30+
Years of Craft

Creative Direction · Digital · Print

About
Me.

Carolina Loreto — Creative Director with 30+ years of experience building luxury travel and hospitality brands, combining in-house leadership roles with an independent creative practice.

Open to remote Creative, Design, and Photo Retouching roles.

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About
Carolina Loreto

Twelve years of in-house Creative Director roles across Silversea, Crystal, American Queen Voyages, Atlas, and Victory — alongside an independent creative practice supporting agency and consumer brand work in parallel with that leadership track.

Brand Strategy
Repositioned luxury cruise brands to capture post-pandemic demand. Victory · Atlas · American Queen
Creative Direction
Led campaigns from brief to launch across digital, print, and video. Victory · Atlas · American Queen · Four Seasons
Photo Retouching
Spanning luxury travel, QSR, healthcare, and retail. Silversea · Crystal · Four Seasons · Burger King · Popeyes · Aetna · Payless
Editorial Design
Luxury print collateral — ads, brochures, flyers, direct mail. Silversea · Crystal · Oster · HBO
Website Direction
Directed three full website redesigns from UX through launch. Victory · Atlas · Crystal
Photography Direction
Directed high-profile shoots to produce luxury brand visuals. Atlas · Four Seasons · Silversea
Email & CRM
Data-driven campaigns delivering 15–20% engagement lifts. Victory · Silversea · Payless
Digital Asset Implementation
Built DAM systems that cut asset retrieval time by 40%. Crystal · Atlas · Four Seasons
Marketing Operations
New workflows boosting cross-team efficiency by 30%. Atlas · American Queen · Victory
Team Leadership
Built and led multidisciplinary creative teams across global brands. Victory · Atlas · American Queen
Trade Marketing
Print and trade campaigns aligned to market positioning. Silversea · American Queen · Oster
Sales Enablement
Creative assets tied to a 20% increase in bookings. Victory · Payless · American Queen
My Journey

Built a career.
Built a life.
Built a family.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Arrived in the United States in 2011 with four children, little English, and an unshakeable belief that creativity could build a life anywhere in the world.

Every challenge became a reason to keep going. Step by step, project by project — from agency work to leading global luxury brands.

1997

Where It Began

W&D Comunicación Creativa · Caracas

1998 – 2002

Graphic Designer

PDVSA Petroleos de Venezuela · Caracas

2003 – 2011

Senior Graphic Designer

Nature Sunshine Products · Caracas

2011

A New Beginning

Venezuela → United States

2011 – 2013

Graphic Designer

Trancarga Intl. Airways · Miami

2012 – 2014

Graphic Designer

Urbana Creative Agency

2013 – 2014

Graphic Designer

Goal Advertising · Miami · Full-time

2014 – 2017

Digital Media Specialist

Silversea Cruises

2017 – 2021

Graphic Designer

Crystal Cruises

2020 → Active

Creative

Kreative Content · Miami

Independent creative partner since 2020. On-site photo studio support for Popeyes' "That Look" campaign — winner of the D&AD Graphite Pencil and a Cannes Lions. Burger King's "Christmas in July" campaign, shot during COVID. Plus regular photo retouching for Aetna Health and email/social/web design for Payless, across the years.

2021 – 2023

Creative Director

American Queen Voyages

Promoted from Creative Manager to Creative Director. Partnered with agency MRM to lead the full rebrand across digital, print, and video. Brand awareness up 25%. Led NautiCode — ANA B2 Gold, New York Festivals Finalist, Gerety Awards.

2023 – 2024

Creative Director

Atlas Ocean Voyages

Led two full rebrands in partnership with a creative agency. Website direction, channel alignment, DAM implementation, and upper management presentations. Cross-team efficiency up 30%.

2024 → Active

Creative Partner

Atlas Ocean Voyages

Transitioned to an independent partnership, continuing to sustain brand direction across digital and print.

2024 – 2026

Creative Director

Victory Cruise Lines

Established the full brand identity from inception — logo, guidelines, website, email programs, and campaign photography. Engagement up 20%.

2024 – 2026

Creative Partner

Four Seasons Yacht

Branding, print, DAM, and trade marketing for one of the world's most anticipated ultra-luxury yacht brands.

2026 · Active

Creative Partner

Elite Island Resorts · Antigua

Website UX/UI across 21 pages with CSS handoff, a 36-page direct mail piece, and a full campaign identity. Three scopes. One creative vision.

2026 · Active

Creative Partner

Ponant

Print brochures, flyers, email templates, PowerPoints, and Canva templates.

2026 →

Creative Director

Independent

Available for Creative Direction, Brand Strategy, UX/UI, and Editorial Design. Built for brands that demand craft.

Everything I built was for them. Every brand, every campaign, every late night. A new country. A new language. One belief: whoever sets their mind to it, achieves it.
DN AA

my DNA2

Four children. Four initials. My entire reason.

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