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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 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...