Noa Alxndr is a nonbinary creative who understands the transformative power of design and its unspoken influence in our daily lives. They channel their passions into building products and brands that speak to the soul and leave a positive footprint on our planet. They use empathy throughout the creative process to find elegant, functional solutions that center a person’s emotional responses to every graphic and object in front of them. The product development industry often ignores or dilutes the people outside a white, neurotypical, cis-het male perspective. This motivates Noa to build things with awareness of whose voices are being amplified or silenced.
With the planet becoming overrun by greed, carbon emissions, and human waste, brands have a responsibility to be intentional about the things they produce. Their products go beyond the user experience, beckoning for ethical sources for materials, conscious methods for manufacturing, and offering outlets for their discarded creations. Businesses hold the power to be catalysts for social change, and Noa Alxndr is willing to work alongside them to foster innovation and authenticity.
Noa Alxndr holds a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Design from DAAP, and has become a master of the creative process with a variety of skillsets. They specialize in environmentally-conscious manufacturing and brand development. They are looking to collaborate with passionate creators who are focused on a better tomorrow.
In honoring the land in which Noa Alxndr resides,
they solemnly acknowledge the atrocities Indigenous nations experienced
at the hands of white colonizers that forced them off their homelands
and plunged them into social mockery and erasure.
Noa has lived in 3 different areas of Shawnee Nation Lands.
Their hometown outside of Cleveland overlapped with Wyandot and Delaware Nations.
Studying in Cincinnati brought them on lands belonging to the Miami Nation.
Their current city of Pittsburgh is the ancestral home of the Haudenosaunee and Lenape Nations.
These lands were stolen with brutal violence,
ultimatums disguised as treaties,
illnesses planted on vulnerable people,
and every means to restrict resources.
Colonizers then used enslaved persons from another continent
to build their homes, farms, and city centers.
All of these actions are war crimes
repeatedly devaluing the human spirit in the search for profit.
The families of these colonizers still inhabit this land today,
still spreading toxins
still pursuing profit
still committing atrocities.
We have a bright future if we take action
under leadership and counsel from Indigenous peoples
and the millions of people the American mentality has harmed.