Brand Designer
Brand designers make the team look like a team. The sign on the fence, the jersey everyone wants, the sticker that ends up on a stranger's laptop. They score on craft and vibes, and the test is simple: could someone who never met your team pick your stuff out of a lineup?
In real hiring, brand design covers logos, identity systems, typography, illustration, and voice. It's what separates a company that looks funded from one that looks inevitable. The hard part is making the decisions repeatable: guidelines other people can follow, a system that stretches from app icon to billboard without going soft. A great brand designer gives a company a point of view. A merely good one gives it a color palette. This pool skews heavily toward the first kind.
Free agents: 59 available
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Fons Mans@FonsMans
Brand DesignerFounded Offgrid, a Dutch brand studio whose client list reads like a tour of your subscriptions: Lovable, Intercom, Ramp.
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Tatiana Tsiguleva@ciguleva
Brand DesignerPerplexity's first creative ambassador and a prolific AI-art experimenter, turning curiosity into entire visual worlds.
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Dann Petty@DannPetty
Product DesignerFounding product designer at Quiver AI, and before that the freelancer's freelancer — Epicurrence, the design retreat, was his.
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Rogie King@rogie
Product DesignerProduct designer at Figma behind Draw and Shaders, plus a prolific run of plugins that do things Figma never planned for.
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Brett Williams@BrettFromDJ
Product DesignerBuilt a one-man design studio past seven figures by charging a flat monthly fee and never hiring anyone.
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Adrian Kuleszo@adriankuleszo
Product DesignerRuns Designme, a design-and-dev partner that has shipped for Cluely, Ethena, Lightdash, and a hundred-odd other startups.
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Jhey Tompkins@jh3yy
Design EngineerBuilds interfaces and then explains them, which he'll tell you is the rarer skill.
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Phi Hoang@apostraphi
Brand DesignerRuns the creative studio at Perplexity and is a large part of why the brand got so much attention from designers.
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Tobias van Schneider@vanschneider
Brand DesignerBuilding mymind, a private digital garden for everything you meant to remember.
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James McDonald@jamesm
Web DesignerRuns Wireframe, a studio promising world-class visual design in weeks rather than months, after staff design stints at Clerk and Tailwind.
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Sebastiaan de With@sdw
Product DesignerCo-founded Lux and designed Halide, the camera app that won an Apple Design Award by making a phone behave like a proper camera.
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Escha@eschadiol
Product DesignerWorks across product and design at Perplexity and music and operations for Noalia, after Daylight, Descript, and OpenTable.
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Pablo Stanley@pablostanley
Product DesignerDrew Humaaans and Open Peeps, the modular illustration libraries that ended up in half the startup landing pages on the internet.
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Rasmus Andersson@rsms
Product DesignerDesigned Inter, so a good share of the interfaces you looked at today were set in his typeface.
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Joey Banks@joeyabanks
Product DesignerBuilds design systems at Baseline for the teams shipping what's next.
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Flora Guo@floguo
Design EngineerFounding design engineer at Paradigm, working on agentic interfaces and co-authoring the company's rebrand.
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Oğuz Yağız Kara@oguzyagizkara
Product DesignerCo-founded Lue Studio, a practice working across product and brand.
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Frank Bach@zendadddy
Product DesignerBuilding at Anthropic, with Instagram, Headspace, DoorDash, and Red Bull behind him.
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T. Costa@tcosta
Product DesignerCo-founded Fey, an investing terminal handsome enough to make finance software feel designed, and sold it to Wealthsimple.
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Evil Rabbit@evilrabbit_
Design LeaderVercel's founding designer since 2016 and now its creative studio director, which makes that severe black-and-white aesthetic something of…
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Inga Hampton@ingapng
Brand DesignerBrand designer and illustrator at Raycast, working out of Belfast.
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Grace Walker@graceongrid
Design LeaderCreative director at Spellbook after years as a Webflow-wielding independent in Calgary.
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Michael Flarup@flarup
Brand DesignerRuns Northplay and Pixelresort out of Copenhagen, and drew a good share of the icons already on your home screen.
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Claudio Guglieri@claudioguglieri
Brand DesignerIndependent now, after art-directing Fluent at Microsoft and a long run at Fantasy.
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Jamey Gannon@jameygannon
Brand DesignerBrand designer running rapid-fire sprints for early-stage tech and CPG out of Brooklyn, posting all the while as 'techbimbo.' Also founded…
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Nick Pattison@thenickpattison
Brand DesignerRuns Primary, where a rebrand takes two weeks rather than two quarters.
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Adanna O.@Adxnna
Product DesignerToronto product designer, illustrator, and icon designer with more than a decade in illustration and a special affection for design systems.
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Finn McKenty@thefinnmckenty
Design LeaderMarketer, designer, and fractional CMO at Brotege after a 750,000-subscriber run as The Punk Rock MBA.
