/ AboutAkvilė Balsytė

I never wanted another job.

I chose visual communication in high school and never looked for anything else. I started with photography and tried every visual field I could. Design is the one that stayed. Ten years later, the part I like most comes before the visual: what does this piece need to do, and for whom?

/ Ten years of experienceIn agencies and in-house
Akvilė Balsytė
2025 to 2026
Vilnius Coding SchoolSole in-house designer. Sixty-one paid campaigns, three landing pages built in code, about a thousand assets in one voice.
2024 to 2025
Professional developmentA deliberate step back from client-service delivery to rebuild around strategy: positioning, brand systems, research and analysis.
2022 to 2024
Ogilvy VilniusDesigner. Agency clients included IKEA, IKI, Tele2, SEB bankas, Lietuvos draudimas, Eurovaistinė and others.
2020 to 2021
Omnicom Media Group LithuaniaSecond spell, graphic designer and content creator. Agency clients included Paulig, Walmark, Hedex, Švaros Broliai and others.
2019 to 2020
Pixelmator TeamContent manager. Instagram channel strategy, and commissioning and directing artists, illustrators and photographers internationally.
2019
Socialus MarketingasContent creator. Animated video, product photography and short-form edits, plus campaign concepts pitched to creative directors. Agency clients included Huawei, L’OR Coffee, Valsoia, Kėdainių konservai and others.
2016 to 2018
Omnicom Media Group LithuaniaFirst spell, graphic designer and content creator. Creative communication across social, web banners and print. Agency clients included Paulig, Nivea and others.
2016 to now
FreelanceClient projects end to end, from first brief to final delivery, across fashion, lifestyle, retail and tech: brand identity, campaign visuals, social content, motion graphics and 3D product visualisation. My own clients included Modudo, Lengva, Vilkritis and others.
2017
Visual Communication diplomaInternational School of Law and Business. Finished with honours.

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/ Who I work withAnd where

With or without a marketing team.

Clients
Founders and small to medium brands, with or without a marketing team, and agencies that need a senior pair of hands for a month or a launch.
Where and how
Vilnius, remote by default. On site in Lithuania when a project needs it.
Languages
Lithuanian and English.
Tools
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, After Effects, Canva. Landing pages in HTML and CSS. Product and portrait photography.
/ PrinciplesSeven rules I keep on every job
01

Understand first

Before I open a file I want to know what the work is for, who reads it and what should change after they do. A brief that starts with “make it pretty” comes back with questions.

02

One idea per piece

A banner, a page or a logo can carry one message properly or three badly. Choosing the one is the job; decoration is what happens when nobody chose.

03

Calm beats loud

Discounts, countdowns and starbursts get attention once. Consistency and specificity get trust, and trust is what a brand is for.

04

Decide once, then multiply

The key decision, a layout, a logo direction, a first month’s queue, is approved on its own before anything is adapted. Changes happen once, not in twelve formats.

05

Price before work

You know the cost before I start, and the price does not move unless the scope does. It keeps the conversation about the work, not the invoice.

06

Made to be used

Files arrive named, organised and buildable by your team without me. If a system only works while I am in the room, it is not a system.

07

Trust goes both ways

I work best with people who include me in the reasoning and let me question the brief. If you want hands only, there are cheaper hands.

That is how I work.

If it is also how you want to work, we will get along.

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