Vancouver Design Nerds
Eesmyal Santos Brault
Inventor / Social Entrepreneur
Eesmyal is an inventor and social entrepreneur. His background is in engineering, arts, and sustainability. He has co-founded, and continues to serve as director of, three successful social enterprises that focus on creativity, sustainability and collaboration: HiVE Vancouver, Open Green Building Society, and Vancouver Design Nerds. He earns a living as a green building expert and Principal of Recollective, a multi-disciplinary green building consulting firm he co-founded in 2006.
Sarah Hay
Industrial / Communication Designer
Sarah Hay is a Vancouver based designer of graphics, objects, experiences and communication strategies. A recent graduate of the Masters of Applied Arts in Design program at Emily Carr University, her thesis explored how the slow movement along with a heightened awareness of time can influence and enrich the design process. She constructed (and deconstructed) a seaworthy raft out of salvaged materials as a way to test and apply the theoretical aspects of slow design. Sarah’s current practice includes communication design & creative strategy consulting.
Mark Ashby
Architect /
Mark Ashby Architecture strives to engage design at all scales. Working in collaboration with urban planners, landscape architects, industrial, graphic, and interior designers, engineers, and artists; we apply our solutions-focused approach to interdisciplinary design problems spanning the range from macro to micro.
Alex Grunenfelder
Graphic Designer /
Alex Grünenfelder is a co-founder of the Vancouver Design Nerds and has been working in the field of graphic design for eight years with a focus on the arts, environmental and not-for-profit sectors. The scope of his work ranges through corporate identity, print design, web design, and illustration. He is based in Vancouver, Canada and Alvaneu, Switzerland.
http://airtasting.com/
http://wordsandpictures.info/
Kim Cooper
Architect / Artist
Kim Cooper is trained as an architect and an artist. She loves working with her hands and has been instrumental in helping to set up the CoLab, Vancouver’s newest non-profit community workshop.
Ocean Dionne
Industrial Designer /
Diversity of life inspires me. Collaboration draws from diversity and engages “the group IQ” which leaps into unmeasurable outcomes. Apply the design process – creative problem solving – to good earth based respectful ethics and add collaboration plus a dash of absurd. WOW!
That is why I am Design Nerd.
Maia Love
Medical Resident / Dance Choreographer
I am interested in maximizing potential*. I enjoy seeing the earth and human societies become healthier through creativity and balance. My background consists of artistic and scientific exploration in the fields of medicine – neurology, radiology, psychiatry, addictions, academia – biological physics, ecology, literature, and arts – dance, yoga, and poetry. Professionally, I am a doctor deeply curious about the brain and the mind.
Alicia Medina Laddaga
Architect /
Alicia is an architecture and urban designer/researcher based in Vancouver. Alicia is originally from Mexico where she studied and practiced architecture until she moved to Canada to pursue a Masters of Advanced Studies in Architecture at UBC which she recently completed. While trying to bridge the gap between two cultures (Mexico and Canada), Alicia keeps on developing her ideas about the ways in which dynamic and spontaneous processes transform cities into vibrant urban environments.
Mauricio Lozano Gendreau
Food Engineer
Mauricio is a food engineer married to an architect. He was born and raised in Puebla. He grew up in a pig farm with a meat packing family and currently works for a vegetarian company in Vancouver, BC. He is a big fan of home brewing, wine making, yoghurt fermenting, food blogging, saxophone playing, hamburger barbequing, soccer watching, good eating and Nerd Jamming.