Oleg Kolbasov

Post Media

Creative Director | Jun 2022–Present | Detroit, MI

Independent creative studio supporting consumer, retail, and emerging brands.

• Have led creative direction for the agency through periods of significant growth, including a peak of 14+ active client accounts, partnering directly with founders, CEOs, and marketing executives on brand strategy, campaigns, launches, and ongoing creative.
• Built, hired, and managed a 12-person multidisciplinary team at the agency’s peak across design, web, motion, video, 3D, photography, copy, and social; continue to lead creative while remaining closely involved in concepting, design, production, and delivery.
• Built creative operations spanning prioritization, project tracking, resource planning, utilization, production standards, freelancer coordination, and repeatable client workflows using Monday.com, Trello, and Harvest; continue to adapt those systems to current team and client needs.
• Led adoption of AI-assisted creative workflows, introducing team training and practical standards for generative creative, research, ideation, audience-informed development, and AI-assisted video exploration.

Multiplied

Art Director | Mar 2022–Jun 2022 | Austin, TX

Web3 and emerging-technology creative agency serving venture-backed startups.

• Led brand, campaign, and digital creative across 7+ emerging-technology client accounts with monthly retainers of approximately $30K–$100K.
• Partnered with founders, marketers, designers, product stakeholders, and developers to translate complex products into brand systems, digital experiences, investor materials, campaigns, and launch creative.

Gage / URB / Puff

Senior Visual Designer / Brand Design | Sep 2019–Mar 2022 | Metro Detroit, MI

Successive in-house roles supporting fast-growing Michigan retail and consumer brands.

• Supported Gage’s expansion through five retail launches, developing creative across retail marketing, web, mobile, advertising, photography, and video.
• Helped build and launch the URB brand across retail, digital, packaging, web, outdoor, social, and integrated marketing.
• Helped define and scale Puff’s visual identity as the company expanded to 11 locations, partnering directly with founders and executive leadership across brand, packaging, retail, digital, and campaigns.

Independent / Freelance

Designer & Art Director | 2011–Mar 2013; Jul 2014–Jan 2015; May 2017–Sep 2019 | San Francisco · New Orleans · Detroit

Independent creative practice spanning brand, digital, campaign, and product work.

• Worked with consumer, fintech, hospitality, and product-development clients across brand identity, digital design, campaign creative, and ongoing production.
• Maintained retainer relationships with Laughing Monk Brewing, Motif Investing, and Innovative Design Products, adapting quickly to specialized client needs and short-term buildouts.

Betabrand

Graphic Design & Illustration | Sep 2015–May 2017 | San Francisco, CA

Direct-to-consumer fashion company known for rapid product experimentation and frequent launches.

• Created brand, ecommerce, campaign, and digital experiences supporting product launches across web, email, social, merchandising, retail, and Silicon Valley Fashion Week.

Facebook

Visual Artist, Contract | Jan 2015–Apr 2015 | San Francisco, CA

Consumer technology platform.

• Produced digital campaign creative for Facebook brand initiatives across web and mobile, including responsive layouts, motion graphics, and integrated advertising assets.

Smule

Marketing Art Director | Apr 2014–Jul 2014 | San Francisco, CA

Consumer music technology platform.

• Developed creative across digital advertising, product marketing, social, motion, photography, and video while partnering with marketing, product, development, and creative teams.

Noise

Graphic Artist, Contract | Jan 2014–Mar 2014 | San Francisco, CA

Creative agency supporting global consumer and technology brands.

• Created high-volume digital and social campaign work for Samsung across product launches, brand initiatives, and integrated marketing.

Edelman

Graphic Artist, Contract | Oct 2013–Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA

Global communications and marketing agency.

• Created digital and social campaign work for enterprise technology clients including Adobe, HP, PayPal, Qualcomm, and Skype.

Yahoo

Visual Designer | Mar 2013–Oct 2013 | Remote

Global consumer technology and media company.

• Created digital advertising and branded experiences within Yahoo’s Creative Solutions team for P&G, Sony, Samsung, Warner Bros., and Nike.

TypeScout

Designed and built an autonomous typography discovery platform cataloging 4,800+ brands and 2,000+ fonts.

Füd Fare

Designed and prototyped a consumer grocery-price intelligence platform spanning brand, UX, data normalization, and product systems across 25 stores and seven owner groups.

Zeitlight

Designed and built a media-intelligence platform processing 430K+ articles across ~70 sources, combining information architecture, structured evaluation, and AI-assisted analysis.

A Hole Planet

Designed and built a physics-driven strategy/arcade game, translating interconnected systems into an intuitive playable experience.