Casey Hrynkow, FGDC, CGD is Senior Design Strategist at Ion Brand Design in Vancouver. Before joining Ion in April 2015, she was a principal of Herrainco Brand Strategy + Design, a strategic branding firm working with corporate, First Nations and not-for-profit organizations for over 35 years. Casey facilitates brand definition for clients and manages branding projects.
She was made a Fellow of the Socity of Graphic Designers of Canada in 2011. She served as Chair for the advisory committee to Kwantlen University College's degree-based design program and is a Sessional Instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She earned a B.Des. in Communication Design from Emily Carr and completed the Leading by Design program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, earning a Certifiicate in Innovation Leadership in 2013.
She is completing her MA in Liberal Studies at spring 2019. Her research thesis looks at how design research and design thinking methods might help shift public perceptions of homelessness.
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