Leadership
H. Aaron
Ekinoglu - Founder
H. Aaron Ekinoglu, PhD, is a highly skilled urban designer with nearly two decades of
multidisciplinary experience spanning urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning.
His work bridges design strategy, public‑sector leadership, and forward‑looking research on the
future of creativity in the age of generative AI. Ekinoglu co‑directed Istanbul’s successful bid
for the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, securing the city’s permanent “City of Design”
designation with full endorsement from the Network. His academic contributions include a 2020
published paper examining how generative AI is reshaping architectural design and creative
practice. Across his career, he has remained committed to advancing more connected, equitable,
and creatively empowered cities through integrated urban landscapes and design‑driven
innovation.
Board
of Advisors
Carol Du - Advisor
A multidisciplinary instructional designer with deep roots in human–computer interaction, UI
systems, and generative + agentic AI, Carol specialized in shaping learning and creative
experiences where humans and intelligent systems co‑create. Carol had her instructional designer
degree from Columbia University's Teachers College. With a background that bridges interaction
design, cognitive learning theory, and AI‑driven workflow design, she builds environments where
complex information becomes intuitive, adaptive, and beautifully structured. Her work spans
digital products, creative tools, and next‑generation educational platforms—crafting interfaces
that learn from users, anticipate needs, and elevate human creativity. As both a designer and an
AI strategist, Carol translates emerging technologies into meaningful, human–centered
experiences that empower artists, designers, and organizations to work smarter and imagine more.
Core
Blueprint Intelligence
Designiamo Core Engine is a multi‑modal creative intelligence built on Google’s AI stack and
extended for the full spectrum of art and design. It ingests real creative work—images, text,
flows, sound, and structure—from architects, fashion designers, product designers, digital
artists, interaction designers, museum curators, and more. On top of Vertex AI, BigQuery, and
vector search, we add our own creative graph, role‑aware agents, and project memory, turning
general‑purpose AI into a purpose‑built engine that can match teams, co‑develop concepts, and
nudge decisions toward better aesthetics, better experiences, and lower climate impact. What
makes Designiamo uniquely investable is its neural‑network‑led portfolio intelligence: artists,
designers, brands, and institutions can discover talent through highly specific
prompts—“architects working with porous brick and light,” “fashion designers exploring circular
denim,” “sound designers for contemplative museum spaces”—and instantly see the right
portfolios. Designiamo is the AI‑powered global marketplace for artists and designers, where
discovery, matching, and collaboration are not a feature but a core skill of the engine itself.
In short: Google builds the models; Designiamo turns them into a creative operating system for
the global design economy.