Roberto
Prado

Designer & Founder · Strategy, Brand, Product & AI-built Software · Monterrey, México

Designer and founder. I take products from strategy and brand to software in production: I define what gets built, design it, ship it with AI coding agents and keep it running. Eight years running a two-person studio, plus co-founding MADE and VOLUMA and partnering at Waves.

Details

Based in
Monterrey, México
Timezone
UTC−6, Central Time with no daylight saving · full overlap with US business hours; my mornings overlap India’s evening
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (fluent reading and listening, strong writing, conversational speaking)
Focus
Product design, brand, AI-built software

Experience

Co-founder, Design & Web — sopadeletras®

2018 — Present

A two-person creative studio I run with Lilian Balderas: strategy, branding, audiovisual, editorial and web. Everything the studio ships, the two of us made. I also lead the web and product side and run the finances.

  • Brand, editorial and campaign work for UDEM, MARCO, PUMA, Casa de la Grana, NEXT University, RECUA and SlowBurn.
  • Built and operate Voxoy’s production system, a parcel and PO box company: 1,039 active memberships and 3,400–4,600 packages a month across six pickup points.
  • Built a multi-tenant point-of-sale SaaS for pharmacies (Farmalat, for LAATEC), plus 20+ client sites and internal tools on Cloudflare, from brand to deploy.

Co-founder — MADE

2024 — Present

Art and design platform behind MADE Week in Monterrey.

  • Grew MADE Week from 38 events and 2,773 attendees (2025) to 70+ events, 80+ venues and 7,000+ attendees (2026), coordinating 50+ volunteers. Sponsors included Heineken and Tec de Monterrey.

Co-founder — VOLUMA

2026 — Present

A morning workout where the coach is also the DJ: my brother Hugo Prado leads the session from the decks, mixing live. The first edition took place on 12 September 2026 at Backstage MTY, with two sessions of 100 people each, and it’s planned as a three-edition season. Sponsors include Audi and Lululemon.

  • Naming, brand, site and launch content.
  • Visuals for the live show across nine surfaces (three screens and six banners), plus the lighting cues.
  • An interactive room: a 3.5 × 3 m LED wall with a camera that reads whoever stands in front of it, so their body plays the image and the sound at once. It ran on its own all night and sent every photo to a live gallery.

Partner — Waves

2026 — Present

An immersive studio in Monterrey for yoga, breathwork and listening sessions, with hi-fi sound and visuals projected all around the room. Lilian and I are partners: we handle the brand, the site and the content.

Selected work

VoxoyMembership and package system in production↗ Casa de la GranaIdentity for the cochineal museum in Oaxaca↗ PUMA Cali OG CanvasSocial media campaign↗ MADE WeekBrand, site and operations for a 10-day city festival↗ DÍA* AmarilloBrand and campaign for UDEM’s student festival↗ Convergencias / DivergenciasExhibition catalogue for MARCO↗ FarmalatMulti-tenant pharmacy POS↗

Awards

IDA GoldPUMA Cali OG Canvas, social media campaign · 2025
IDA SilverCasa de la Grana, brand identity · 2025
Premio Nacional de DiseñoFinalist, visual communication · Casa de la Grana · 2025
Diseña MéxicoPremio Nacional de Diseño, visual communication · Cerveza Jimena campaign · 2023
CLAP AwardsThree selections: PUMA, Casa de la Grana, Cerveza Jimena · 2023–2025
Anuaria MéxicoSelection · Cerveza Jimena · 2023

Skills

With

AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex). I direct, review and ship; I don’t write code by hand

What it runs on

Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, KV, Supabase, Stripe, Resend

Design

Brand identity, editorial, web design, interactive experiences, photo and video

Tools

Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Framer, WordPress

Education

B.A. in Graphic Design and Strategic Marketing — CEDIM

2024

Interests

I write and release music as Prado Fox. Melancohol (EP, 2023) is on Spotify and Apple Music.