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At COOOP Design Agency, our team of creative thinkers and skilled professionals brings your vision to life. With expertise across design disciplines, we collaborate to deliver innovative, tailored solutions. Driven by passion and excellence, we push boundaries to exceed expectations, creating impactful experiences that elevate brands.

Team

Meet the core team members of COOOP.

Callie van der Merwe

Principal & Creative Director
Australia

Callie van der Merwe

Callie began his career as an Architect in the early 1990’s before changing over to Interior Architecture in the early 2000’s. Since then, he has completed multiple award winning and successful commercial interior spaces all over the world with a signature philosophical approach of design for predictive behaviour.​

Nominated Architect: Callie van der Merwe, NSW Architects Registration Number: 11896

Calvin Janse van Vuuren

Senior Associate

Calvin Janse van Vuuren

Calvin Janse van Vuuren is a hospitality-focused interior designer with over a decade of experience shaping restaurants, cafés, and commercial spaces across Australia and internationally. His work sits at the intersection of culture, human behaviour, and environment where design is not the starting point, but the considered response to deeply understood problems. Through immersive research, storytelling, and environmental thinking, Calvin creates spaces that offer meaning, connection, and respite.

Roberto Zambri

Senior Associate

Roberto Zambri

Roberto's approach offers a considered and skillful blend of art and design to create engaging and holistic interior spaces.

His designs are based on a strong individual character of minimalism with a skillful blend of specific to region culture and arts, resulting in rich transcendent engaging spaces.

Ricardo Rocha

Brand and UX/UI Director Netherlands

Ricardo Rocha

Ricardo Rocha is a brand and UI/UX designer focused on bridging brand promise with user-centered design. He combines strategy, insights, and innovative tools to create seamless experiences that align business goals with user needs, ensuring impactful and effective design solutions.

Monique Steenkamp

Design Technician

Monique Steenkamp

Monique has over a decade of expertise in producing technical documentation of the highest standard in both Architecture and Interior Design, Monique has a keen eye for detail, process-oriented mindset, and is highly skilled in the BIM ecosystem ensure precision and innovation in every project. She’s the backbone of our technical excellence.

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