Zachary Hershman

Zachary is a Concordia student and an aspiring advertising guru. He is always looking for ways to hone his visual communication skills and build the loudest, most eye-catching creation.

Sasathorn Bhirom

Sasathorn is a designer and concept director studying in Computation Arts.

Pam Menegakis

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Pam is driven by the relationships between different design disciplines. She values the process behind artifacts, strives to create stories, and to enable users to create their own. She uses design as a tool for communication while being mindful of the relationships between artifacts and their stakeholders, as well as the environments of which they are a part.

Nima Navab

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Since his years at OCAD studying Environmental Design, Nima has become increasingly focused on spatial design, and more specifically, on examining the role of art and technology in enhancing both intimate and large-scale public interactions. Through a variety of media and means, Nima investigates the various roles humans play in shaping the ecological, the political, and the sensorial landscapes of our built environment. His increased attention to everyday spatial interactions has brought to light the importance of field research, discussion, and collaboration with those occupying the space as well as with the space itself, highlighting the importance of spatial experience and theoretical research, both of which continue to form the basis of his creative process.

Le Nguyen

www.lemichellenguyen.com

Le is a designer who is inspired by collaborative and multidisciplinary projects to discover design potential for the built environment.

Tia Besser-Paul

www.tiabp.co

As a designer, Tia’s interests lie in the ability to blend materiality and innovation through the exploration of new approaches to existing object- creating methods. Her current body of work can be characterized as an exploration of a multitude of material practices. Spanning from wood to textiles and digital, a process of discovery is depicted within the projects she has been a part of over the past few years. Tia, being a maker as well as a designer, takes pleasure in learning new crafts and therefore thrives on the accumulation of material languages. Thus, she is a collector of media practices, a generalist in a constant search for new ways to express ideas through art, craft, and design.

Sandra Alexandre-Aimé

www.ambigue.ca

Sandra is a multidisciplinary designer interested in exploring materiality, public spaces, social issues, and interactions. Most projects she has been interested in involve creating tangible products to question and propose alternatives to existing systems. She hopes to continue this process of evaluation in her future endeavours.

Kira-Alexandra Gwilliam

Born in Montreal and raised in Sept-Iles, Kira is a designer dedicated to food. Everything linked with food interests her and she believes it is an area that should be explored in order to find sustainable solutions. Kira loves working with children because of their imagination and their innocence that is bound to disappear once they reach adulthood. Besides food, her favourite things include her cat, unicorns, and the colour pink.

Samantha Dicriscio

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Samantha has completed a college degree in Graphic Design and is coming to the end of her bachelor degree in Design at Concordia University. Her design strives to stimulate curiosity and fascination within different types of “publics”. What makes her a designer is not the projects she has completed, the diplomas she has received, or the milestones she has conquered, but the creativity of the future, the constant learning process, and the ability to break through the boundaries of comfort. Samantha insists on the importance of initiating significant experiences through visual language, which sparks interests within different stakeholders, while still making conscious and environmentally durable design decisions.

Julie Chaffarod

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Julie’s practice has been inspired by themes of identity and the impact of capitalism on diverse social components. She creates interactive experiences using sound, video, Web, and generative visuals. Interaction is often seen as an exchange between human and machine. Julie would like to explore participative interactions where changes happen collectively. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has strong interest in interactive installations, performances, and documentaries that address contemporary issues and target a large audience. The use of interaction as a cultural mediation tool is also part of her career perspectives.

Julia Panchyzhna

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Julia is a conceptual and visual arts designer.

Etienne Surprenant Legault

Etienne first completed a Cégep degree in cinema before pursuing his passion for drawing by completing a second degree in 2D Animation. He then participated in the establishment of a multimedia start-up for two-and-a-half years. There, he created video games and his interest for gaming never stopped to grow. As Etienne wanted to create video games full-time, he started to work for a small Montreal-based video game studio, Hibernum. After six months in this new studio, Etienne knew he had the potential to take on bigger challenges and desired to take on an art direction job. However, he was lacking some of the required skills. This motivated him to go back to school in the Computation Arts at Concordia, a well-rounded program that would allow him to pursue his adventure in the gaming world.

