El Designo is a environmentally conscious design studio located in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. We use our wrestling skills to protect the environment, battling papers that lead to deforestation, inks that lead to pollution and printing techniques that create waste. Our design training facility is located deep underground. Here we train our design wrestlers to think differently about graphic design. We offer eco-options in print design and packaging design, as well as products and promotions.
Marc Nipp: Print Designer, Illustrator, Owner, AKA “El Artistico”
Marc has been in the wrestling circuit for 13 years, performing in rings large and small all over Edmonton. He even trained junior design wrestlers at MacEwan University for a while. He is gifted with sideburns of power that collect and focus creative energy and channel it to his brain,
making his designs unstoppable. As his alter ego, El Artistico, he dons the cape of illustration and the tights of craftsmanship and performs in the ring, much to the dismay of his wife.
Marc Nipp has had 13 years design experience in various advertising agencies, print shops and design studios. Those experiences include: sales, customer service, scheduling, product/project development, marketing, organizing, advertising, and negotiating. Marc also has
4 years experience as an Design Instructor at MacEwan – Centre for the Arts. Skills acquired here include: training, operations, coordinating, negotiating, scheduling, and public speaking. Marc is an artist and illustrator with 30 years experience in: illustration, painting, sculpting and building. Ten years working as an assistant woodworker have developed his sense of quality craftsmanship, attention to detail and the ability to work with his hands.
Marc holds a diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration from MacEwan University, and broadens his artistic skills by enrolling in as many illustration seminars as he can.
Patrick O’Kane: Web Designer, Owner, AKA “El Técnico”
Patrick is a technical specialist in the design ring. With eyes that read code and reflexes that put his dog Milo to shame he has trained to become a digital master in the design ring. Known as El Técnico, his fans chant in unison as he walks toward the ring for another day of wrestling print design, web design, and marketing.
“ Tec-nic-o” “ Tec-nic-o” “ Tec-nic-o”
Patrick O’Kane has a broad array of experience in both marketing and graphic design: sales, managing groups, customer service, media analysis, market analysis, campaign marketing, co-operative advertising, radio scripting, and public speaking. Patrick is fluent in web languages
such as css/html and php for designing websites and doing front end web development. Not restricted to web and digital design, Patrick also creates corporate identities and other various print media.
Patrick holds a diploma in Business – Marketing Major and Print and Web Design Certificate from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Patrick is a member of various websites that promote identities, print design and web design companies around the world.
Edmonton, AB
2008 Best of Show Marketing Association for Credit Unions, Achievement in Marketing Excellence Lakeland Credit Union • Annual Report 2008 ACE Award of Distinction Annual Report • Lakeland Credit Union 2006 Premier’s Award of Excellence AED Promo materials