Alex Naghavi — Award-Winning Creative Director

Alex Naghavi is an award-winning tech-forward culture-driven Creative Director with a background in digital product, branding and venturing, based in Los Angeles.

I work, play and live on the traditional lands of Tongva territory, Cession 286. I pay my respect to Elders both past and present, and recognise and respect their abiding connection to this land, its waterways and community.

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Alex Naghavi is an award-winning tech-forward culture-driven Creative Director with a background in digital product, branding and venturing, based in Los Angeles.

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Alex Naghavi is an award-winning, tech-forward, and culture-driven Creative Director with a rich background in digital product, branding, AI, storytelling, and venturing. Based in Los Angeles, her career spans over 17 years—rooted in purpose, beauty, and simplicity—focused on creating worlds and experiences that move people.

Her creative practice brings together design, emerging technology, and storytelling to build brands, films and digital products with depth and distinction. Named one of the Top 50 Women AI Artists in the world, Alex also won the Runway Gen:48 People’s Choice Award and has exhibited her AI work at PhotoSCHWEIZ in Zurich. She’s judged some of the industry’s top awards including ADC Awards (Artificial Intelligence category), Webby Awards, Awwwards, the One Screen Film Festival, and the Leonardo Imagination Fund.

She helped shape We Are Hunted (acquired by Twitter), Clipchamp (acquired by Microsoft), and Vest (acquired by VentureCrowd). She led the 2012 platform redesign of Myspace and the 2021 RCA Records brand refresh. As Executive Creative Director at global design and venture studio Josephmark, she’s led global projects across space, entertainment, music, sextech, AI, AR, XR, fintech, education, and mental health. She has also collaborated with award-winning motion studio Breeder on immersive storytelling, including the multi-narrative Google voice game for The Walking Dead.

Under her leadership, Josephmark was named Boutique Agency of the Year by ADC in 2023 and has received recognition from D&AD, ADC, Webby Awards, SXSW, Good Design Awards, AGDA, and Fast Company. Her work has been featured in Forbes, The Brand Identity, and other leading design publications, and she’s been invited to speak on podcasts such as Just Branding, Aus Design Radio, and Future Women. She has also spoken at leading creative and tech events including VidCon, Adobe Make It, The Design Conference, and Block’s BxB event (to an audience of 8,000), among many others.

Clients include Google, Spotify, Sony, Redbull, AMC, Hasbro, XPRIZE, Twitter, Portia de Rossi, Elvis, and Bruce Springsteen.

Alex’s leadership style has been described as compassionate, collaborative, motivating, and supportive. She has spent over 3,000 minutes mentoring globally and is one of the top Graphic Design mentors on ADPList.

In her personal work, Alex is building her own AI startup, Seamless Studio, which specializes in generating high-quality bespoke mockups for designers, and vibe-coding Guess Wrong, a playful web app that puts a spin on the childhood classic Guess Who. She also curates affordable art through The Broke Collector, 3D prints sculptures designed in VR, and continues to explore AI filmmaking.

She is a first-generation Australian of Persian and Dutch heritage.

For collaborations, AI commissions, speaking engagements, or just to say hi, please email: alexnaghavi [at] gmail.com.

RECOGNITION

D&AD Awards
ADC Awards
SXSW Innovation Awards
Fast Company Awards
Webby Awards
AGDA Awards
Awwwards

Runway Gen:48

Berlin Indie Film Festival

Story Machine

AI International Film Festival

PRESS

2025’s Power List: Top 50 Women AI Artists

Word-Form: Alex Naghavi on Resilience

The Brand Identity Interview
Webby’s RCA Interview

Communication Arts Interview
Future Women Podcast

Aus Design Radio Podcast Ep 148
Just Branding Podcast
Webby’s Wheel of Foreplay Interview
On Process Podcast
Aus Design Radio Podcast Ep 108

A FEW KIND WORDS FROM PEOPLE I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH…

“Al is a brilliant designer, a masterful entrepreneurial thinker with a wealth of professional experience across creative projects and technical builds. Her rare hybrid background of design and tech is an absolute gift to the team and to every client that she interacts with.”