Stéphanie Bélanger

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While she is a designer and a dreamer, Stéphanie is, above all, a multidisciplinary artist who wishes to create worlds. She began her bachelor’s degree in Sound and Visual at UQAM in 2008 and discovered her passion for photography. She followed her studies with a degree in commercial photgraphy at Collège Marson. After a few years in the field and looking for new challenges, Stéphanie decided to expand her knowledge by adding design to her talents. Her studies at Concordia began in 2013, where she learned sewing, screen-printing, graphic design, and object design. Due to her desire to find solutions by learning new techniques, Stéphanie will remain a designer ready to take forth the impossible; a dreamer is also a creator.

Camila Jordán

Camila is a 21-year-old international design student born and raised in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the heart of South America. She came to Canada to study in 2013, curious of what the world has to give. Her design is oriented towards object and space design. Making things is her passion, along with dogs, food, and nature.

Bianca Bertocchi

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With a DEC in Fashion design and an upcoming bachelor’s degree in Design from Concordia University, Bianca is eager to pursue her career in the world of design. She has worked as a freelance graphic designer as well as a web and graphic designer in multiple marketing agencies. She is inspired by places and cities around the world, cinema, music, and popculture.

Philippe Caron

www.philippecaron.ca

Philippe is a Design and Computation Arts student at Concordia University since 2012. Throughout his courses, he combined his knowledge and experience in visual and media arts with his passion for design, shapes, typography, and colours as a way to find a deeper meaning of art and design.

Sarah Denis

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Sarah is a graduating Concordia student with a Major in Design and a Minor in Religion. She uses these two fields to infuse her creations, be they research papers or designs, with a deep understanding of her clients’ wants and needs. Her particular fields of expertise are Illustration, theatre design (specifically scenic, props, and marketing), editing and translating (French and English), interdisciplinary research, photography, and analogue/digital translations. She anticipates a long career in multidisciplinary design and academic research.

Annabelle Daoust

Annabelle has a multidisciplinary background in visual arts, applied arts (jewelry), and the built environment. Interested in both the theory and the function of design, she is particularly sensitive to the built environment and its relation to natural ecosystems. She looks at design projects as autonomous systems and advocates for the regenerative approach, from the vibrancy of materials to the outputs generated at environmental and human scales.

Sam van der Walde

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Sam is a Montreal-based graphic designer. She enjoys typography, layout design, and cats. Freelancing since 2013, Sam has had the opportunity to work in the realms of corporate identity and publishing. Her favourite part of her career as a designer is getting to know her clients as friends and tackling the challenge of surpassing each of their expectations. Her favourite things include confetti, everything neon, and her cat, Delta.

Alexander Kozina

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Alexander is a hot-blooded Canadian bursting with weird humour and an eye for the niche and the unusual. He has a passion for writing about and making videogames and currently aspires to break into the industry. In particular, he is interested in games that feature unique and subversive enemy design, unpredictable narrative-driven experiences, and complex, customizable role-playing elements. Apart from video games, he has a keen interest in film and a deep respect and fascination of Japanese culture, so much that he’ll be studying in Tokyo later this year.

Sabrina Emanuele

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Sabrina never thought she would challenge many of her wishful design talents when she first started her studies in Design at Concordia University. In the last three years, she created many projects which she is very proud of.

Mel Palapuz

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Mel is a Filipina-Canadian designer currently based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in designing strategies to create immersive and meaningful brand experiences and has a great love for music.

Marie-Pier LaRose

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Marie-Pier, recently graduated in Design at Concordia, typography lover, rooted in the visual world, is constantly in search of wonder. Visual communication is a means for her to create a dignified body in order to reveal goodness. Having accumulated professional experience as a graphic designer within the Department of National Defence and the Société d’Histoire de Laval and after earning a DEC in Graphic Design at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, she discovered university life with renewed curiosity for her practice. She joined The Concordian newspaper as a Graphics Editor, providing illustrations and taking part in redesigning the layout. She has also worked on the design of the Expand catalogue in collaboration with CUJAH and VAV Gallery by extending traditional boundaries. She is eager to learn more and contribute with her talents and skills to find beauty in the most unpredictable places.

