Hi there!
Here’s a little about me

“Who belongs to this question?”

This was how our design professors would joke about our projects.

My first plunge into the design world was 5 years of architecture design school where I not only learned design thinking, but also the value of iteration. Our projects were questions to be answered, problems to be solved. We were encouraged to abandon preconceived notions, to explore through making and doing, to be disruptive and “MAKE MISTAKES FASTER”.

My drive to keep exploring brought me to a masters program at Tokyo University where my interest in part-to-whole design systems yielded in a quick dive into computational scripting and the conceptual consumer product Solgami.

As a token foreigner in Japan, I found a huge range of unusual opportunities open to me. In my years working there, I was able to work on presentation pitches for billion-dollar architecture projects. I was also able to work with rural nonprofits and artisans in designing and promoting products, representing them at international design festivals.

Always the outsider looking in on these fascinating projects, I quickly understood the value of a unique perspective.

Now coming into the world of product design, my education has taught me to never stop asking questions.

My travels have taught me to look for other perspectives. My design experience has taught me that a designed thing is not static.

There is a whole world of parts and components coming together, breathing life and brimming with intent. And as perfect as a project may look on paper, in a mockup, or in a render, it has infinitely more value when it is released into the wild and allowed to fail and grow.