AJ Basayne • Bay Area
Art Director
Brand, motion, and visual systems, built to hold together from first sketch to final rollout.
Seven years directing visual work across print, digital, motion, and environments. Recent work for Four Seasons, Commercial Metals Co., and Stampede Cocktail Club, where I was promoted to Art Director.
Four Seasons • Commercial Metals Co. • Stampede • Twist of Fate
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Twist of Fate
How do you give a gothic dive bar an identity that refuses to sit still?
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Commercial Metals Co.
One designer embedded across four industrial brands — from Google Ads to the full identity for CMC's Global Leadership Summit.
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Stampede Cocktail Club
Hired as a designer, promoted to Art Director — now every visual and menu the club puts out is mine to direct.
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Tensar
Built the first photorealistic 3D render library for Tensar's entire geogrid line — modeled from scratch in Blender.
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Geopier
Geopier's engineering happens underground, out of sight — so I animated it into something you can actually watch.
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Four Seasons Seattle
A children's activity book held to Four Seasons luxury standards, made to keep young guests happy on the road.
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FIFA Seattle World Cup Poster
Named a finalist out of more than 200 entries in the contest to design Seattle's 2026 World Cup poster.
Lucky Dog Soda
No client, no brief. A full soda brand dreamed up and built start to finish in one week.
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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.
Building Vision LLC
End-to-end website redesign for a contracting business — heuristic evaluation, Figma wireframes, Squarespace build — optimized for professional appearence.
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