ABOUT
WITH Melanie Ryan
Professionally, I'm a Business Development + Marketing Consultant. I specialize in products and professional services for design, architecture and culture oriented clients.
My passion for the built environment has led to careers as Accounts Lead at a creative agency representing award-winning architectural clients to Marketing Director for a prolific Southern California real estate developer to Business Development consulting for clients positioning themselves in Los Angeles.
I bring together the like-minded and uncover collaborations.
I aim to work with innovators revered in their industries, that wish to expand brand positioning and nurture opportunities in untapped markets. As an independent consultant, I enjoy teaming with other agencies as well as a localized extension to their capabilities. I graduated from Rollins College with degree in Environmental Studies and especially seek out people and projects with a nature-oriented mindset, even in the urban landscapes I'm often in.
I also co-founded a design studio called OPEN for humans, with my architect partner Todd Sussman, which we work on smaller scale/independent projects. Here is a link to his professional portfolio. With our studio together, we focus on more artful site specific-design, objects and spatial installations.
On the personal side, I'll be chronicling the design and construction progress of our modern, residential dwelling called VEER House. Located in Echo Park.
Affiliations:
Female Design Council
Ticco
Conscious Capitalism LA
recent writing samples below:
Eye my feature "OPEN HIGH" in issue
7EVEN of UNDO ORDINARY
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Issue 7EVEN Breaking Habits: Addictions, Prescriptions and Supplements
As creatures of habit, we create systems to provide comfort and ease. Be it life’s trials, love’s quarrels, family drama, or just the need to be free, we all find escapism in some type of routine. This issue is an exploration into all of the things that make us the same. The secrets of our truths and how we use our time here to impact others. We exist in a culture that obsesses over art while ignoring the madness of artistry. Fluorescents in a room of smoke and mirrors. Not everything we see is what it seems and this magazine is positioned to offer truth to those who seek it. Community-driven, our goal is to be a panacea that unites us in our ways. We’re all just trying to find the perfect footing between life and vice.
@undoordinary_
Cover image by @trianbampol + @dureen