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Mike Smith@mikesmith187
Brand DesignerRuns Smith & Diction out of Philadelphia, a small studio with a big appetite for lettering and identity work.
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Ben Fryc@benfryc
Brand Designer3D artist, motion designer, and creative at Framer, with work for OpenAI, Figma, Google, Wealthsimple, and Loom.
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Jessica Strelioff@jstrelioff
Design LeaderBrand designer and creative director leading Goodside, the independent Austin studio working across strategy, identity, art direction,…
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Lucas Crespo@lucas__crespo
Brand DesignerDescribes the job as putting lipstick on capitalism, which after creative directing at Every, VML and BBDO New York he has more than earned…
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Adam Whitcroft@AdamWhitcroft
Product DesignerDesigns at Owner, but a generation of developers knows him for Climacons and Batch — the free icon sets that ended up in a decent slice of…
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Alex Aperios@AlexAperios
Design LeaderCreative director behind Aperios Design, giving founder-led companies the identity upgrade they need after the first one stops fitting.
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Wes Bancroft@WesleyBancroft
Design LeaderRuns the brand studio Lunour and talks about identity work alongside life as a dad of nine.
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Jordan Jenkins@jkane
Design LeaderWelsh designer and director, founder of Outland and builder of Tagteam.
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Dan Holdsworth@pizzaboy
Brand DesignerBrand identity and design systems for dev tools and AI startups — CodeRabbit, Zed, Hacktron.
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Kevin Twohy@kevintwohy
Product DesignerRuns a one-man studio doing zero-to-one work for, in his words, 'ambitious toys and serious business.' The range checks out: the NYT audio…
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Lee Black@mrblackstudio
Design LeaderDüsseldorf designer with 25-plus years in the work, running 1042 Studio and a small constellation of tools, components, guidelines, and…
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Charlota Blunarova@0xCharlota
Brand DesignerBrand designer for tech startups out of Prague, with a niche list specific enough to count as a personality: AI, creative tools,…
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Amy Hood@amyhoodlum
Brand DesignerCo-founded Hoodzpah, doing brand identity and type design out of Anaheim, and co-wrote "Freelance, and Business, and Stuff" for everyone…
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Andy Orsow@andyorsow
Brand DesignerMakes hype videos at Framer and describes the job as a design-motion-marketing chimera.
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Justin Farrugia@justinmfarrugia
Product DesignerDesigner behind Curated Supply and CMD Supply, which between them amount to a standing argument that taste is a thing you can ship rather…
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Marvin Schwaibold@MSchwaibold
Design LeaderCo-founded Molly, sold it to Shopify, and the whole team became the in-house Product Design Studio.
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Seb Cornelius@SebCornelius
Design LeaderIndependent London designer and creative director with more than a decade across product, identity, and digital work.
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Mackey Saturday@saturday
Brand DesignerIdentity design out of New York, for the world — which is the whole of his bio and, honestly, enough.
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Bradley Ziffer@bradleyziffer
Product DesignerBuilding at Ramp, after Antimetal, Daylight and Acorns — a clean sweep of everywhere your money goes.
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Riley Jones@rileyj_s
Brand DesignerFreelance brand designer in Chattanooga, crafting and nourishing identities for startups.
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Adrien Griveau@Griveau
Product DesignerFounding designer at Linear, a product arranged entirely around never touching your mouse — and a house style a good share of the tools you…
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Zeh Fernandes@zehf
Design EngineerHands-on head of design at Resend, and four World Cups deep into turning match data into generative posters — chrono-grids, brush strokes…
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Lauren LoPrete@laurenloprete
Brand DesignerHead of design foundations at Mercury, after leading design systems at Dropbox and Cash App.
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Grace Ling@gracepace_
Design LeaderFounder of Design Buddies, the global community she started as a student and grew past 150,000 members.
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Ryan Gilbert@rjgilbert
Design LeaderCreator of Workspaces, the weekly archive that has opened more than 500 real home offices to the internet — and photographed a surprising…
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Siddharth@itsiddharth_
Product DesignerLanded at Superpower through the Dive Talent Network after product work on Robinhood Gold and three and a half years at CRED.
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Justin Rands@jayrizpop
Brand DesignerBrand engineer at Clay, previously Intercom, Oyster, and Blend.
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The Undesigner@ninepixelgrid
Brand DesignerFull-stack designer who made the PostHog website and works with Watilo.
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Pooja Jadav@poojadav
Brand DesignerMumbai-born visual designer and product illustrator in Berlin, currently looking for her next opportunity.
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Sara Vienna@sravienna
Design LeaderChief Design Officer at MetaLab, leading research, strategy, product, and brand teams behind products from Slack to Midjourney and Windsurf.
