Christopher Hoyt and Carissa Carter assume a civil war pose
Chris Hoyt and Carissa Carter
Christopher Hoyt is a designer of anything graphical and a range objects that you interact with in everyday life. His eyes are always open wide, looking for objects or methods that make life harder than it needs to be.
Hoyt’s furniture projects focus on playing with perceptions of physical proximity, and his blown glass work incorporate layers of color and form.
Hoyt has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the College for Creative Studies. Born in Buffalo, NY, he grew up in Detroit, MI, and has lived in Grand Rapids, MI for the last four years.
Carissa Carter is a designer and artist who uses cultural objects, mapping, and crowd sourcing techniques to explore themes of identity, awkwardness, and emergence. She builds skateboards that challenge the norms of form, and explores mapping of experience via iteration of physical objects.
Carter has a BA in Geosciences from Williams College, a MS in Earth Sciences from UC Santa Cruz, and a MS in Engineering-Design from Stanford University. She recently moved to Holland, MI.