Profile / Creative leadership / 2026

ciaran
moore

Creative Director · Brand, Product + Applied AI

Creative director and founder with 10+ years leading brand, product, campaigns, and creative operations across AI, consumer technology, public goods, music, and fashion. Combines founder-level strategy with hands-on design and human-led AI production systems.

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Ciaran Moore

Creative Director

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Selected evidence

$165M+ collectively raised by organizations Ciaran has built products, brands, and communities for.

Network growth

1M+

Vana network users during Ciaran's creative leadership.

Recognition

IDEO

Bill Moggridge Award, presented with Techmer PM.

Selected organizations

Experience

2016 → present

February 2026
Present

Aran Labs

Founder + Creative Director

Founded Aran Labs and lead company, product, brand, and go-to-market across the studio and its ventures. Design human-led operational systems that map repeatable creative workflows and deploy specialized agents inside existing tools. Lead fractional creative direction across brands, websites, products, and launches, with managed studio production available when teams need to ship.

January 2025
February 2026

Creative Director

Led positioning, tone of voice, visual identity, product experience, and creative direction for Vana, an AI data-sovereignty platform. Led creative and product marketing through growth from early beta cohorts to more than one million network users, working with product, engineering, growth, and community teams. Directed launches across digital, product, social, events, and retail, including the Vana App, developer products, and in-person events.

January 2023
December 2024

Gitcoin

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Art Director

Led art direction and creative strategy for an open-source public-goods funding platform, setting campaign systems and creative standards across quarterly grants rounds. Coordinated marketing, product, partner, design, and animation work for time-sensitive global launches; contributed graphic and art direction to the 2023 rebrand.

2021
2023

Port4 + CD Creative Guild

Founder + Creative Director

Founded and ran a creative studio and practitioner guild. Led brand, product, and digital engagements from strategy and messaging through launch. Managed a roster of independent creatives and project delivery.

2021
2023

Kernel

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Guide

Helped shape Kernel's onchain fellowship and grow its community of builders. Interviewed applicants, created and developed fellowship curriculum, contributed to the Culture Guild, and formed the Fashion Working Group to establish a dedicated space for designers and fashion practitioners within the programme.

2018
2021

SOPHIE

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Creative Director

Long-running collaboration with SOPHIE across visual identity, art direction, album releases, live performance, campaigns, technology collaborations, and products spanning music and fashion. Built and led creative teams for global album cycles and live moments, carrying creative decisions from concept through production and launch.

2021
2022

NFDAO

Operations Lead

Led operations for a DAO funding positive-impact creative projects. Owned governance administration, project sourcing, applicant due diligence, treasury records, and DAO tooling, supporting the grants programme from sourcing through applicant selection and funding decisions.

2021
2022

L3gendary DAO

Operations + Governance

2021
2022

Olympus DAO

Operations + Governance

March
August 2016

Lululemon Athletica

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Print Designer, Concept Team

Worked full-time as a print designer on Lululemon's concept team, researching emerging design and production technologies. Developed all-over, placement, and engineered prints for men's and women's sportswear and athleisure.

Capabilities

Strategy → execution

01 / Direction

Creative direction + brand

  • Creative strategy, positioning, and messaging
  • Visual identity and brand systems
  • Art direction and campaign design
  • Graphic design, typography, and layout
  • Creative review and quality control

02 / Product

Product + digital

  • Product design, UI/UX, and interaction design
  • Mobile apps, websites, and web applications
  • Interface systems and prototyping
  • Front-end design and implementation
  • Editorial, merchandise, and physical-product design

03 / Experience

Motion + experiences

  • Motion design, animation, and video direction
  • Social and advertising creative
  • Event activations
  • Environmental and interactive experiences
  • Stage, lighting, and live-show design

04 / Growth

Marketing + strategy

  • Product marketing and go-to-market strategy
  • Launch planning and campaign delivery
  • B2C and B2B brand marketing
  • Customer research and iteration
  • Product direction and commercial decisions

05 / Teams

Leadership + operations

  • Team building and mentorship
  • Creative and cross-functional leadership
  • Briefing, feedback, and creative operations
  • Workflow mapping and team systems

06 / Systems

Applied AI + tools

  • Human-led AI creative workflows
  • AI image direction
  • Operational agent design and orchestration
  • Workflow automation
  • Figma and Adobe Creative Suite

Education

Design foundations

2017–2019 · London

Royal College of Art

MA (Hons) Design

2011–2015

Glasgow School of Art

Bachelor of Design (Hons)

Recognition

Awards + selected work

2018

Bill Moggridge Award

Presented by IDEO and Techmer PM.

2020

The Koppel Project London

Solo Artist Residency.

2015

Texprint 2015

Selected graduate designer.

2015

Verve for Design Award

Messe Frankfurt.