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Aaron Bernier Creative
About

Find good humans. Make great work. Leave things better than you found them.

I’ve spent more than 25 years making things and becoming increasingly fascinated by how ideas move people. My path has taken me across disciplines, mediums, and industries, but the curiosity has stayed pretty consistent. Understand why something matters, find the meaning in it, and turn that into creative people can understand, feel, and connect with.

My Role

Connector. Translator. Creative leader.

I started in web and digital solutions, moved through graphic design, experiential, campaigns, CPG, and art direction, and eventually found my way deep into brand strategy, visual language, design systems, and creative leadership. I've never really stopped being a designer, though. Over time, making things grew into thinking about the bigger picture around them and how all the pieces connect.

My role is often to find those connections. I help teams find clarity, translate complexity into something people can build from, create systems that empower others, and shape brands people genuinely connect with. Sometimes that means defining the vision. Sometimes that means getting into the details and making alongside the team. Usually, it's a bit of both.

My Ethos

Help people. Bring moments of joy.

That idea has quietly shaped a lot of the choices I’ve made throughout my career. Creativity has an incredible ability to make someone feel something, see something differently, solve a problem, or simply make their day a little better. I want the things I put into the world, and the way I work with people while making them, to contribute something positive.

At this stage of my career, I care a lot less about titles and ladders and a lot more about finding good humans to make great things with. People who care about the work, sweat the craft, share what they know, stay curious, challenge each other, laugh when things get ridiculous, and hopefully make each other a little better along the way.

How I Lead

I don’t think creative leadership is about having all the answers. It’s about asking better questions, creating clarity, and building the conditions for good ideas and talented people to thrive.

  1. 01Creating clarity before asking for execution
  2. 02Giving people context, not only direction
  3. 03Building trust through honest feedback
  4. 04Protecting room for exploration
  5. 05Connecting individual work to a larger purpose
  6. 06Building systems that help teams move with confidence
  7. 07Recognizing that strong work and healthy teams support each other
Career Path

Chapters

2025–2026

Jane App

Art Director

Joined Jane in a new Art Director role to help shape the next evolution of its brand across marketing, digital, product, and AI. Developed the strategic foundations for a more connected brand system while leading the evolution of Jane’s visual language across colour, texture, illustration, iconography, motion, and AI expression. Worked across Marketing and Product to bring greater clarity and consistency to how Jane showed up as the company continued to grow.

2024–2025

Brooks Creative House

Creative Director, Operations

Worked across creative leadership and operations for an agency specializing in Lottery and Gaming. Helped lead the multidisciplinary creative team while introducing clearer roles and responsibilities, OKRs, career levelling, performance practices, and connected workflows through Box and BambooHR.

Alongside the operational work, continued to lead integrated creative and campaigns, including BCLC’s Concert of a Lifetime, which generated $5.7M in sales and a 17.7:1 ROI.

2021–2024

Ubisoft

Art Director, Global Publishing

Led brand expression and global marketing creative across Ubisoft franchises including Assassin’s Creed, Just Dance, Avatar, The Crew, Riders Republic, Rocksmith+, Anno, and more. Partnered with teams across North America, Europe, and Asia to develop visual identities, key art, campaign systems, global toolkits, digital experiences, retail, packaging, and localized creative at scale.

The role deepened my experience in building creative systems that could maintain a strong idea while adapting across teams, markets, channels, and thousands of assets.

2019–2021

Greenhaus Studio

Co-Founder, Creative Director

Co-founded a purpose-driven creative studio focused on organizations working toward positive social, environmental, and economic change. Led brand strategy, identity, campaigns, and creative direction while helping build the studio itself from the ground up.

Greenhaus brought together two things that continue to shape how I work today: a belief in the power of good creative and a desire to use it in service of something meaningful.

2018–2019

Metric Marketing

Director of Brand Experience

Worked at the intersection of strategy, creative, digital, and data to develop brand experiences and integrated campaigns for clients across a range of industries. Partnered with creative and strategy teams to translate audience and business insights into ideas designed to strengthen both brand and performance.

2016–2018

Avenue 4 Communications

Creative Director, Marketing & Software

Led a multidisciplinary team of designers, writers, and developers across brand, marketing, digital products, and software experiences. Combined hands-on creative direction with team leadership and operational thinking, helping improve project structures, workflows, resource planning, client relationships, and the quality of the work.

2012–2015

Direct Focus Marketing Communications

Art Director, Concept & Design

Led projects from concept through execution across digital, print, motion, video, experiential, and integrated campaigns. Worked closely with clients, account teams, designers, developers, and production partners to turn business objectives into creative ideas and experiences.

This was an important shift in my career from primarily making the work to increasingly defining the idea, directing its expression, and helping others bring it to life.

2011–2012

Blacksheep Strategy

Senior Brand Designer

Worked closely with the agency principal across brand strategy, identity, campaigns, and concept development. This chapter pulled me deeper into the relationship between strategy and design and helped shift my practice from solving individual communication problems toward thinking about the larger meaning and systems behind brands.

2000–2011

Earlier

Designer + Digital Creative

I started my career in web design, UI and digital experiences before moving through graphic design, tradeshow and experiential design, CPG, print, video, campaigns, and concept development. That breadth gave me a foundation in making across mediums before my career moved deeper into brand strategy, art direction, systems, and creative leadership.