RESEARCH
The unique value of design, I feel, resides in its techniques for approaching, framing and engaging problems (whether industrial design, urban planning, visual communications or environmental design, for example). I tend to frame such research as inextricable from processes of making, whether iteration, investigation or experimentation that seeks or expands boundaries of material and technique, concept and medium, craft and communication.
Along with consulting, collaboration and experimental design production activities, I’ve always been drawn to examination of design’s vibrant social, critical, historical and contemporary contexts and influences, and am especially interested in processes of ‘design thinking’ as put forward, for example, by innovative practical theorists like IDEO and publications like Design Issues. From an educational standpoint, I am also interested in pedagogical issues and aims surrounding motion design within institutions of higher learning.
Perhaps in part due to an undergraduate background firmly anchored in the Liberal Arts, I also enjoy engaging the design community through occasional speaking, writing and critical analysis of a range of topics and issues pertinent to the discipline.
THINKING & WRITING
(a slice of work/writing)
From Verbal to Graphic: 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) Speaker: Approaches in Typographic Education
Re-Surfacing: Technology Expanding the Horizon, A Reinterpretation and Investigation of the Landscape (Ohio State University): Juried Sound and Motion Design, “Aphasia” Symposium site | Show Site
“Cramming Conceptual Abilities into Design Curricula” AIGA Voice | direct link to article