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Michael DeBiase

Creative Director & Lead Designer

Twenty years of marketing and brand design, mostly inside teams that had to grow fast. Right now I'm contracting and running my boutique design studio, and I'm happy to keep doing that. I'm also open to a full-time role if it's the right fit. Learn more about Michael.

Experience

Lo Studio
Creative Director & Lead Designer

Boutique studio for early-stage startups, Series A to C. Brand and go-to-market design for companies like ProjectDiscovery and LaunchDarkly: design systems, web, video and campaigns built for marketing teams that need to scale fast.

2004 – Present
ProjectDiscovery
Principal Designer

Led brand and go-to-market strategy for a Series B cybersecurity startup. Built the identity, a scalable Figma design system and the marketing infrastructure behind enterprise growth, plus the company's first conference and multi-channel campaigns across web, video and events.

2023 – 2025
LaunchDarkly
Senior Designer & Video Editor

Scaled marketing and brand design for a feature management platform serving 20+ trillion flags a day. Built design systems for high-velocity campaigns across web, events and video, designing for DevOps and platform engineering audiences through Series D.

2018 – 2023
Auction.com / Ten-X
Creative Director

Led design strategy for the marketing organization and portfolio brands, including the full Ten-X rebrand, contributing to $50B+ in property sales. Built and directed creative teams, integrated campaigns across digital, print and TV, and auction platform UX.

2013 – 2017
Netflix
Senior Marketing Design Manager

Partnered with marketing through the shift from a 3M-member DVD service to a global streaming platform. High-velocity acquisition campaigns across ads, landing pages, email and direct mail, funnel optimization through A/B testing, and video production for TV.

2005 – 2012
Playboy Enterprises
Multimedia Designer

Digital and print campaigns for Playboy.com and Playboy Magazine: banner ads, email, landing pages and print advertising, plus motion graphics and video for marketing and executive communications.

2001 – 2005
Sony Music Entertainment
Motion Graphic Designer

Graphics and animation, with video pre- and post-production support at Viz Solutions.

1998

What I do

Brand identity
Marketing design
Web design
UI/UX
Motion graphics
Video editing
Creative direction
Go-to-market
Event experiences
Design systems
AI-powered workflows
Vibe coding

Education

School of Motion
Continuing education, Advanced Motion Methods
2023
Bay Area Video Coalition
Video Production Bootcamp
2022
Academy of Art University
BA, Web Design & New Media
2011 – 2013
School of Visual Arts
Continuing education, Web Design & New Media
2001 – 2005
Academy of Art University
AA, Digital & Multimedia Design
1999 – 2001
SUNY Westchester Community College
Certificate, Digital Arts
1997 – 1999

Favorite tools

Design

Claude Design
Figma
Photoshop
Illustrator

Motion & video

After Effects
Premiere Pro
Figma Weave
HeyGen

Build

Framer
Claude Code
GitHub
Vercel

AI

Claude Chat
ChatGPT
Gemini
ElevenLabs

Ops

Notion
Linear
Slack
G Suite
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