Michael Cignarale is a SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER  and ART DIRECTOR.  Over the last 10 years Michael founded and operated WAVE Creative, a Shanghai based design studio specializing in brand and product activation for multi-national companies merging their global design style with a local mindset. As a partner at WAVE Michael has designed branding, packaging, as well as shooting ads and content for clients such as Cargill, McCormick and Pernod Ricard. Over the last 2 years Michael has moved back to Brooklyn; and works as the lead graphic designer for Nomad Marketing, in New York. At Nomad Michael designs and develops their branding, website and all their daily needs.  In his free time Michael also runs the record label and brand Medusa, a Chinese queer oriented nightlife brand.