I created a new website for this venerable sustainable furniture company just in time for their 30-year anniversary. The goal was to turn the furniture catalog into a gallery of fine art, reflecting the dedication and care of the craftsmen who made each piece.
I designed and coded completely custom templates for the front end of the site. For the back end I implemented the Concrete5 CMS and custom-design modules, allowing the client to easily change the content later.
Role: Web Designer / Developer
Skills: HTML, CSS, Javascript
Technology: Concrete5 CMS
Laurence Guillem's incredible photographs needed a website that wouldn't distract. I stripped the navigation and graphics down to their bare minimum, letting the images speak for themselves
Role: Web Designer, Web Developer
Skills: HTML, CSS
Technology: Squarespace (Customized)
Tasked with improving the performance of Matr Boomie's product line of artisan-made gifts, I identified a target market position between four constrasting aesthetic styles. We used this framework, combined with analysis of sales data, to improve product launch success (according to internal benchmarks) from 45% to 72% avg.
By combining the familiarity of a crossword puzzle with easily remembered security questions, making and remembering passwords becomes a game. Just as "The best camera is the one you have with you", the best password manager is the one you want to use.
Published: Trust Design: The Internet of Things by Scott Burnham
I created this website for a jewelry line I designed.
'Hitchhikers' are tiny figures who ride, climb, and play on your body. They are ride-alongs, spectators, visitors, and guests. They are jewelry for the adventurous and the bold.
Role: Web Designer / Developer
Technology: Squarespace (Customized)
“i didn’t thank you” is a project to express our appreciation for people that we didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t thank. More than 300 people participated during two weeks by writing a thank you note to someone they wished they had or could thank. The displayed thank you notes show the gratitude people feel even when they don’t express it.
Designed For: Personal Project
Role: Design, Fabrication
“Creation: Week 2” retells the Genesis story as a history of water management as if the Dutch took over after God finished.
The history of the Netherlands is intertwined with water management. Centuries of projects to increase the amount of usable land through flood prevention and land reclamation have resulted in the perception by the Dutch that the Netherlands is, literally, a place of their own creation.This project explores this perception through a satirical pop-up book.
Designed For: Personal Project
Role: Graphic Designer, Illustrator
Since coal mining ended in the Netherlands in the 1960s, nearly all traces have been removed from the landscape. Today, almost nothing remains of this 100-year period of history.
Under a policy known as “van zwart naar groen” or “from black to green,” much of the old mining area was transformed into green space. Inspired by this policy and taking cues from the iconic Chia Pet, I designed a souvenir intended to act as a reminder of a period of history that is being systematically erased. With the help of chia seeds, this model of an old mining structure will literally transform “from black to green.”
Designed For: Student Project
Role: Design, Ceramics Fabrication
Slow Structures is a construction system that forces the user to create products slowly while using the natural properties of the materials to replace energy-intensive processes. The system consists of brass brackets and ropes with a simple tension mechanism. These components can be used to make a variety of objects and structures from a coat rack and tabletop supports to space dividers and small-scale architecture.
The process requires 3-5 months to slowly bend the wood as it dries. Once the wood is dry, the structure is permanent.
Designed For: Master's Thesis, Design Academy Eindhoven
Role: Product Designer, Fabrication
After spending a year pushing the brand in a more modern direction, I devised the lookbook as a way to reintroduce the company to old clients as well as bring in new clients. The pieces are shown in an idyllic outdoor setting suggesting the authenticity and beauty of the furniture.
We mailed 500 to current and prospective clients and distributed another one thousand at the Armory Show and the Architectural Digest Show.
Designed For: Tucker Robbins Inc.
Role: Art Director, Stylist, and Primary Photographer
‘Hope & Leroy’ is a narrative project combining a new fairy tale with a series of eight jewelry pieces illustrating scenes from the story. The text is written in the fashion of traditional fairy tales, with dark themes and unexplained events, but the style incorporates modern influences.
The modern approach to the narrative continues in the jewelry collection. The pieces were designed and produced using primarily digital methods including laser cutting and algorithmic design with RhinoScript.
Designed For: Bachelor's Honors Thesis
Role: Product Design, Fabrication
Hitchhikers is a jewelry line I developed and produced. I also designed the website.
'Hitchhikers' are tiny figures who ride, climb, and play on your body. They are ride-alongs, spectators, visitors, and guests. They are jewelry for the adventurous and the bold.'
Designed For: Personal Project
Role: Product Design, Photography
