This project won 2nd Place in the Philadelphia Museum of Arts Collab Design Competition in 2009. The brief was to design a "tabletop luminaire" that reflected...

Inspired by the brand Alessi, this desktop accessory set was an entry into the 2010 Alessi Collab Student Design Contest at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Each...

We were given the opportunity to work with two people from Liberty Resources, a non-profit organization that advocates and promotes independent living for persons...

Working with GreensGrow farms, an urban farm here in Philadelphia, we were able to create a low cost, flexible, and easy solution to resale shelving. On site...

This project is about creating a universal icon that is to be relevant and readable to the gardening and seed community. The icon is meant to act an indicator...

Nature affords the world it's own perfect design solutions. I found inspiration from the rhinophore (antennae) of the common nudibranch (or sea slug). Their...

This design is based around observations of a classmates working habits. My partner Mark is an avid woodworker who finds himself regularly needing to readily mark...

Through my internship for Design Philadelphia in 2009, I had the opportunity conceptualize, sketch, and realize ideas that benefited the week long event. Design...

This piece is meant to illustrate how a piece of furniture can be made sustainable not only in materiality but also by encouraging prolonged use. This object...

Addressing the modern urban camper, this shelter is set up instantly with minimal assembly time. Our goal was to achieve a full sized shelter set up in under 5...

I wanted to take advantage of how a 3D printer layers out it's material to rapidly prototype an object. I took inspiration from the patterns and lines the machine...

An experiment in making, this series of birdhouses were executed and built to be a part of a 6 block street installation in Philadelphia. In total, I built 25...

This is an assessment of the functionality and design of a Universal Laser Systems laser cutter. By using the height information, arm length information, and a...

This series of sketches and process photographs are to illustrate an interest I had in finding a new solution for unconventional joinery. I wanted to experiment...

A "ritual & routine" based project, the Step Flush is a playful series of retrofits for public restrooms. While observing users and their bathroom habits, we...

Finding a meditative space in an urban environment is not easy. Sirens, cars and vehicles, air conditioners, and the like are all noises we find difficult to...

This playful concept wearable came out of a two day charrette within my industrial design department in 2008. We were addressing the topic of the H1N1 virus,...

I built this bench to sit outside under an awning while living and working in Huaraz Peru in 2010. + Made of locally harvested wood, eucalyptus bracing, foam,...

The goal of this experiment was to recycle a discarded orange juice container into a functional ready made object. This playful and simple lantern can be hooked...

This was a study to help me in the working with a semi-rigid material. Made of felt, I was exploring design opportunities using a soft yet structural component...

This was part of a semantics assignment where we were encouraged to ideate new takes on communication via an objects and their meanings. Feel, materiality,...

This concept for a graphic tee shirt was an attempt to meld natural imagery with modernity through structural forms and shapes that are found in nature themselves.

Considering form, iconography, and semantics of an object this is a conceptual pharmaceutical product. An oxygen cigarette. I wanted the forms to remain...

This playful product is meant to showcase the tension between the association of hand tools as being masculine and the doll being of a feminine association.

This was an experiment into simple circuitry for use in soft goods and textiles. The touching of the thumb to the middle finger connects the circuit.

This packaging example is meant to illustrate the effectiveness of clean and simple graphic design and branding.

Through the lens of material research, this project is meant to illustrate the potential effectiveness of using a soft material for die-cut customization. Called...