Visual Designer • Creative Director • Art Director
AJ Basayne
Creative director and visual designer with 7+ years building brand systems, art directing campaigns, and designing across print, digital, motion, and environmental. Clients include Four Seasons, Commercial Metals Co., Stampede Cocktail Club, and Zipline.
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Client List
SELECTED WORKS
Stampede Cocktail Club
Art directed all visual output for Stampede Cocktail Club including seasonal menus, merchandise, event graphics, environmental design, and social media assets. Elevated from designer to Art Director in August 2025. Work spans illustration, typography, layout, and motion graphics produced in Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
Lucky Dog Soda
Concept brand identity for an independent soda company. Developed the full visual language including logo, packaging, pattern system, and social media suite from brief to final execution.
Four Seasons Seattle
Art directed a children's activity book for Four Seasons Hotel Seattle, commissioned to boost child engagement during guest stays and reduce friction for traveling families. Required original illustration, UX research on child-appropriate activity formats, and strict adherence to Four Seasons luxury brand standards throughout.
FIFA Seattle World Cup Poster
Named finalist in the FIFA World Cup 26 Seattle Host City Poster Design Competition, selected from over 200 submissions. The brief called for a poster celebrating Seattle as a host city for the 2026 World Cup, capturing the energy of the tournament, the identity of the city, and the global spirit of the sport in a single image. The design draws on Seattle's visual identity: its skyline, geography, and character while incorporating the visual language of international football culture. Submitted as an independent entry with no client direction or creative brief beyond the competition parameters.
Commercial Metals Co.
Contract designer embedded across Commercial Metals Company and its subsidiaries Tensar, Geopier, and InQuik. Deliverables span digital ads, eBook design, motion graphics, 3D product visualization, and executive presentation systems including the CMC Global Leadership Summit brand identity and deck.
Tensar
Developed the first photorealistic 3D render library for the full Tensar geogrid product line in Blender. Also responsible for Google Ads, distributor marketing materials, and motion design across the Tensar brand.
Geopier
Google Ads, email animations, and explanatory 3D product animations with motion graphic treatments for Geopier's ground improvement solutions. All work produced in After Effects and Blender to CMC brand standards.
Central Valley water Restoration
Heuristic evaluation and full redesign of a small business website, optimized to convert visits into phone calls. Delivered measurable increase in inbound leads. Built in Squarespace with Figma wireframes preceding development.
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