Our Founder
Vinnie spent twenty years inside the industry that competes for your child’s attention. So she began building the opposite.
For over two decades, Vinnie Mehta worked as a digital artist on Hollywood films and television, Captain America, John Carter, Smallville, and many more. She was nominated for a Gemini Award in Canada for Best Visual Effects on Stargate SG-1, for the episode Beachhead.
That craft never left her work. As a visual storyteller and UX designer, Vinnie designs every Nanosarte workshop and product herself, merging the narrative instinct of film with the human-centered thinking of design. It’s why a Nanosarte session isn’t just an art class, and a Nanosarte product isn’t just a printed mug. Each one is built to help a child think, create, and connect.
From the inside of the entertainment industry, she saw something that stayed with her: how much craft, budget, and psychology goes into capturing a child’s attention and keeping it. The merchandise, the sequels, the endless content, all engineered so brilliantly that a child could spend their whole imagination consuming, and never make a single thing of their own.
That was the change she wanted to make. Vinnie started Nanosarte in 2014 in Singapore to help children express their own original art, rather than consume someone else’s.
Over time, the mission grew clearer. Vinnie came to see Nanosarte as a simple chain: when a child spends less time consuming screens and more time making something of their own, that creation becomes a bridge, most powerfully to grandparents, who often live across cities, countries, and languages. A child’s art needs no translation. It carries values, culture, and story in a form a grandparent can hold. And a child who creates, connects, and is celebrated for it grows into someone self-reliant, imaginative, and unafraid to tinker, question, and play. That is what Nanosarte is really building: not products, but resilient young creative thinkers, connected to where they come from.
She believes that when a child’s own art becomes something a family uses every day, it:
- Brings conversations and bonds families and friends together
- Empowers kids and builds self-belief
- Enhances creative thinking and self-expression
Since 2016, she has run creative workshops and talks for families on creativity and screen time, including a family digital detox talk with more than twenty participants. The idea has stayed the same throughout: a pencil and a smartphone can hold a child’s attention equally. Only one of them leaves something behind.
Today, that vision lives in Nanosarte’s custom gifts and workshops, and in what comes next. Now based in Vancouver, Vinnie is dedicated to helping families create memories that last, nurturing children’s creativity and imagination, and ensuring they are supported by technology, not dependent on it.
AI is just the new pencil. The connection is entirely human.
Want to bring Nanosarte to your organization, school, or community?
Vinnie partners with family labs, community centres, and cultural organizations on workshops and creative programs. Email info@nanosarte.com.
