About

I design, prototype, and build brands and interactions full of expressive type, fun motion, bold colors, and minimal line-work. Sometimes I write and speak about design. My craft is the way I speak to the world, I work to help others find their voice and make them successful.

I believe that collaborative design systems are the key to unlocking the future of collaboration.

I view design tooling as a focus, with collaboration, learning, and load balancing as goals. Where in physical space I create artifacts, in digital space I assemble tools for making those artifacts.

I work with happy organizations and individuals to create fun experiences, bring new technologies to life, foster equitable systems, enable new economies, and find climate balance. I lead and direct teams, and prefer to setup new ones.

My story moves through honing my craft and my mission to foster creative community.

I started my journey in Tallahassee, FL, where I went to school, graduated, and started working in design for the first time. After building up my skills, I went on to work for myself and build Foremost, a creative collective that would offer design services and urban placemaking through a freelance network of friends.

After creating some large projects in TLH, I moved to Cambridge to work with IDEO to build up a food systems focused design and innovation lab called Food + Future CoLab, a partnership between Target, IDEO, and MIT Media Lab.

This initial project grew into IDEO CoLab, A collaborative innovation lab inside of IDEO that ran design sprints year round with member companies who would work together rather than individually to solve large systemic problems.

I became obsessed with creating a craft culture for CoLab, and came to love working with and mentoring the many design fellows that came through our lab, teaching them to build to think and the ins and outs of human-centered design. For five years, we iterated CoLab’s visuals, message, and focus areas as the world moved endlessly on. As a part of this practice, I adopted Figma for the lab in 2016 as a design tool that could act as a high level design tool: that was free to access, worked across operating systems, and allowed our teams of varying skill levels in design craft to rapidly work together. I developed a love for creating these design systems and blueprints for teams to enable each other to do better design. Even once CoLab had moved on from technology focus, I still wanted to keep building collaborative tools.

Ever since then, I’ve had guiding principles for my work to foster creative community, craft wellbeing, and design enablement across many different areas and industries.

I’ve been working across the gamut for creative software companies like Adobe, to climate and quantum computing tech like Scope6 and Zapata Computing hoping to plant these seeds of creativity within tech-focused design to bring forth the art in the machine.

Most recently I worked with the good people at Station Labs to create a decentralized platform for creative and technical workers to own their job history and contributions when working with companies.

I’m currently working with the design team I assembled at the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General directing Interaction design for new initiatives to combat loneliness in America, and foster social connection.

And that’s my story so far. Keep coming back for more updates.

What I can offer

Design Mentorship

A large part of my passion is driven towards helping experienced designers get unstuck, and new-to-the-profession designers find their path in the design industry. Contact me to talk, inbox is always open!

Logo design

The design of logo and brand identities, along with brand guidelines and design systems for new concepts.

Illustration

Creation of graphics for and illustrations for cover, spot, or icon use. Editorial projects are priced by license.

Product Design

Creation of design systems for web applications and user interfaces for digital/physical products or services. I have physical prototyping skills for hardware design, and love to bring brands to life into physical and digitally paired devices.

Motion Design and Animation

Storyboarding and Animation of narratives, as well as design direction of animation. I have experience combining live-action video with 2D product animation in addition to fully comp-based animation, working in 2D and some 3D environments using tools like After Effects, Premiere, Cavalry, Spline, and Blender.

Website Design

Design and implementation of marketing websites or web apps (static or content managed). I usually prefer to pair with engineers on projects for full implementation, but I have web development and prototyping skills for creating interactive web animations using CSS, JS, HTML, React, and SVG animation libraries. For no-code instances, I have experience working in Webflow, Framer, Squarespace, and Cargo environments.

Spatial design

Design and direction of physical event brands and spaces, along with interactive installations and placemaking. I have experience creating projection mapped projects using Madmapper and Arena Resolume 6.

Web 3D design

Creation of Interactive 3D scenes designed and implemented in Spline. I have experience creating and handing off Spline scenes to on-staff developers and optimizing for development environments, as well as crafting scenes in threejs editor for threejs implementation.

I would love the chance to work with more clients working on:

Climate science and carbon drawdown technologies

Space manufacturing and satellite management

Food science and technology

Synthetic biology

Food services and hospitality

Quantum computing software systems

Fusion power technologies

Circular economy systems and solutions

Co-operative communities and organizations

Urban reuse and placemaking

Public health initiatives

I’m incredibly lucky to say I’ve gotten the chance to work with:

Ford

Target

MIT Media Lab

IDEO

Fidelity Investments

Liberty Mutual

Duke Energy

Exelon

Danone

Bluecross Blueshield

Gehl

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

H&M

Kroger

Nasdaq

Citi

The City of San Jose

Electrolux

Chaincore

Braintrust

GS Shop

Handshake

Messari

Zapata Computing

The U.S. Office of the Surgeon General

Adobe

KPMG

CVS Pharmacy

Aetna

TBWA

Station Labs

Florida State University

I/SEE

Hypertherm

Kyu Collective