Crypto creative director: 19 design leads at 19 teams, 3 steps

NAUT tracks 19 contacts titled crypto creative director, head of design or chief design officer at 19 teams, read from its database on 14 November 2026, and 11 of the 19 have a LinkedIn profile on file. To find 1, search the title on NAUT's People tab, open the team's company page to see who else sits there, then check the person's own bio before you write.

Data note. Every count here comes from NAUT's own database, read-only, on 14 November 2026. The starting set was 21 contacts with a current creative director, head of design or chief design officer title at 21 live project pages (not archived, not merged, former titles left out). 2 came out after a check outside NAUT: at Phantom, a public page checked for this article named a different person as head of design, and at Litecoin, a public profile gives the contact a different title at the Litecoin Foundation. 8 of the 21 titles were put to public pages: those 2 were contradicted, and the other 6 found no company or team page naming the person, so their titles rest on NAUT's record. The remaining 13 were not checked outside NAUT. 8 of the 19 teams carry a NAUT description that names a game, a studio, a virtual world or marketing technology and no chain or token (Blocklords, KOKODI, Kuroro Beasts, Marina Protocol, Metropolis World, PlayCrystalfall, SHADOW WAR and Youmio); NAUT files them as project rows in its crypto database, so read the company page before you pitch a crypto product.

How do you find a crypto creative director in 3 steps?

Search the title, read the team, then check the bio. The design seat owns the brand, the product look and often the launch assets, so it is the right first read for a design agency, a creative tool, a launch campaign or a co-marketing deal.

Step 1: search the title on the People tab

The seat goes by 3 names. On NAUT, 14 of the 19 carry creative director in the title, 4 carry head of design and 1 is chief design officer: Arash Lowni at FreeBnk. So run the search twice, once for creative director and once for head of design, and read the full title. 8 of the 19 titles also say co-founder, and 2 also say CEO: José Gabriel Ocampo at Kuroro Beasts and David Johansson at Blocklords. At a team where the creative director is also a founder, a design pitch reaches the person who signs.

Step 2: open the company page

The company page shows every person NAUT holds for that team, so you can see whether the design lead is the only route in. Worked example: Zero Hash, filed on NAUT under its X handle. Its own site calls zerohash "a digital asset infrastructure provider that enables financial institutions and fintech companies", and its homepage links the X account that matches NAUT's handle. NAUT lists 6 people on the team, and Amjad Arif, Head of Design, has LinkedIn, X and Telegram on file. With 6 names on the page, you can also see who sits beside design before you pick the 1 to write to.

Step 3: check the bio before you write

A title on any directory can lag a job change. Open the person's page, then the LinkedIn or X profile it links, and confirm the seat and the employer. 1 title in this set names a second company: David Johansson is listed at Blocklords with the title CEO, Co-Founder & Creative Director at MetaKing Studios, so his own bio tells you which name your note should use. Rebrands matter too: Velora is the former ParaSwap, and Cointelegraph reported on 3 April 2025 that "DEX aggregator ParaSwap announced its rebrand" to Velora.

Which crypto creative director contacts does NAUT list?

The table lists all 19 design lead contacts by team, sorted by how many of the 3 channels NAUT has on file (most first), then by team name.

Team	Lead and title	Channels
Kuroro Beasts	José Gabriel Ocampo, CEO and Creative Director	LinkedIn, X, Telegram
Velora	Younes Hadry, Head of Design	LinkedIn, X, Telegram
Zero Hash	Amjad Arif, Head of Design	LinkedIn, X, Telegram
BeraTone	PixelBera, Co-Founder, Creative Director	X, Telegram
Blocklords	David Johansson, CEO, Co-Founder & Creative Director at MetaKing Studios	LinkedIn, X
Milady	Sprite Bonkler, Creative Director	X, Telegram
Superstate	Matt Storus, Head of Design	LinkedIn, X
Bungee Exchange	Murphy Usifo, Head of Design	LinkedIn
FreeBnk	ALArash Lowni, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer	LinkedIn
Irys	Nick Galang, Creative Director	X
JoJoWorld AI	Neil Jia, Co-Founder & Creative Director	LinkedIn
Marina Protocol	Blue, Co-founder & Creative Director	X
MegaETH	Rose Bao, Creative Director and Visual Artist	X
Metropolis World	WLWalter Lyon Krudop, Creative Director	LinkedIn
PlayCrystalfall	DSDaniil Sanders, Creative Director, Game Designer and Co-Founder	LinkedIn
SHADOW WAR	Roy Blackstone, Creative Director	X
Youmio	BCBenjamin Cleary, Co-Founder / Creative Director	LinkedIn
KOKODI	MMMelba Marat, Co-founder, Art Director / Creative Director	None
StakeLayer	Yaro, Creative Director	None

