I'm a designer working in advertising. Brand design is my home-base, but curiosity keeps pulling me into websites, products, and new technology.

I've been a strategist, developer, designer, and writer — sometimes all at once. The through line is my compulsion to turn ideas into useful, well-crafted things with character.

Currently, I'm designing AI systems, writing a newsletter, and learning to build my own software with agent-augmented workflows.

Hi, I'm Brenden.

I'm a designer working in advertising. Brand design is my home-base, but curiosity keeps pulling me into websites, products, and new technology.

Outside of work, I make projects of my own and write about

Hi, I'm Brenden.

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Working in OOH taught me that, despite what I thought, I knew nothing about the attention economy. One frame, a few words, a few seconds at forty miles an hour — the format doesn’t tolerate anything that isn’t essential. You find out what an idea actually weighs when you take everything else away.

This section is that work: out-of-home campaigns and concepts made to land at a glance. The habit it built — one clear idea, nothing wasted — is the part I keep using, whatever I’m designing next.

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