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Creative Direction Brand Strategy Normal Finance
Creative Director & Brand Strategist
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Jake Penzato / Normal Finance
Brand Strategy /
Visual Identity /
Guerrilla Marketing /
Adobe Creative Suite /
Figma /
DeFi & Web3 /
Content Systems /
Live Event Activations /
Email Marketing /
Social Analytics /
Brand Strategy /
Visual Identity /
Guerrilla Marketing /
Adobe Creative Suite /
Figma /
DeFi & Web3 /
Content Systems /
Live Event Activations /
Email Marketing /
Social Analytics /
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Meridian 2025
Event · Branding · 100K+ Impressions
Meridian 2025
Physical merch, branded activations & social management. 100K+ impressions that week.
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Normal Finance
Launch Campaign
Campaign · Jan–Feb 2026
Launch Campaign
The official product launch. Full creative direction across every channel.
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Normal
Talks
Show Production · YouTube · 2026
Normal Talks
A branded talk show making crypto human. 3 episodes, weekly cadence.
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About
Jake
Bio · Skills · Timeline
About Jake Penzato
Creative by instinct. Strategic by design.
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"Make crypto normal.
Live extraordinarily."
Normal Finance Brand Manifesto
Case Studies 2022 to Present
Work that
moves people.
Three years of brand building at Normal Finance. Real campaigns, real outcomes, real stakes.
4Case Studies
3+Years
$400K+AUM Grown
112K+Impressions
01
Meridian 2025
Where the brand went physical for the first time.
Event BrandingMerchSocial
02
Launch Campaign
Building Normal in public from zero to live across every platform.
CampaignAmbassador SystemMultiplatform
03
Normal Talks
A branded talk show making crypto human 3 episodes, weekly cadence.
Show ProductionThumbnail DesignYouTube
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The Brand System
The visual identity and architecture everything else is built on.
Brand IdentityVisual SystemStrategy
𝕏 Twitter 32 days
Instagram 30 days
The Normal Finance launch campaign marked the moment the platform went public and the creative strategy had to match the weight of that moment. The goal wasn't just awareness. It was to make the launch feel inevitable, like something the community had been waiting for, not something being sold to them.
Three content pillars drove the campaign. Product storytelling introduced the platform through clean mockup graphics and sharp copy "Own the Market. In One Click." The global ambassador series put real community members front and center, each paired with their country's landmark, making Normal feel international from day one. And brand art like Eau de Index used unexpected creative to build intrigue around upcoming features before they launched.
Across X and Instagram combined, the campaign generated over 112K impressions and reached nearly 12K unique accounts with 85.7% of Instagram views coming from non-followers, confirming the campaign was driving genuine discovery, not just feeding existing community.
Campaign Strategy
Content Design
Ambassador Program
Product Marketing
Brand Art
Multiplatform
Eau de Index luxury fragrance language to tease Normal's upcoming indexing feature. This stopped the scroll by looking nothing like crypto.
[ Drop brand system visuals here color palette, typography, logo, guidelines ]
When Normal Finance was being built, it didn't have a brand it had an idea. The challenge was to turn a DeFi platform into something people could feel: a movement with a personality, a point of view, and a reason to exist beyond the product.
The result was a three-pillar brand architecture designed to work at every level. Movement: "Make crypto normal" the mission. Lifestyle: "Live extraordinarily" the aspiration. Product: "Trade anything, index everything" the utility. Every piece of content, every campaign, every activation maps back to one of these three pillars.
The visual identity was built in Figma and executed across Adobe Creative Suite a system rigorous enough to be consistent across five platforms, flexible enough to evolve over three years without ever losing coherence.
Brand Architecture
Visual Identity
Voice & Tone
Figma
Adobe CC
Systems Design
DeFi / Web3