design

Megapixel

Building on a fascination I have with pixels, I created the megapixel font out of redwood 4×4’s. Each character contains ten white pixels. I know this breaks every rule of typography creation. I just wanted to make it. I was interested in using the same number of pixels per font. The redwood blocks are all of varying height to allow for pixelation in the vertical dimension as well.

Method Cards to Map the Masses

I made this set of method cards based on my emergent design work. This is a collected toolset that I developed in order to glean rich insights from mass numbers of people. The methods are divided into populaters (to find the boundaries of the problem), catalysts (to spark generative responses), and filters (to select specific areas to move forward).

Using the masses in the design process

World-scale ethnography. Currently, we have a lot of complex, grand design challenges in the world. We need a design toolset to address these multi-continent, multi-cultural, long time frame problems.  As designers, we search for the stories, the gems that inspire our designs. These are the ideas that inform everything about what we design. This is Using the masses in the design process

Spin Theory

Knowledge transfer through spinning Spin Theory is an exploration of ‘knowledge transfer’ as it applies to design through the creation and mapping of 66 spinning tops. As a human race, we know a lot. How do we transfer this knowledge? What does knowledge transfer mean for design? Spin theory explores these questions via the creation Spin Theory

Flappers

Great noise, great color. What more could you ask for? I made these toys as part of an assignment on movement. I’d like to do a proper photo shoot and make a new movie at some point.

Steamé

The Steamé vegetable steamer allows a user to effectively steam vegetables at an appropriate distance from water, remove the vegetables from the hot pot with a firm grip and without burning their hand, and set them to the side to drain or serve. Steamé has multiple features that are improvements on existing steamers. Each of Steamé