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Co-founder and managing director

Zoë is one of the co-founders and directors at Uscreates. Zoë’s focus is the ongoing development of new work streams and systems to ensure Uscreates generates new, and more importantly, good business.

Before founding Uscreates, Zoë worked as a designer and project manager in both the private and public sector. Zoë studied design at Goldsmiths College before embarking on a varied career working in the television industry, retail design, design research and high profile events management. Zoë was a founding member of the design collective Us&Us and this collaborative work motivated her to initiate Uscreates with fellow member Mary Rose Cook.

Zoë and Mary won the prestigious NESTA Creative Pioneer Award in 2006 for their innovative and creative business model to approach social issues through design and marketing. Zoë was named as a Future 500 Young Social Entrepreneur during Global Entrepreneurship Week, as well as one of the UK’s future 500 ‘movers and shakers’ by Observer / Courvoisier. She is also a fellow of Goldsmiths Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Zoë is a Senior Producer on the Design Council’s Design of the Times (Dott) programme.