As a Brastonian™ (Brazil-born, Boston-raised) I spent around a decade in the marketing field organizing and running events, conceptualizing campaigns, customer outreach, etc. As a freelance graphic designer, a personal brand both constitutes the mechanics of being a professional as well as the work that is reflective of those mechanics. The reflection of my identity as a human includes of a graphic designer; a creative. Marcos Paulo Design: The Other Marco Polo reflects three things: my Brazilian heritage (name in Portuguese), Italian heritage (great grandparents immigrated to Brazil from Italy), and common knowledge of the great Marco Polo.