Clarity builds trust.
Trust turns ambition
into momentum.
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James Trump is a brand and design leader focused on helping frontier technology companies become clear, credible, and compelling.
He leads brand and design for ambitious technology and engineering businesses, shaping how complex ideas earn trust, adoption, and cultural relevance before certainty exists.
James has led branding and design for some of the world’s most influential technology companies, including Apple, Google, Netflix, Sony, and Uber, through leading global agencies and in-house roles. Today, he leads brand at Vast, helping shape next-generation space habitats for long-term living and thriving in space. 
His work spans brand strategy, identity systems, and design leadership across products, platforms, and environments, always shaped by context rather than convention.
From early vision to global scale, James helps build the systems that allow ambitious ideas to be understood, trusted, and sustained.
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18+ years experience
Global brand leadership across technology, culture, and engineering
Founder experience
Led teams across the US, UK, and Europe