MASTERCARD

Evolving a global identity without losing what makes it Mastercard.

Across eight years of global Mastercard programs, I developed a deep understanding of the brand system and how its core principles could flex across different audiences, contexts, and experiences.

I led creative direction across leadership conferences, product demonstrations, brand experiences, and global events, developing distinct visual expressions around each program’s audience, theme, and business objective. Rather than treating the identity as a fixed set of rules, I looked for opportunities to reinterpret its visual language and introduce something new while preserving the cues that make Mastercard immediately recognizable.

That meant understanding where the brand could stretch and where it needed to remain consistent: how typography, color, imagery, composition, motion, and graphic elements could be recombined or pushed to create a fresh point of view without losing the underlying identity.

I directed multidisciplinary teams across design, motion, digital, presentations, environmental, and live-show, carrying that thinking from initial concept through production and onsite execution. Across programs and markets, the goal was consistent: create something specific to the moment without making the brand feel different from itself.

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Finance

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KEANE.WORKS®

Ideas, Systems, Experiences

© 2026 Kevin Keane. All rights reserved.

KEANE.WORKS®

Ideas, Systems, Experiences

© 2026 Kevin Keane. All rights reserved.

KEANE.WORKS®

Ideas, Systems, Experiences

© 2026 Kevin Keane. All rights reserved.