AJ Basayne • Bay Area

Art Director

I manage brand systems and utilize modern design tools to efficiently realize marketing campaigns, develop collateral, and create iconic designs.

6 years leading end-to-end creative across digital, print, social, and motion channels .

Stategy•Design• Ownership

Tensar

Brand Systems Campaign Design Motion

One visual system for Tensar's entire brand — guidelines, campaigns, decks, and ads, all held together by a single hand.

Contract Brand & Marketing Designer · Tensar (a CMC company)

Layout Motion Graphics Strategy

Geopier's engineering happens underground, out of sight — so I animated it into something you can actually watch.

Contract Graphic Designer · Geopier (a CMC company)

Brand Systems Motion 3D Visualization

One designer embedded across three industrial brands — from Google Ads to the full identity for CMC's Global Leadership Summit.

Contract Graphic Designer · 9 months

Graphic Systems, Asset Creation, Project Management

Art Direction Brand Identity Illustration

How do you give a gothic dive bar an identity that refuses to sit still?

Art Director · 5 months

Art Direction Illustration Motion

Hired as a designer, promoted to Art Director — now every visual and menu the club puts out is mine to direct.

Art Director · American Mythology

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Art Direction Illustration UX Research

A children's activity book held to Four Seasons luxury standards, made to keep young guests happy on the road.

Contract Graphic Designer · Four Seasons Hotels

Illustration Poster Design Art Direction

Named a finalist out of more than 200 entries in the contest to design Seattle's 2026 World Cup poster.

Finalist, FIFA World Cup 26 poster competition

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