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Kalen Hayman — founder of AVA Design Studio

About · Vancouver, B.C.

Kalen
Hayman.

Fifteen years behind the lens, the camera and the community — now building the personas that represent brands when no one's in the room.

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Photographer

02

Videographer

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Community Manager

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AI Specialist

● now

I started as a photographer, learning to find the one frame that says everything. Then videographer — telling brand stories in motion for Red Bull, MuchMusic, CBC and Cineplex.

Running shared living and working communities taught me the other half: hospitality, relationships, and how people actually want to be spoken to. That's the part most AI gets wrong.

Now I build persona-driven avatars and agents — combining fifteen years of production with AI as a creative system, not a shortcut. A face, a voice and a personality that reps your brand, owned by you.

Selected production history

Red BullWrigleyJim BeamMuchMusicCBCCineplexBailey NelsonLululemon × Vessi
02 · What We Stand For

Human.

Technology in service of people, relationships and community — never the other way around.

Creative.

Editorial-quality storytelling, built on fifteen years of broadcast and brand production.

Optimistic.

Positive, empowering presence that opens opportunity instead of closing doors.

Forward-thinking.

AI as a creative system, not a shortcut — proprietary talent brands own forever.