Milin Li

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Milin was born in Taiwan and currently resides in Montreal. She is interested in interactive media, where she works to uncover unique and new ways to develop them in a playful manner, such as transitioning gaming experiences away from screens, creating unconventional controllers, and implementing physical body movements into games. Milin was a part of the team that developed Deathwhiff 3000, a smell-based video game that was shown at Digifest Toronto and featured in Amazing Independence Magazine. She participated in the Ubisoft Game Lab Competition 2015, where her team’s game won Best Game Design and was nominated for Best Prototype, Best Art Direction, Best Technical Challenge and Innovation, and Best Quality of the “3Cs (Character, Controls and Camera)”. She was also part of Critical Hit Montreal 2015; her final game, (UN)DONE, was showcased at GamePlay Space in Montreal.

Maya Moufawad

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Maya is obsessed with everything that has to do with design. From typography to packaging, she does it all. She enjoys collaborative work and is always up for a challenge. She is always ready for laughter and never trying to hide her smile. Design is what keeps her anchored.

Mariana Leyton

www.pizarroleyton.com/mariana

Mariana was born and raised in Bolivia and is currently living in Montreal. She has a background in architecture and is completing her BFA in Design at Concordia University. She aspires to become a successful graphic designer and entrepreneur.

Maria Mahdessian

www.mariamahdessian.com

Maria is originally Armenian, born in Montreal, and raised in Beirut. She started university as a pharmacy student only later to realize that her love for art could not fade away, so she transferred to graphic design. After two years in the program, she had to move back to Montreal, where she joined the Design program at Concordia University. Maria is a graphic designer who has a special interest in cultural, social, and political issues. She is inspired by observing the unknown, such as new cultures and random people around her, wherever she is. With this in mind, she believes travelling and observing new cultures can feed her soul and her practices in art and design.

Julie Tremblay

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Julie makes bold and vulnerable work; she strives for minimalist and honest design that involves the audience. Human connections, typography, sustainability, and spaces inspire her. Julie has spent the last six years studying graphic design and working as a freelancer. However, she hopes to become more involved in exhibition design and socially responsible projects. Her recent artistic implications include the co-founding and branding of a sustainable non-profit group, the publishing of an exhibition catalogue for FOFA Gallery, and the co-curation of Gallery X’s 2015–2016 programming. At once a graphic, type, and exhibition designer, a curator, and an artist, Julie embraces versatility; everything is connected.

Jeremy Segal

www.title66.com

Jeremy is primarily a theatre artist. He is a co-founder and the artistic director of Title 66 Productions, an experimental theatre company focused on creating innovative works for the 21st century. Jeremy co-directed and co-wrote a new theatre piece in 2015 called Nuclear Sky: The Experiment, which incorporates video, projection mapping, live sound manipulation, and the displacement of water using sound waves. He is currently in his second year studying Computation Arts, a program that initially attracted him for its applications in interactive performance. Jeremy’s interests in New Media are rooted in its relationship to the human body.

Jade Brisson

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After graduating from LaSalle College in Fashion Design, Jade decided to pursue her education at Concordia University and get a bachelor degree in Design. Her practice mainly focuses on two-dimensional and print design, as well as web design. However, having a background in fashion design, she also enjoys working on three-dimensional projects.

Luis Aretuo

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Luis is a Venezuelan-born designer now based in Canada. Obsessed with design since he was fifteen, he soon figured out that motion design was his true passion. When he is not making gifs, he will most likely be listening to electronic music, learning new software, or failing to beat contestants on Jeopardy.

Hannah Materne

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Hannah aims to brighten, for fun is important. Driven by biophilia, Hannah’s ultimate goal is to place humans within nature and for them to find that they like to be there. She is therefore a strong believer that sustainability is integral to successful design. Her aim is to make products that are not only easier on the Earth, but that actively improve the environments they inhabit.

