VANESS
"REECE"
GARDNER.

The first venture. Rainbow Loom bracelets — designed, made, and sold by a nine-year-old who never stopped after that. Every empire starts with rubber bands.

Supreme drops. Jordan flips. Pop-ups. Learning markets in real time — scarcity, culture, hustle. Where product instinct and brand obsession were forged.

A vintage clothing brand built on sustainability and story. Recycle. Regenerate. Revolutionize. Hand-reworked denim, tapestry vests, crochet — garments given a second life.

DJ, producer, selector. Babson Sound. Campus events. The AI Showcase. Afro × Adele on a mountainside in Greece. Sets on boats off Milos. The room moves when the mix is right.

An AI-art pioneer before it had a name. While everyone else was using GPT to write their essays, I was pushing DALL·E to make real art — generating, curating, and shipping it to the world. That instinct became House of Oblivion at Miami Art Basel, an art gallery for the Alzheimer's Association, and a stakeholder dinner at Babson. Art as a vehicle for memory, community, and conversation. Tap the frame to watch.

Helped build it from the ground up. Summer research with Director Erik Noyes before the lab's October 2024 launch — part of the founding student cohort of Babson's interdisciplinary AI lab. The Generator×Microsoft Buildathon: 200+ students from Babson, Olin & Wellesley at the Weissman Foundry. Midjourney, DALL·E, Firefly — pushing text-to-image until images demanded to become objects.

The first chair designed with AI, 3D-printed, and installed on a college campus. Text → image → 3D model → Foundry prototype → robotic print in recycled wood fiber & cellulose with Decibel Made. Watch it print itself.

Biomimicry Is Nature's Design. A 3D design brand creating on-demand, AI-generated furniture. The Dam Chair was the proof. BIND is the product. "In two years, I'll 3D print a house."

Crafting tomorrow across the rooms that build the future — Babson, MIT, Harvard, Pratt — and hosting innovation conferences along the way. "It's not about shortcuts; it's about learning how to use these tools wisely."

The future of connection. NFC rings that turn introductions into instant conversation — tap rings, and AI delivers three personalized openers in two seconds. CEO & co-founder. Pre-seed. Boston-born.