Jose Flores is a Dominican designer, illustrator and art director based in Brooklyn, NY. Previously at BUCK, he is now full-time freelance and available for commissions and collaborations. This portfolio contains samples of personal, freelance and in-house studio projects.

Feel free to reach out via email 
 (josefloressvelti@gmail.com) or Instagram.

Clients he’s worked with:

The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Its Nice That, Bloomberg Businessweek, Figma, Google, Apple, Meta, Airbnb, Spotify, Microsoft, IBM, DoorDash, Venmo, CashApp, Mailchimp, Cartoon Network, Mold/Field Meridians, Byline.

Work Featured:

NYT Best of Illustration 2024
It’s Nice That: Creative Director’s Checklist
It’s Nice That: Thanks In Advance
Friends of Friends
Pyramid Magazine
Pardo Magazine

Recognition:

Young Guns 23 Finalist, 2025
The One Club for Creativity

LAD Young Talent Jury, 2025
Latin American Design

Wood Pencil
Get an Airbnb, 2025
D&AD Awards

The 73 Best Illustrations of 2024
The New York Times

Young Talent Winner, 2023
Latin American Design

Merit
Airbnb Cover, 2023
The One Show 

(3) Wood Pencil, 2023
Mailchimp “Give Where You Live”
D&AD Awards

IBM Sports & Entertainment Partnership

BUCK teamed up with IBM to celebrate its partnerships with some of the world’s most significant sporting and entertainment events, showcasing IBM’s transformative role through visually dynamic and emotionally resonant visuals. I was in charge with creating 2D elements throughout the system.

Full team credits and project at buck.co.

Instagram: Sticker Pack

Meta commissioned BUCK two sets of sticker packs for Instagram, on a wide variety of emotions and occassions. I had the pleasure of designing the sticker pack “Thick and Sweet”, one of the two sets.

Full team credits at buck.co.

Duck illustrations for a zine based on travels to Brienz, France and the Basque Country, 2025

Apple: Spring Sticker Pack

Collection of designs for a Spring sticker set commissioned by Apple.



Editorial illustration for NYT Magazine

Illustration for NYT Magazine’s Letter of Recommendation about how it’s more exciting to listen to baseball on the radio as opposed to watching it on tv.

Art Director: Claudia Rubín

IBM: Scuderia Ferrari

IBM watsonx turbocharged the Scuderia Ferrari app with AI-powered content and insights. At BUCK, we worked on a series of data-driven graphics to support this partnership, most of these being used for their website, socials and other digital spaces.

Full team credits at buck.co.


Spotify: Brand Expression Illustration
In collaboration with Spotify’s In-House Creative Team, we developed at BUCK a fluid collection of illustrations that embraces a variety of artistic styles while staying true to Spotify's identity. My design was made in collaboration with Sam Lyon, who made the 3D version.

The Guardian: AI & The Future of Work

The Guardian launched a year-long series of stories about how AI is reshaping work. This particular piece explores how AI anxiety is influencing career decisions before AI has replaced most jobs, pushing workers to either avoid-exposed field or actively adapt to them.

Art Director: Alvaro Dominguez

The Long Run Club: Ride for Freedom

Icon designs for The Long Run Club, to be used in limited-edition jerseys designed specifically for teams, clubs, and companies to raise awareness for modern day slavery.

Snails illustrations for a zine, 2024

Editorial illustration for The New York Times

Illustration about Crossplay, The Times’ first two-player game that debuted this year.

Art Director: Vinnie Neuberg



Four Roses print

A risograph print printed by Can Can Press in Mexico City, first sold at the 2024 Brooklyn Art Book Fair.
Figma’s Shortcut

Series of illustrations for a variety of editorial projects for Figma’s blog, “Shortcut.” The goal of these illustrations is to represent many of the complex technical terms present in these articles as fun, playful metaphors and abstractions.

Art Director: Maria Chimishkyan

Bloomberg Businessweek: There’s A Coach For That

This project consisted of illustrating a special package for Bloomberg Businessweek’s luxury section, Pursuits. It ran both in the February 2025 print issue and online (on a special web with motion). The story was about the rise of life coaches, an industry turbo-charged by the pandemic, and how niche this practice has become — there’s basically a life coach for everything; from getting a promotion, to losing and helping recover your mojo, to co-parenting through a divorce. The cover illustrations depict the coaches mid-session with their clients, while the inside spreads show a wide range of people and the problems they face and need help with.

Art Director: Madeline Montoya


DoorDash App Illustration System

As part of a product-wide refresh, DoorDash tapped BUCK to create a new, custom illustration style and guidelines for its app. We developed nearly 200 illustrations — from food to home to retail — to show off all the products you can have dashed to your door. We systematized the new designs into a set of illustration guidelines for DoorDash’s internal team and collaborators to reference in future work.

Full team credits in buck.co.

Editorial illustration for The New York Times

Art Director: Elana Schlenker

Cartoon Network Rebrand

Cartoon Network celebrates a legacy of genre-defining entertainment and cultural influence. Our rebrand efforts at BUCK included a 360˚ approach that included visual identity, motion toolkit, social, OOH and sonic which we then codified into comprehensive guidelines and templates for CN. 

Full team credtis at buck.co.