Lindy Li Loong

www.lindyliloong.com

Lindy earned her DEC at Champlain College in Creative Arts: Digital Imaging Studio Art. During the program’s two years, she worked on both studio and digital projects. From there, she learned that she enjoys working digitally, which is the reason she will soon graduate from Computation Arts. In this unique program, she has the opportunity to work on projects that enhance her various technical skills in 3D, games, Web, and graphics. She is very interested in creating art pieces with the use of digital technology, since it provides a way of escape from reality.

Hailey Turcato

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Hailey is an object designer with a focus on sustainability. She is particularly interested in designing public spaces and exhibitions. Interactivity and adaptability are important themes in her designs. She likes to hike, knit, and swim. She is currently studying Design at Concordia University with a minor in Sustainability Studies and previously studied abroad for one semester at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design.

Laurie Goudreau

www.lauriegoudreau.com

A graphic artist, an activist, a jack of all trades, but above all a designer, Laurie finds satisfaction in print, object, and installation. Her core human and environmental values and ideologies, as much personally as artistically, establish her utopian ethic: daring to change the world. Her greater inspirational sources are a Japanese pen and her grandmother’s shed.

Gabriel Galindo

www.garocom.ca

Gabriel is a visual and graphic designer based in Montreal with a background in photography and video making. He is back from Melbourne, Australia after a study abroad program in Visual Communication Design at Swinburne University of Technology. He is currently in Concordia for a bachelor in Computation Arts and Design where he explores the boundaries of the tangible and virtual world to design objects and responsive environments for memorable experiences. He is interested in understanding human interaction with objects and spaces in order to see how those relate to people through their manipulation. He specialized in branding and visual promotion for advertising and identity.

Laurence Pilon

www.laurencepilon.ca

Laurence’s years of experience as a design student at Ahuntsic College and at Concordia University have given her the tools to see how design brings communities together and how it rallies different perspectives into a common viewpoint. She is mainly interested in typography, photography, and graphic design as means of transforming complex ideas into meaningful and tangible experiences. Having engaged subjects as diverse as student rights, synaesthesia, women’s oppression, extreme tourism, and linguistic conflicts within multicultural societies, Laurence’s work takes a critical view of cultural, political, and social issues.

Fanny Marcoux-Lebeau

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Fanny is a passionate graphic designer always looking for new challenges and experiences. Her journey at Concordia allowed her to expand her horizons, shifting from a two-dimensional perspective to a three-dimensional mindset. She is a versatile designer, having learned how to work with several medias such as wood, screen print, sewing, embroidery, and the built environment as a whole. Fanny still has a strong interest for everything related to print such as branding, book design, visual identity, illustrations, packaging, and publicity. She is also open to mixing both, such as in the creation of pop-up events.

Lauralyn Lamarche

www.lauralynlamarche.com

Lauralyn is a Montreal-based graphic designer. She is a person driven by creativity, for exploring new possibilities and ideas stimulates her mind. She is hungry for knowledge in many different aspects of life and her interests are forever expanding. She is a true optimist, always positive and smiling. Nature, travelling, and art are some of her favourite things.

Emilie Kehm

Originally from New York, this French-American artist came to Montreal to expand her knowledge in Design at Concordia University. Emilie has discovered her taste for industrial and object design, working with multiple media to create her three-dimensional projects. This, however, has not stopped her from wandering into the field of graphics and layout, always curious to learn more about the multi-faced practice of design.

Edward Nyamenkum

www.nyamenkum.com

Edward specializes in graphic design and visual communication. His design passion lies in the realms of tactile visual projects, such as books and packaging, as well as projects experimenting with photography and typography. His inspiration comes from the handmade and the everyday. With his playful and fun approach to design, Edward enjoys creating meaningful work that will also make people smile.

Katerine Dennie-Marcoux

Katerine started her practice within the field of graphic design in her career-oriented program at Cégep. After graduation, she found herself to be happy but unhappy, because she found design too restrictive for her ideas and felt the need to explore other media that allow more interaction and immersion. Thus, she went from two-dimensions to three-dimensions.

