product design; Editorial products management; Art Direction; Image publishing protocol design; QA; Commercial content management
↳ 2020 - 2022 JOIA Magazine
Art Magazine and Creative Studio
Position: Design Director
Main Tasks: Creative Direction; Art Direction; Editorial Design; 3D and 2D Animation: Physical Production Supervision; Supplier Management
↳ 2019 - 2020 Editorial Planeta
The largest Spanish-speaking publisher
Position: Senior Art Director, Producer
Main Tasks: Art Direction; Editorial Design; Supplier Management
↳ 2017 - 2019 FELICIDAD
Advertising Agency, Design and branding studio specialized in communication for cultural and government projects.
Position: Senior Art Director, Creative
Mains Tasks: Art Direction; Editorial Design; 2D Animation
↳ 2011 - 2016 PORTA
Advertising Agency
Position: Designer
Main Tasks: Art Direction; UI Designer
↳ 2026 DefiLlama Research
DeFi Research Company
Position: Lead Designer
Main Tasks: Organize and implement the transition of DL Research to Defillama. Prepare master files, create prompts for collaborative use, and promotional material for the company's new structure.
↳ 2022 - 2025 DL News / DL Research
Media outlet and DeFi Research Company
Position: Lead Designer
Main Tasks: Product design; Editorial products management; Art Direction; Image publishing protocol design; QA; Commercial content management
↳ 2020 - 2022 JOIA Magazine
Art Magazine and Creative Studio
Position: Design Director
Main Tasks: Creative Direction; Art Direction; Editorial Design; 3D and 2D Animation: Physical Production Supervision; Supplier Management
↳ 2019 - 2020 Editorial Planeta
The largest Spanish-speaking publisher
Position: Senior Art Director, Producer
Main Tasks: Art Direction; Editorial Design; Supplier Management
↳ 2017 - 2019 FELICIDAD
Advertising Agency, Design and branding studio specialized in communication for cultural and government projects.
Position: Senior Art Director, Creative
Mains Tasks: Art Direction; Editorial Design; 2D Animation
↳ 2011 - 2016 PORTA
Advertising Agency
Position: Designer
Main Tasks: Art Direction; UI Designer