Open to founder & leadership roles · worldwide

Ignacio Candel

Founder · Product & Design Leader

I build products from 0→1 and lead the teams that ship them. Two ventures of my own: Spinative (AI SaaS) and Love & Paper (DTC brand), built on 15+ years: 90+ game titles shipped for studios like AccaMAX and The Workshop, and editorial illustration for The New Yorker, Coca-Cola and Adidas.

2Ventures founded
15+Years leading
90+Titles shipped
6+Team led

Founder · AI SaaS platform

An AI workspace for slot creation.

I founded Spinative and built it end to end as sole founder — product vision, UX, roadmap, positioning and go-to-market. One place for game design, flow, art, math, marketing and handoff.

The creator leads. AI assists.

01

Game design

GDD, art brief, theme, narrative and settings in one place.

02

Flow

Every game screen on one canvas; drag, scale and rotate like Photoshop.

03

Art

Generate every symbol, character, logo and reel frame against one style brief.

04

Math

RTP, volatility, paytable and reel strips, with a simulator that proves them.

05

Marketing

Lobby tiles, social posts and store creatives composed from your own art.

06

Handoff

Export the full spec, ready for the build team.

70%+target reduction in asset turnaround vs manual production

Validated through customer discovery and live demos to studio executives, producers, art directors and game mathematicians. Preparing for launch.

Founded 2025 Sole founder Product · UX · Roadmap Go-to-market AI workflow
Visit spinative.com ↗

Founder · DTC e-commerce

A brand I built end to end.

Love & Paper is a premium, museum-quality art-print brand I founded and scaled across the EU. I built all of it: brand identity, product range, the Shopify storefront and its UX, creative direction, fulfilment and growth marketing.

Proof I can take an idea the whole way to a shipping, selling product, with the brand, e-commerce and P&L included.

Brand identityProductShopifyCreativeGrowthP&L

4.8 / 5 from 100+ verified reviews · shipping across the EU · launched an “Art as a Service” B2B line for recurring revenue.

Visit loveandpaper.es ↗

Selected prints · the product range

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Profile

How I work.

I'm a two-time founder and design leader with 15+ years building products and leading teams across AI, SaaS, e-commerce and games. I pair award-level craft with full commercial ownership and the speed startups need.

I came up through the craft. Years of editorial and concept work for clients like The New Yorker, Coca-Cola, Adidas and Rolling Stone taught me the standards I still hold. Games came next: artist to art lead to art director, learning to build teams, scale pipelines and ship at volume across studios and markets.

Then I built things of my own, Love & Paper and Spinative, owning vision, product, brand, go-to-market and P&L. Earlier enterprise sales and marketing taught me to lead creative the way the business does: the audience, the outcome and the cost.

I'm ready for the next chapter, building and leading product and design where it's taken seriously.

Leadership

Leading teams & product.

Art-direction and product-leadership roles behind 90+ shipped titles, across international, regulated markets.

Trajectory

The path so far.

Earlier career · commercial & product

A decade in enterprise sales, business development and marketing. It's why I lead creative with the business in view.

How I lead

Product, design and teams.

Toolkit

Selected clients & recognition

In good company.

Exhibited Casa de América (Madrid) · The Brick Lane Gallery (London) · Dublin · Buenos Aires · Mar del Plata
Education MA, 2D Art & Animation for Video Games (EVAD) · Dip. Illustration (Malharro)

More of the craft

Selected work, by discipline.

The hands-on craft behind the leadership. Explore the deeper portfolios.

Game art direction

Game art direction

Slot art direction, key art and live, real-money titles for AccaMAX, Qora Games and Arcadem.

View game art ↗
Illustration & concept art

Illustration & concept art

Editorial illustration and concept design for The New Yorker, Coca-Cola, Adidas and Rolling Stone.

View illustration ↗

Contact

Ready for the
next chapter.

Open to founder, product and design leadership roles. Based in Spain; open to relocation (Dubai · Singapore · EU) and remote.