REZA BIRD. Creative director. storyteller. speaker.
builder.

I love technology and I love culture. When you want to combine the two, you need people who show up early to new tools and start building the creative language around them, naming the game, making room for others to play. That's me!

I've made web series that opened enterprise doors. Viral videos that traveled to government departments. Work that made audiences feel something.

For the past four years, AI has been my primary focus. I've traveled the world documenting how the best creatives think with it, built some of the tools they use, and I'm currently Creative Director at Vizcom, the leading AI design tool for professional designers.

I write almost daily on LinkedIn. I think naming and defining what's happening to us matters. We have to understand machines if we want to be better than them.

ONGOING.

Design Decoded

Jan 2024 - Present

Design Decoded is an unscripted web series that started with one question: how do we convince the professional design community that AI isn't replacing them. The solution was a series of short-form docs filmed around the world, following some of the best designers working today. I just shot episode 5 in January 2026 in Mexico and it's now in post-production.


Design Decoded is an unscripted web series that started with one question: how do we convince the professional design community that AI isn't replacing them. The solution was a series of short-form docs filmed around the world, following some of the best designers working today.


Design Decoded is an unscripted web series that started with one question: how do we convince the professional design community that AI isn't replacing them. The solution was a series of short-form docs filmed around the world, following some of the best designers working today.


Design Decoded is an unscripted web series that started with one question: how do we convince the professional design community that AI isn't replacing them. The solution was a series of short-form docs filmed around the world, following some of the best designers working today.


Design Decoded

NXT ANIMAL

Jan 2021 - Present

NXT ANIMAL was my personal studio, where I worked with tech clients including Vizcom, Twitch, and Microsoft. I built a creative community around it through a newsletter. When I shut down the studio to join Vizcom, I kept the newsletter going. I still write in it about my process, the tools I'm building, and the experiences along the way.

NXT ANIMAL was my personal studio, where I worked with tech clients including Vizcom, Twitch, and Microsoft. I built a creative community around it through a newsletter. When I shut down the studio to join Vizcom, I kept the newsletter going. I still write in it about my process, the tools I'm building, and the experiences along the way.


NEWSLETTER

Case Studies

Jan 2026 - Present

Watch my case studies where I break down what it takes to think with AI.

Watch my case studies where I break down what it takes to think with AI.

CASE STUDIES

Collaborations.