About Zane Michael Cooper

I’m Zane, a designer, creative director and developer. I’ve spent my career designing and building brands, products, applications, and the teams behind them, for clients from Fortune 500s to startups in almost every industry. I set the direction, build the team, and stay close to the work from first strategy to final detail. I start with the person who’ll actually use the thing, and I love taking big, dense problems and making them clear and usable.

I trained at the Rhode Island School of Design in industrial and graphic design, and cross-registered in computer science and AI at Brown. That mix, making real things while understanding the systems underneath them, still shapes how I work, and it’s why I often build what I design. On my own time I’ve created experimental AI and civic platforms, end to end, that serve the public, and explored my interests in aviation and space by building a free, downloadable widget that makes complex orbital data readable for anyone.

Aside from my wife, I’ve had three big loves in my life. Aviation, photography, and design. Design, I’m lucky enough to get to do every day. The other two keep me inspired. I started flying at fourteen, soloed on my sixteenth birthday, and earned my license at seventeen. I’m not in the cockpit as much these days, but I’m still out shooting just about every day. My photography, from ad campaigns to personal work, has run in The Atlantic, Wired, Leica Fotografie International, The New York Times, and Condé Nast, and it’s how I stay grounded and curious about the world outside the studio. Follow me on Instagram if you like!