About

Design Philosophy

I approach every project with the same impulse: something exists that hasn't reached the version of itself where form and performance feel inevitable. A stock car exhaust with a flat note becomes a Fusion 360 redesign and a 3D-printed replacement. A crested gecko without a proper habitat becomes a desktop-scale rainforest build. A blank page becomes forty hours of colored pencil rendering on a hyperrealistic Manhattan cocktail. If an object or environment falls short of its potential, I want to redesign it.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Jony Ive shape the way I see design problems. Wright believed a house should never sit on a hill but grow out of it, belonging to it. Fallingwater is the proof. Every time I look at that building I feel the same thing: the structure and the landscape need each other. Ive came at design from the object scale, but with the same devotion. He argued that true simplicity is not the absence of complexity but the resolution of it, and that when something has been genuinely cared for, that care is legible in the final form. Those convictions guide everything I make. Whether I am modifying a car to look and sound the way it should have left the factory, or engineering an enclosure that makes a crested gecko feel like it is back in the Isle of Pines, I am working toward the same resolution. The moment where form and function stop being separate conversations.

I work across CAD, 3D printing, traditional fine art, photography, woodworking, and metalsmithing. My artwork has been published in the Chicago Tribune, won several art contests and I volunteer at Little Blueprints Art Studio where I help teach art classes to kids.