# Tim Belonax > Design leadership, vision, education, provocation Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/timbelonax Designer, educator, and lecturer recognized internationally for excellence in branding, typography, publication, and environmental design. ## Work Experience ### Brand @ Anthropic Jan 2024 – Present Brand design and storytelling about AI safety and research. ### Designer / Creative Director / Manager / Educator / Lecturer @ Freelance Jan 2004 – Present Engaged in branding and design across mediums (from print to web) and roles (from management to IC) for clients and personal experiments. ### Senior Adjunct Professor @ California College of the Arts Jan 2012 – Present | San Francisco, CA I've taught in both the undergrad and graduate programs at CCA. In undergrad, I taught core graphic design classes in three of the four foundation courses: GD1 Foundation, GD2 Process, GD3 Integration. Most recently I've been teaching in the MFA Design department helping industrial, interaction, and graphic design graduate students in thesis and criticism courses. ### Principal Brand Designer @ Patreon Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Helping reshape the brand of Patreon, including design for events (Good Things Happen, Creator Fest), bespoke awards (Creator Milestone Awards), communications, and branding (new Patreon identity). ### Design Director @ Pinterest Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Served as the Design Director for the Creators audience, leading teams that launched product go-to-markets (Idea Pins), awareness campaigns (Make the World Make, Somebody Needs You), and policy updates (Creator Code). We garnered awards from the Shorty's and AdAge. I also served as interim Head of Brand Design for the last seven months of my tenure. ### Design Manager @ Pinterest Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco ### Design Lead @ Pinterest Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Senior Designer @ Pinterest Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Helping people and businesses understand what Pinterest is and why it matters. Projects include Cannes activations, SxSW, advertising campaigns, and our IPO creative. ### Design Director @ Double Issue Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA Double Issue is a new independent nonprofit print magazine. Each issue of the 100-page magazine covers an important social issue – like equality, food, immigration, and conservation. Unlike articles you read in other news outlets, the stories in Double Issue pair a cause's past and present. That's because the way we fight for issues that matter is the same today as the way it was 100 years ago. ### Graphic Design Lead @ Airbnb Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Collaborated with a team of designers and producers working across the company to create and communicate Airbnb’s global brand narrative. Major projects included internal work for the Mankind launch, BATJ, NYC Marathon campaign, and Design Miami/ art happenings. ### Designer @ Facebook Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA I worked on the Communications Design Team (now The Factory) for Facebook, creating work spanning digital and physical mediums for internal and external audiences. Projects of note: Redesigning the Facebook wordmark, redesigning the Thumb, Internet.org identity, Privacy Basics art direction, Analog Research Lab leadership & design You can see projects I created in my first year at Facebook, here—www.facebook.timbelonax.com A series of my posters for the Analog Lab are here—www.timbelonax.com/facebookposters ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ California Institute of the Arts Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Valencia, CA Teaching Assistant for Caryn Aono's GD4 class (the final studio course for undergraduate design students). Strong participant in class critique. Lead a class on "branding through writing." ### Associate Professor @ Academy of Art University Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Online Online teacher for a design course focused on branding and brand guidelines. ### Designer @ MINE™ Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 Primary designer of identities, print collateral, websites, and studio projects of beauty and provocation. Managed multiple projects from inception to completion in close partnership with the founder/CD. Sourced and managed outside collaborators. ### Participant @ Project M Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Designed a campaign to raise funds, providing rural residents of Greensboro, AL with clean drinking water. ### Design Fellow @ Chronicle Books Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Aided various art directors in designing books for the Adult Trade division. Also designed book covers and complete books. ## Education ### BFA in Graphic Design Rhode Island School of Design ### MFA in Graphic Design California Institute of the Arts ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/timbelonax - Portfolio: http://www.timbelonax.com - Portfolio: http://www.facebook.timbelonax.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/timbelonax JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timbelonax/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13