Johnson Ta

Johnson is an up-and-coming graphic and Web designer living in Montreal, Canada. He is passionate about typography, illustrations, Web, app development, and graphic design. Nature and architecture inspire him; meshing both areas allows new experiences. Johnson designs to resolve human problems by recognizing them, exploring alternate solutions, and selecting and accomplishing the best choice. He is interested in technology, music, travelling, and everything visually stimulating. He is constantly learning and open to new things.

John Shukin

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John is 22 years old and studies design, art, and philosophy. He walks, reads, thinks, and makes what seems right and feels good. Inspiration arises from people, back alleys, and dinner parties. John also likes animal trails and the way trees, ferns, and mushrooms grow together. He wonders if we could ever live like that.
John’s practice is an attempt at being alive through a truly tangible investment in life. He tries to care for the people, plants, animals, objects, and situations around him, and lets them create the work. Thus, this practice is actually a non-practice or, in other words, the eternal collaboration with other beings that he feels have something valuable from which we can learn.

Dina Bakalova

Being a designer is a privilege for Dina, to be part of a society that questions today’s wicked problems and strives towards finding ultimate, empathic solutions for them. Concordia’s Design program has taught her diverse methods of understanding and practising design. With the goal of creating meaningful design with the future in mind, Dina subjects her practice to the attention to details, precision of execution, and emotional and cultural empathy. She aims to go beyond the conventionality of a simple object; she wants her work to emit personality, to convey sentimental values and memories for its owners. She pursues a multilayered design that reflects the cultural durability of our versatile society.

Dessy Davidova

www.dessyddesign.com

Dessy was born and raised in Bulgaria and has been living in Montreal for twelve years. She has a college diploma in Fine Arts and started her studies at Concordia University’s Design program in 2013. She has since fallen in love with the art of printing, typography, and graphic design. She is also very interested in illustration, which is, in her opinion, a great addition to her skill set. Now graduating, she cannot wait to kick-start her career and evolve into a professional graphic designer facing all the challenges that come her way.

Joey-Christophe Gravel

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Joey is a creative and dynamic graphic designer always inspired by the world around him and who loves to collaborate to build rich projects. Determined and passionate, he always gives his best and strives to learn as much as possible from each situation and project, working at both two-dimensional and three-dimensional levels. His style within the design sphere is tainted by graphic, industrial, Web, and space design, as well as a strong interest for typography and object making. Joey’s work is mostly focused on branding and visual identity, as well as typographic illustrations and advertising. His interests in psychology and interpersonal relations help him exchange ideas and understand how his design could best fit the client’s interest and needs.

Christina Gancz

As a designer, Christina strives to passionately consider the many stakeholders involved in all of her design processes. She vows to closely analyze the interactions and experiences that her designs can potentially create in order to make the greatest net-positive contribution to project into the pluriverse. She aims to continuously find new design techniques that can enhance these interactions and experiences. Christina seeks to explore vibrant materiality beyond what she has learned and to allow herself to be enlightened by what it has to teach her. She values her own creativity and promises to always allow others’ creativity and constructive feedback to enrich her own design philosophy.

Jamison Lightfoot

Jamison is an artist and a designer specializing in Computation Arts. He tries to remain multidisciplinary in the media he works with. His areas of interest range from graphic communication to the integration of three-dimensional spaces and interactive media. He began to understand that being a good designer is being a good communicator. Each new medium is simply a tool to most effectively argue a message. This puts a precedent on the concept over the product and the close relationship between.

Cassandra Carosello

www.CassCarosello.com

Three years ago, Cassandra entered the Design program with a focus in print design, but her passion for experimentation led her to challenge herself in new areas of design throughout her studies. Now, she is a multidisciplinary designer who is eager to continue to expand her knowledge and explore new techniques. She has an affinity for minimalism and aims to bring a refreshing vibe to the design industry. Her work spans the areas of print, web, and product design and she spends her spare time developing her photography skills and exploring the local music scene.

