The Anarchy of the Imagination
The goal of my thesis year in The School of Visual Art’s Products of Design program was to develop empathy between pedestrians and bicyclists. I wanted to influence the design of our cities to curb ...
I Don’t Vote
A Non-Voting Booth targeting college students designed to provoke dialog while simulating voting behaviors to condition those who don’t vote. This provocation was installed in Washington Square Park on Mid-term election day 2014 and individuals ...
Human Being
Human Being, aka “Gender-Neutral Humanistic Heart-Centered Communication System” enables users to communicate through a simple to learn system of symbols that can be implemented within several mediums such as wood, fabric, embroidery and plexiglass as ...
Breathing Lessons
Given the task of redesigning the midlife crisis, perceived to be a pop-cultural phenomenon, and often characterized by men abandoning wives and looking ridiculous in pursuit of younger women, shattering marriages, and buying bright, fancy ...
Milker
Milker is an online community dedicated to supporting the right of individuals to drink delicious, healthy, raw milk from grass-fed dairy cows. Milker members use the Milker App to rate the quality of milk and ...
Good Company Magazine
Good Company™ is a new food magazine founded on the premise that one should focus on the quality of relationship versus the quantity of effort when entertaining, preparing and sharing food with friends and family. ...
Pelotown
The Pelotown logo, unique brightly colored bags, the App, and the website, comprise a highly visible branded system designed to encourage community and healthy lifestyles, while engaging with and improving the infrastructure of the successful ...
Hudson Clove
This brief documentary examines the difficulties faced by a small garlic farmer Hudson Clove as they participate for the first time at the New Amsterdam Market in New York City. The farmers highlight the difficulty ...
Nocturnal Emissions
Excessive exposure to the Internet and the attendant exposure to non-sequitur impairs your ability to dream. Nocturnal Emissions solves this problem, allowing us to reconnect with our cultural codices by mashing up random tweets ...
Design Interventions
One of my goals as a designer, after manipulating images and sounds for many years primarily on a computer was to engage more with the physical world. The opportunity came during my first 5 weeks ...
Dogtown
Dogtown is the end product of a three-week design research investigation on users, needs, and existing Skymall products. It’s a service founded on the belief that everyone loves dogs, but dogs are a lot of ...
Industrial Narratives
The typical “corporate” message film begins prescriptively and seldom transcends the box of knowing already instilled by an organization’s pre-existing corporate culture. I make short documentary films about your company using Design Research and Thinking ...