“You're such a warm, thoughtful, intelligent, and energetic person, and you bring that to your team and to our interactions.”
“Al is incredibly gifted, so much so that she makes complex work seem effortless.”

“Facing real and sometimes harsh feedback with grace and humility. Being willing to walk through the fire with us.”

“Al is a very gifted creative, designer, technologist and futurist. She is innovative, inspired, talented and ahead of industry trends - in all reality, the truest qualities of a trendsetter.”
“Alex always has a big smile and manages to give off optimistic vibes, even though I know she must be under a lot of pressure and stress at times! She's always well-spoken in meetings with clients, and is a great face for the company. I appreciate her sense of humor! Alex always has something insightful to share when I ask for advice and makes time for me, even though I know she has a lot of other responsibilities and tasks demanding her time.”
“Al is, simply put, a wonderful boss, colleague, and friend. She's passionate about the team, the work we put out, and strives to be better, either in execution or in the expression of our shared values through our work. I feel as though she takes feedback and concerns seriously.”

“I really adore Al and she should be protected at all costs.”
“Al is arguably the most approachable and personable of our leaders, and an excellent presenter. She puts others at ease, builds relationships easily, and holds herself accountable. She's attuned to diversity and inclusion, something other leaders have struggled with, and advocates for employees on all fronts. I love the balance that Al brings to the leadership table, and the way she challenges thinking. She's got such a good head on her shoulders, and can often spot the thing that everyone else has missed. She's great at delivering feedback and being transparent and open with her team.”
“There is always a sense that when Alex is leading something everything is going to be ok.”

“Al is incredibly good at keeping all things in perspective. She sees so much from a 10,000 ft view and is great at trying to keep the ball rolling on a lot of initiatives, internal or for clients. It's very inspiring leadership.”

“Facing real and sometimes harsh feedback with grace and humility. Being willing to walk through the fire with us.”
"She is an amazing presenter, communicator, and shares her thoughtful philosophy around considered design in an easy and accessible way. She leads the team thoughtfully, empathetically, and with grace, humor, and inclusion. The team loves each other and that example comes from the top. She is a pleasure to work with and adds to every professional relationship she has in both hemispheres."

"The most amazing eye for good design — details inside of details, details behind details, choices that I can't quite understand how/why your brain went there but it did."
"Being relentlessly curious with questions about our process and outputs. It's been great having a reflective voice during the engagement so that we have a chance to pivot and adapt rather than just at retros."

"You're still the best manager I've had in my career and that means a lot. I've been treated very terribly at most workplaces prior to working with you, and you really set a different precedent for how people in leadership roles can still be kind and human while demanding the best from you. So thank you for that – it hasn't gone unnoticed."
"You make work that inspires people. That inspires me. Whatever it is about what you do my brain is the socket and you are the plug."

"A big ol’ thank you for helping me grow so much as both a designer and person. I have so much respect for the incredible effort you put into everything that you do. There’s been such an abundance of learning, encouragement, and kindness. It’s been my good fortune to have been part of such a talented and humble team."
"Seeing people's potential clearly! I really admire Al's decision to take on our newest hire, and mentor her in UX design basically from the ground up. As Al predicted, she is killing it. Our leadership team making calls like that on new hires is exactly how JM design unicorns are forged. It's a risk, but Al tends to make sure they pay off. You really love to see it."

"Big fan of your mentorship style for any member of the team."
“Being a lovely, empathetic, and sharp-as-knives leader.”

“She is an amazing presenter, communicator, and shares her thoughtful philosophy around considered design in an easy and accessible way. She leads the team thoughtfully, empathetically, and with grace, humor, and inclusion. The team loves each other and that example comes from the top. She is a pleasure to work with and adds to every professional relationship she has in both hemispheres.”

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Creative Direction, Brand Identity, Product Design

DALA

Creative Direction, Brand Identity, Product Design