Camila Acosta

www.camilaacosta.com

Camila is a graphic designer and a third-year student majoring in Design. She comes from a diverse background and has had the opportunity to live abroad in Mexico, Brazil, and the United States.
Her diverse background and personal experiences have made her acknowledge the pluriversality of the world, and this is often reflected in her design practice. She is a multifaceted designer who works in a variety of print and screen-based platforms. Her curiosity and eagerness to learn more are the driving forces behind her design practice. Furthermore, clear communication is of utmost importance in all of her design work, which she tries to achieve by creating sleek designs that are sophisticated, yet timelessly minimalistic.

Francis Leclerc-Charron

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For a good part of the last decade, Francis has been deeply invested in his passion: design. Thanks to his two degrees in the field, he has been constantly pushing his limits in Web design, branding, publicity, and graphic design publishing.

Francis Goodship

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Francis is a designer with a very broad source of inspiration and an interest in mixing media. Open-sourced and DIY approaches have led him to practise several different media: industrial design, graphic design, Web development, photography, videography, and motion graphics.

Bianca Su

www.biancasu.com

As a designer with multidisciplinary skills and a strong graphic background, Bianca loves to work in visual communication and dynamic environments. The thrill for her lies in the space of interaction where people meet, influence, and are inspired by creative projects and by each other. Having lived in different locations (Montreal, Copenhagen, and Taiwan) motivates Bianca to understand the world from different angles and to work with the diversity it has to offer.

Anna-Maria Van Kosenstram

www.vankosenstram.com

Anna-Maria is a designer, a photographer, and a stylist. Recently graduated from Concordia University, she wishes to pursue her studies in design while merging her passion for fashion.

Eliza Nguyen

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Eliza is a graphic designer who loves print, Web, typography, photography, and art direction. She enjoys working with a minimalist aesthetic containing a punch of colour. In her spare time, she loves to travel and meet new people. You will always know when she is around because of her contagious laughter.

Anne Moncion

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Illustration is Anne’s playground, whereas programming is her hunting ground. As a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Design, a lover of prose, a daily adventurer, a citizen of Earth, she does not believe a single label can be assigned to her. She draws her energy from the diversity of her experiences and her desire for learning, discovering, and being carried away by new challenges never runs dry. As a designer, Anne embraces the Web’s world and the frantic pace of its evolution, but does not set aside the raw and impulsive beauty of handmade work: she loves to shape uncommon universes in the midst of reality and virtuality. This versatility, perhaps, is her greatest strength.

Anna Luisa Lopes

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Anna is a multidisciplinary designer and artist with a variety of interests. Her primary focus lies in illustration, print, and web design. During her time at Concordia, she developed an interest in clothing design and broadened her knowledge in three-dimensional object-making. She strives to create designs that are both immersive and playful. Outside the realm of design, Anna has an interest in learning languages, cycling, and watching Harrison Ford movies.

Alexandra Durand

www.alexdurand.design

Alexandra comes from a Science and Literature background. She ended up in Design because many things excite her. Her passions include writing, reading, languages, mathematics, and knitting. While she can easily imagine objects in space, her expertise lies in graphic design. She loves anything book-related, and specialized in book design and bookbinding. Her design practice explores both words and materiality, especially the idea of the tactile. She is an avid learner, seeking knowledge through the continuation of an academic career and a multitude of life experiences.

Alyssa Zwonok

www.alyssazwonokdesign.com

Alyssa has always been a very optimistic person with a perseverant personality. She is often perceived as being organized, punctual, mature, personable, and outgoing. As a perfectionist, she never settles for the minimum. She is a team leader as well as a working member, and always offers her opinion. Her surroundings have established her as a good salesperson, negotiator, and marketer. Alyssa has fallen in love with branding; she presents her work with passion and professionalism. Her goal is to develop her freelance business into a collaborative graphic design firm and share her skills and knowledge with curious new designers.

Abejane Lou Alvarez

As a graphic designer, Abe embraces clarity and ingenuity in design. She believes that positive attitude helps ease the surrounding tension. Positive vibes lead to efficiency, co-operation, good design solutions, and extraordinary results. Research and exploration lead to ingenious concepts that strengthen design.