Luna Ilaria Nica

What is a Luna?

A strategic thinker with a strong creative practice.

I started in the arts and turned into a strategist because I couldn't stop asking why things even work and how they produce capital.

My background is in arts and social sciences (film, translation studies, communication theory, critical media studies), which means I came to strategy through narratives and cultural anchors, not through spreadsheets. I think in systems, but deliver stories, language, and aesthetics.

I believe that the current state of marketing leaves no room for a gap between strategy and creativity.

Over the past six years, I've worked across sectors by developing a genuine literacy within each field I got briefed in, from FMCG to AI & Fintech, Hospitality, Entertainment, Cultural Institutions, and Health.

I'm particularly drawn to the intersection of behavioural economics and collective narratives, how people make decisions, how culture shapes desire, and how language can make an idea feel inherent rather than constructed.

Photography and videography as visual thinking. Art history, contemporary media studies and fintech literacy as frameworks for understanding culture, communication systems and the future of value.

My most recent research work investigates how brands use interpellation as a mechanism for constituting communities and engineering loyalty.

With experience in both agency and project-based work, I move easily between collaboration and leadership, from the creative backseat to the front line of client service.

Portrait of Luna Ilaria Nica

What I do

Creative strategy and positioning
Finding the tension a brand can own, and turning it into a platform that holds up across years and channels.
Launches and market entry
Phased launch architecture for new brands, products and markets, from first teaser to experiential reveal.
Concepts and copywriting
Campaign ideas and the words that carry them, in English and Romanian.
Experiential and community programmes
Events, activations and recurring formats that turn audiences into regulars.
Investor and product narratives
Decks and positioning that make complex products, including AI and fintech, legible to buyers, users and investors.

Studies

My academic work has revolved around the theme of discourse in mass culture.

  1. 2019–2021

    MA, Communication and Advertising

    Faculty of Communication, National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), Bucharest

    ThesisInterpellative Discourse in Post-Pandemic Marketing

  2. 2016–2019

    BA, Film Directing and Scriptwriting

    Faculty of Film and Media, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

    ThesisAn Uncomfortable Archive: The Image of the Jew in Romanian Cinematography

  3. 2015–2017

    Translation Studies in English and German

    Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

    Finnish Language and Culture course

Languages

  • RomanianNative
  • EnglishC2, Cambridge CAE
  • GermanB2, Zertifikat Deutsch
  • FinnishA1

Skills

I’m trained in both visual storytelling and strategic thinking. My skills span creative strategy, branding, concept development, copywriting, SEO, SMO, PPC, UX thinking, and narrative architecture.

Connecting People

Brief me on your project. Open for Freelance strategy and copy projects, agency collaborations and full-time roles. Based in Bucharest, working in English, German and Romanian, with clients in Romania and abroad.