3 of the 19 have all 3 channels on file, 6 have LinkedIn alone and 4 have X alone. Melba Marat at KOKODI and Yaro at StakeLayer have none of the 3, so their team pages are the route in. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

How many people does NAUT list on each team?

A bigger team page gives you more than 1 way in if the design lead does not answer. The chart ranks the 19 teams by the number of people NAUT lists on each.

MegaETH leads with 12 people on its page, while at Kuroro Beasts and Milady the design lead is the only person NAUT lists.

Which channel reaches a web3 creative director?

LinkedIn and X tie: 11 of the 19 contacts have a LinkedIn profile on file, 11 have an X handle and 5 have Telegram.

• Start on LinkedIn for the 6 contacts with nothing else on file, such as Murphy Usifo at Bungee Exchange or Walter Lyon Krudop at Metropolis World.
• Use X for the 4 with X alone, such as Rose Bao at MegaETH or Nick Galang at Irys. Designers often post their work there, so a note that names a recent piece reads as a real one.
• Use Telegram where NAUT has it (5 contacts), such as PixelBera at BeraTone or Sprite Bonkler at Milady.
• Send 1 note on 1 channel. At the 8 teams where the design lead is also a co-founder, a second copy to the CEO can land on the same desk.

What this tells a crypto head of design pitch

• Lead with work: a design lead judges a pitch by what it looks like, so attach 1 example built for a team like theirs.
• 19 teams is a short list, so read each company page first: 3 teams list 9 or more people, and 2 list only the design lead.
• A founder raising or an investor sourcing can use the same 3 steps to reach the person who owns a team's brand and launch look.

Related reading on NAUT: How to find decision makers in a company: 5 steps for crypto and Find crypto founder LinkedIn pages: 3 steps, 3,815 on file.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=creative+director&limit=100 with the header Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns people whose name, handle or title matches, each with jobTitle, company and the flags hasLinkedin and hasTelegram, for 5 credits a call; run it again with q=head+of+design. To read 1 team, such as Zero Hash, call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/zerohashx; the docs are at https://naut.so/docs/api and plans start at $49 a month on https://naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reach the design leads above.

Crypto creative director FAQ

How many crypto creative director contacts does NAUT list?

NAUT lists 19 contacts titled creative director, head of design or chief design officer at 19 teams, read on 14 November 2026. 14 hold a creative director title, 4 head of design and 1 chief design officer, and 11 have LinkedIn on file.

How do I find the creative director at a crypto team, and their contact channels?

On NAUT: search creative director and head of design on the People tab, or call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=creative+director, and each person page shows which channels NAUT has on file for the 19 design leads read on 14 November 2026. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial.

Which channel works best for a web3 creative director?

LinkedIn and X tie in NAUT's data on 14 November 2026: 11 of the 19 design leads have each on file, and 5 have Telegram. 3 have all 3 channels: José Gabriel Ocampo at Kuroro Beasts, Younes Hadry at Velora and Amjad Arif at Zero Hash.

Is a crypto creative director often a co-founder?

8 of the 19 design leads NAUT listed on 14 November 2026 also carry a co-founder title, such as Neil Jia at JoJoWorld AI and Benjamin Cleary at Youmio. At those teams a design pitch reaches someone with a say in the budget.

Sources

• NAUT database, read-only, 14 November 2026: contact titles, team pages and channel flags.
• zerohash homepage, for the company description and its X link.
• Cointelegraph, 3 April 2025, for the ParaSwap rebrand to Velora.
• Phantom about page and The Org, Litecoin Foundation, the 2 checks that took rows out.