Meet the team

Architects of commercial brand experience

Nine specialists. One independent studio. American practice with European craft designing how retail brands are seen, entered, and remembered.

Basia Ashor

Founder | Principal Designer

Basia was born in Poland and studied in Warsaw before immigrating to the United States to pursue architecture. She graduated with honors in architecture from the University of Illinois Chicago, then designed for some of Chicago's largest architecture firms. She founded Rendex Design to bring rigorous commercial design to independent owners and national brands logos through construction documentation. Across her career she has shaped more than 2,500 projects in North America and Europe. Under her leadership, Rendex holds a Diversity Supplier Certificate as a woman-owned business and has earned multiple design awards, with 600+ five-star client reviews.

Marcus Weber

Director of Architecture

Leads building envelope and code-minded storefront packages for multi-tenant and freestanding retail across the U.S.

Sofia Reyes

Senior Commercial Designer

Specializes in guest-flow interiors for restaurants, beauty, and high-traffic retail calm plans that still sell.

James Carter

Project Director

Owns schedules, landlord packages, and multi-location rollouts so approvals stay on the critical path.

Mei Lin

3D Visualization Lead

Turns drawings into photoreal models owners use for fundraising, franchising, and city presentations.

Omar Hassan

Senior Brand & Signage Designer

Connects identity systems to dimensional letters, wayfinding, and night-readable storefront brands.

Claire Brennan

Brand Strategy

Translates owner goals into design briefs from first logo concepts to full environmental standards.

Arjun Patel

Design Technologist

Production drawings, detail sets, and coordination files that construction partners can build from.

Elena Novak

Interior Design Lead

European material sensibility with American retail reality finishes that photograph and perform.

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