Nikolay Saveliev is a designer, creative director, and visual artist with two decades of experience in both boots-on-the-ground design and team leadership, building brands and products across technology, arts, lifestyle, and luxury.
He's VP of Creative & Brand at Capitol AI (YC S24), where he’s spent the past five years working with friends to build an AI platform for enterprise workflows and decision-making.
Recent personal projects include Last Hero, an ongoing series about saccharine memory and small-town America, and salvation286, which loads the modern debate over AI consciousness onto a 5.25" floppy.
Select past clients include Dior Homme, Citi, Tiffany & Co., Hermès, Caroline Polachek, MoMA, Tate Britain, Nowness, Kanye West, Land Rover, Saint Laurent, UPenn, MIT, Google, and Microsoft.
He has worked with studios and agencies including Anomaly, Code & Theory, Ogilvy, Mother, Pentagram, SY Partners, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Studio Dumbar, AKQA, Huge, Wieden+Kennedy, Partners & Spade, Chermayeff & Geismar, BBH, BBDO, and Leo Burnett.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Bloomberg, and Wired, with recognition from ADC Young Guns, The One Show, and Print’s 20 Under 30.
He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied Computer Science at Brown University.
Nikolay Saveliev is a designer, creative director, and visual artist with two decades of experience in both boots-on-the-ground design and team leadership, building brands and products across technology, arts, lifestyle, and luxury.
He's VP of Creative & Brand at Capitol AI (YC S24), where he’s spent the past five years working with friends to build an AI platform for enterprise workflows and decision-making.
Recent personal projects include Last Hero, an ongoing series about saccharine memory and small-town America, and salvation286, which loads the modern debate over AI consciousness onto a 5.25" floppy.
Select past clients include Dior Homme, Citi, Tiffany & Co., Hermès, Caroline Polachek, MoMA, Tate Britain, Nowness, Kanye West, Land Rover, Saint Laurent, UPenn, MIT, Google, and Microsoft.
He has worked with studios and agencies including Anomaly, Code & Theory, Ogilvy, Mother, Pentagram, SY Partners, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Studio Dumbar, AKQA, Huge, Wieden+Kennedy, Partners & Spade, Chermayeff & Geismar, BBH, BBDO, and Leo Burnett.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Bloomberg, and Wired, with recognition from ADC Young Guns, The One Show, and Print’s 20 Under 30.
He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied Computer Science at Brown University.