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I love how design can inspire change and transform societies.
DesignOps & Teacher
Global
Natalia Zuluaga
Natalia is originally from Colombia, where she worked for various design agencies before moving to London in 2012. With over ten years of design experience, she is the misfit graphic designer who loves bridging design, creativity, and business into a seamless ecosystem. In her previous role, she built from scratch a creative team of 20 people in four years, where she managed and directed projects that covered many creative disciplines — branding, print, digital, advertising, animation, video, and social.
At Shillington, you can find her teaching the Sunday Part-time class in London and leading various project teams across disciplines and campuses.
What do you love about design?
I love how design can inspire change and transform societies.
Why do you teach?
Throughout my career I’ve met a lot of amazing people that have mentored me and helped me become a better design professional. Teaching is my way of enabling and nurturing designers to thrive in the never-ending complex environment we live in.
Tell us about your design career outside of Shillington.
Outside Shillington I divide my time between mentoring designers in different programmes—mainly Kerning The Gap, a community advocating for getting more women in leadership roles within the design industry. And working as a strategic design management consultant for small and medium organisations in London.
I’m also a member of the Board of Advisors of the DMI: Design Management Institute—a global non-profit organisation connecting, promoting, and elevating the role of Design, Design Management and Design Innovation in business, culture and society.
What or who are you loving right now?
I keep my creative mind alive by reading science fiction. I’m currently reading the Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin.
If you were a typeface, what would you be?
Neue Machina from Pangram Pangram Foundry
What’s your favourite blog?
Brand New from UnderConsideration is my all-time favourite branding blog,
I love how design can inspire change and transform societies.
DesignOps & Teacher
Global
Natalia Zuluaga
Natalia is originally from Colombia, where she worked for various design agencies before moving to London in 2012. With over ten years of design experience, she is the misfit graphic designer who loves bridging design, creativity, and business into a seamless ecosystem. In her previous role, she built from scratch a creative team of 20 people in four years, where she managed and directed projects that covered many creative disciplines — branding, print, digital, advertising, animation, video, and social.
At Shillington, you can find her teaching the Sunday Part-time class in London and leading various project teams across disciplines and campuses.
What do you love about design?
I love how design can inspire change and transform societies.
Why do you teach?
Throughout my career I’ve met a lot of amazing people that have mentored me and helped me become a better design professional. Teaching is my way of enabling and nurturing designers to thrive in the never-ending complex environment we live in.
Tell us about your design career outside of Shillington.
Outside Shillington I divide my time between mentoring designers in different programmes—mainly Kerning The Gap, a community advocating for getting more women in leadership roles within the design industry. And working as a strategic design management consultant for small and medium organisations in London.
I’m also a member of the Board of Advisors of the DMI: Design Management Institute—a global non-profit organisation connecting, promoting, and elevating the role of Design, Design Management and Design Innovation in business, culture and society.
What or who are you loving right now?
I keep my creative mind alive by reading science fiction. I’m currently reading the Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin.
If you were a typeface, what would you be?
Neue Machina from Pangram Pangram Foundry
What’s your favourite blog?
Brand New from UnderConsideration is my all-time favourite branding blog,
Andrew Shillington
Founder, Global
Anthony Wood
Managing Director, Global
Clare Terry
Director, Australia
Shanti Sparrow
Director of Teaching, Global
Natalia Zuluaga
DesignOps & Teacher, Global
Sydney Ligouri
Head, New York
John Palowski
Head of Course Content, Global
Chris Norman
Head of Online, Southern Hemisphere
Clay Allison
Head of Experience, Global
Alex Daley
Experience Manager, United States
Ella Shillington
Experience Manager, Australia
Meg Bathard
Experience Assistant, United Kingdom
Sara Mazzoni
Head of Marketing & Communications, Global
Oli Stevenson
Marketing & Communications Lead, Global
Eden Lim
Marketing & Communications Assistant, Australia
Laura Walton
Marketing & Communications Assistant, New York
George Simkin
Lead Teacher, London
Kim Melvin
Lead Teacher, New York
Nick Smith
Lead Teacher, United Kingdom
Nick Bailey
Lead Teacher, Brisbane
Mehul Patel
Graphic Design Teacher, Manchester
Spencer Harrison
Graphic Design Teacher, Melbourne
Amy Prus
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Maja Cule
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Frankie Young
Teacher & Special Projects, Online
Andy Judd
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Jamie Lawson
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Wayne Smith
Graphic Design Teacher, Melbourne
Lizzie Curtis
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Adam Busby
Graphic Design Teacher, Brisbane
Jimmy Muldoon
Teacher & Special Projects, New York
Alan Barba
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Bonnie Eichelberger
Graphic Design Teacher, Melbourne
Dan Wilson
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Maaya Lad
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Dave Bird
Graphic Design Teacher, Manchester
Hilary Archer
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Tina Victoria Afshar
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Ed Cornish
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Simon Wiltshire
Graphic Design Teacher, Sydney
Mitch Reyes
Graphic Design Teacher, Brisbane
Jack Trotman
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Mary Faber
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Fiona Martin
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Gabrielle White
Graphic Design Teacher, Brisbane
Johnny Boardman
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Shrenik Ganatra
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Olivia Chen
Graphic Design Teacher, Sydney
Kody Pangburn
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Emma Tobin
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Annette Dennis
Teacher & Special Projects, Online
Katie Mihailovits
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Rachel Broaders
Graphic Design Teacher, Online
Missy Dempsey
Graphic Design Teacher, Sydney
Mark Ellis
Graphic Design Teacher, London
Lovish Saini
Graphic Design Teacher, Manchester
Cathy Sison
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Michael Zhang
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Benny Hinman
Graphic Design Teacher, Sydney
Tim King
Graphic Design Teacher, Sydney
Kym Rohman
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Thiago Eichner
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Tessa Canon
Graphic Design Teacher, New York
Nathan Millard
Graphic Design Teacher, Melbourne
Jaimee-Lee Field
Graphic Design Teacher, Sydney