Lisa Zimmerman, CEO/Principal
Lisa founded 7Story as a new way to create public spaces that strengthen, engage and celebrate communities. With a love of contemporary art and design, she was fascinated with the new ways people can be engaged in public processes as well as public spaces. But she saw that the traditional planning/design framework often fell short. A new interdisciplinary approach was needed.

7Story integrates marketing/branding with urban art and design. It builds on Lisa's 20-year career as a marketing, communications and engagement specialist working with diverse organizations and communities across the Bay Area. As CEO of her own consulting firm, Z-Communications, she designed and implemented market research, strategic planning, public engagement campaigns, and multi-platform communication programs. Clients included UCSF, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, Marin County Free Library, Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

Before launching 7Story, Lisa was Director of Marketing for MKThink, an architectural innovator in San Francisco. The firm's creative approach to pre-design strategic planning was a strong source of inspiration.

Lisa has received grants from the Marin Arts Council and California Council for the Humanities. As the creator/producer of Enlightened Spaces, an interdisciplinary series, she is actively involved with AIA, ASLA and Cultural Connections.

Raised in Washington, D.C., Lisa graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English. Her first love was theater.


Brian Moore, Creative Director
Brian has partnered with Lisa for over ten years and is a creative force that refuses to be confined to any one discipline. With a 30-year career as a graphic designer, he is also a painter and photographer with a studio at the Hunters Point Shipyard.

A key feature of his work is community participation, particularly with youth. His three-story Teen Art Quilt, created by 100 students for the Solano County Department of Public Health, has traveled the country. He is currently leading an art initiative with over 50 children in Hunters Point to create a mural and revitalize the Hunters Point Youth Park.

Brian is founder/director of the Pigman Gallery, an alternative art gallery that has shown Hunters Point artists Joe Sam, Kay Kang, Kathy Voutyras and Malik Seneferu; animal rights activist and artist Sue Coe; ten year old Ryan Trumpler; Burning Man sculptors Laura Kimpton and Jeff Schomberg; and multicultural painter Elly Simmons, among others.

Since 2004 Brian has directed his own creative design firm, 499 Commute. Leading teams of graphic designers, writers, photographers, fine artists and digital artists, he has developed marketing and public engagement projects for clients such as Goodwill Industries, Solano County Department of Public Health, San Francisco Department of Children Youth and Their Families, Walter and Elise Haas Fund and AIDS Project Los Angeles.

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