Irene Martins ©

Design lead 13+

I’m a Design Lead and designer, based in Amsterdam. Worked with Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo, Woven Capital (Toyota) and MDL Fonds. With 13+ years between agency and in-house, I craft brands, products and campaigns by creating identities and systems that hold them together. Today, I’m also leading the people behind them.
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Global innovation Summit Tokyo '26, Woven Capital (Toyota), 2024

The scenario

A summit about what comes next: the room where AI would meet the future of mobility. Woven Capital is Toyota's growth-stage venture fund - the part of the business placing bets on what mobility becomes next. For its Global CEO Summit in Tokyo, the fund needed a cohesive event identity, built to meet high expectations on a short timeline: an identity that could hold its own in a room of founders, investors and Toyota leadership, all gathered around the same questions: what's next, what it means for the future of how the world moves and who is building it?

The brief came with a tension built in. Toyota carries one of the most recognisable brand systems in the world - decades of equity, rigour and rules. Woven Capital needed to honour all of it, while making clear it isn't a heritage play. It's the bet on what comes next.

Woven Capital summit identity in application

The approach

A connected identity system was built - logo, palette, typography, texture and motion - designed to behave as one language across every surface the summit touched. Landing page, speaker cards, email signatures and print. Each piece had to feel like the same conversation, picked up mid-sentence. The strategic move was deciding where Toyota ended and Woven began. The system didn't sit on top of the main brand or besides it - it extended from it, towards the future. A system that earned its consistency from how rigorously it was built, not from how loud it was. Built once. Read fluently everywhere.

Woven Capital summit visual

Impact

The system held the room. Across the landing page, speaker cards, print and signage, the same visual language carried the summit end to end, giving founders, investors and Toyota leadership one continuous experience to gather around. It positioned Woven Capital as a serious voice in the future of mobility - not a satellite of its parent brand, but its clearest expression of where the company is headed. Toyota's heritage stayed present without holding the room back, proof that what comes next can still speak fluently in the language of what came before.

Woven Capital summit visual
Woven Capital summit visual
Woven Capital subway advertising
Woven Capital summit speaker card

The undeniable motion

The summit was built on three subjects we refused to let sit still - AI, the future, and mobility. Motion wasn't a layer of the identity, but the language it was written in. We built a language of forward motion - one that moved like it knew the way. An identity for a summit that wasn't asking if things were changing, but how fast and towards what. That dynamism held the connective tissue of the whole system, carrying the same logic across every format the summit touched.

Woven Capital summit landing page

A conscious lifestyle, Kuali

Kuali aluminium water bottle held in both hands

Product's north star

For those who value health, practicality and sustainability, Kuali Water is a sustainable-driven bottled water brand from Mexico that reimagines everyday hydration as an eco-conscious lifestyle choice. The brand's core idea is simple: replace single-use plastic water bottles with refillable aluminum bottles, encouraging consumers to refill, reuse, and recycle while reducing plastic waste.

Beyond bottled water, Kuali is a brand with its heart on commitment to sustainability and social impact: it's a movement for environmental responsibility.

Kuali boxed bottle sitting in a bicycle basket

Brand philosophy

Founded in 2020 and by packaging purified water in aluminum containers (infinitely recyclable and designed for repeated use), Kuali aims to reduce the environmental damage caused by disposable plastic bottles. Beyond its packaging innovation, the company reinforces its environmental mission by donating 1% of its sales to environmental organizations (including initiatives focused on marine and wildlife conservation). This positions the brand not just as a beverage company, but as part of a broader movement toward responsible consumption and environmental stewardship.

Kuali bottle worn on the body with beaded necklaces

Impact

Kuali is no longer just a bottle on a shelf - it's a system hotels and restaurants are opting into. Every partnership feeds back into the brand's environmental commitment: each hotel or restaurant that joins sponsors the adoption of a whale through Kuali's conservation partners, turning a business decision into a certified act of environmental stewardship. What started as a reusable aluminum bottle is becoming infrastructure for how hospitality brands rethink hydration - one refill, one partner, one whale at a time.

Kuali packaging and bottle in a still-life scene