As an architectural signage and experiential designer, Valentina Dobrev creates impactful visual identities and immersive installations for the built environment. Her work blends architecture, brand storytelling and user experience to transform complex spaces into intuitive, visually completing journeys. Below are some works created during her time in two of the leading architecture firms in the country, as well as freelance works, over a 10-year period. Her diverse portfolio features works for clients in hospitality, commercial real estate, retail, finance, health care, aviation and government work.
Project Role: Signage Designer for lobby and tenant space.(Coffee Menu, Freestanding Directories, Elevator Signage, Room Signage)
Project Architect: Gensler
Role on Project: Exterior & Retail Signage Design (Exterior signage, Friendship Market, Restaurants, Directional Signage) Wayfinding Program, Design Documentation
Interior Design & Architecture: Gensler
Role: Environmental Graphic Designer
Firm: Gensler
Merging an innovation lab with an office space, we took this as an opportunity to showcase the past in order to tell the story of the current breakthroughs in dental equipment. We were presented with a large inventory of artifacts dating back to the 1800s. The display cases in the space had to accommodate these items as well as include information about the history of each artifact. They are a timeline in a sense, as the items get progressively modern and ending with a large digital display that tells the story of the future of dentistry.
Branding and signage for a Class A office building in Vinings, GA. Scope included monument , tenant signage, fitness signage and logo development.
Client: Sweet Water Holdings
Design: Skydesign, Atlanta
Sage
Environmental graphics created for Sage’s office space in Lawrenceville. We took a fun approach to graphics to create an engaging environment for employees and give each space it’s own character.
Client: Sage
Design: (ASD|SKY) ; Skydesign, Atlanta
RWC
Project Role: Signage & Environmental Graphic Design
RWC is the world’s leading manufacturers of plumbing fixtures. The environmental graphics utilize plumbing fixtures, as they would be connected in field, to showcase a variety of the client’s products throughout their space.
Client: RWC
Design: (ASD|SKY) ; Skydesign, Atlanta
1375 PEACHTREE
Branding and signage for a Class A office building in Midtown. Scope included parking blades signage , tenant signage, interior way finding, ADA signage and environmental graphics.
Client: The Dilweg Companies
Design: (ASD|SKY) Skydesign, Atlanta
ATLANTIC HOUSE | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY GA PROPERTIES
We were engaged by Novare Properties to come up with a design for a tenant canopy that compliments the architecture and takes inspiration from the surrounding streetscape and skyscrapers . Working with the tenant, Berkshire Hathaway, we integrated their logo into a design that gives prominence to their brand, and at the same time seemelessly integrates within the architectural context.
Client: Novare Properties
Design: Skydesign, Atlanta
This was a fun sketch study of a gateway monument for an office park in Sandy Springs, GA.
MCKESSON IRVING
A history timeline of McKesson that showcases medicine bottles and other artifacts from the early 1800s to present day. We created special backlit niches to accommodate the artifacts; and printed various historic documents on the back surface of clear acrylic panels.
Client: McKesson
Design: (ASD|SKY) Skydesign, Atlanta