After an auspicious start in the early days of the internet industry, helming the Financial Times Media & Telecoms online division back in the late nineties, Miguel Ripoll worked for a few years as a Creative Director in London for some of the UK’s first full service digital agencies (EyeToEye, Intervid, Vivum Media) building ground-breaking websites for the likes of Arthur Andersen, MoneyWorld, BP, and Liberty, the iconic department store.
Between 2000 and 2021 he had his own independent studio, producing projects for global brands (Santander Bank, Canal +, Xinova, British Telecom, ITV), top universities (Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, Princeton, Sciences Po Paris, Lund, Hamad Bin Khalifa, Stony Brook), early-stage start-ups (Nuvero, Taleo, Creamery), and leading cultural institutions (W.H. Mellon Foundation, American Historical Association, Qatar Foundation, Islamic Culture Foundation, Hassan II Fund, National Library of Morocco) in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.
A leading expert in the design and coding of algorithm-and-data-driven interfaces for complex information systems, and a pioneer in the creative use of AI and generative code for branding, design and CX, for two decades he designed more than a hundred visually striking and technically innovative projects across all digital media. He has also advised private investment funds and corporations, and directed digital initiatives for government agencies in the Middle East and Spain (where he produced the official website for Salamanca, European Capital of Culture, and consulted on digital strategy for the Ministry of Defence).
From 2021 till 2023 Miguel was the Global Director of Design Strategy at Vistaprint (Nasdaq: CMPR), the world's leading remote-first, full-service digital and print design company, with a team of 6,000 and over $2bn annual revenue from 15 million customers in 22 countries.
His instantly recognisable visual style (which, in addition to web and print design, he has applied to high-profile film and theatre projects, as well as to branding, identity, packaging, product and exhibition design), has also been seen at leading museums like the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, and the Cervantes Institute's MUVAP museum.
Miguel's pioneering generative digital work has been exhibited at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and is now in the permanent collection of the Design Museum in Barcelona.
Featured in books such as “The Web Design Idea Book”, “Contemporary Islamic Design”, “Designing with Type”, “Sexy Web Design”, “Hiatus”, “Net Work: Ethics and Values in Web Design”, “Signs of the Century”, “Nuevo Diccionario de Publicidad, Relaciones Públicas y Comunicación Corporativa”, “Type in Motion: Innovations in Digital Graphics” — and twice on the cover of the annual “The Web Design Index”, as well as in publications like Communication Arts, Net Magazine, PCWorld, Computer Arts, Web Design Magazine, Shift Japan, Creative Review, and Internet Magazine, Miguel Ripoll has been profiled in more than fifty interviews in Spanish newspapers, including cover stories in El Mundo, ABC and Información, as well as in CNN, Deutsche Welle, the BBC, and all the main television networks in Spain. He was on the cover of leading newspaper El País Semanal, for which he has also written opinion pieces on technology and digital design.
He has directed two international web conferences, curated and designed exhibitions in Europe and the Middle East, and has been a keynote speaker at major events like the Internet Global Conference, Inter / Media, the Future of Web Design in London, etc. He was also president of the jury at the New Media RO Awards in Bucharest (Romania), and a jury member at the prestigious technology FPRJ Awards in Spain, with Nobel laureate profs. Paul Berg, Illya Prigogine, Hamilton Smith, and Jerome Friedman.
Miguel was a Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and has also been invited to speak at Columbia University in New York, Trondheim University in Norway, Lund University in Sweden, and Liège University in Belgium. In Spain, he has taught seminars and master-classes on design, branding, and web technologies at the University Carlos III in Madrid, University of Alicante, Nebrija University, University of Navarra, University of Tarragona, and the IESE Business School.
Miguel Ripoll read History of Art and Musicology at the university of Macerata in Italy, and graduated summa cum laude with Special Distinction in Comparative Literature at the University of London, where he also completed research for an MPhil and was a Visiting Lecturer at University College (UCL).
Fluent in five natural languages (plus another four artificial ones), he has lived in five countries, written poetry and essays on literature, design and technology, and translated best-selling novels by Tom Sharpe and Alan Hollinghurst, published in Spain by Anagrama.