That belief means my work embraces many forms: visual, editorial, experiential, and strategic design, teaching and writing. Design shapes not only what we see, but how we understand ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
I am particularly interested in how design can inspire a new emotional landscape of agency, hope, possibility and imagination. It can bridge the distance between our now, defined by the end of predictable progress, and what could be next once our imaginations take flight.
In this sense, design becomes less about products, brands, or services, and more about creating a new feeling.
I currently serve as Senior Advisor, Design at SYPartners and work as an independent design consultant. I am also a faculty member in the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, where I teach Design Opportunities, a course that invites students to identify potential new projects, before a design brief begins, through unmet social needs.
Earlier in my career, I spent nearly a decade as Senior Art Director at Milton Glaser's studio, working alongside Milton and discussing and designing any manner of things . That experience reinforced a lesson that continues to guide my work today: design is not simply a profession or discipline. It is an orientation to the world.
My fascination with design began as a teenager reading Rolling Stone magazine, wondering why pages about Axl Rose looked different from pages about Sinéad O'Connor. What started as a wonder about visual expression evolved into the most complex question about humanity and our world:
Why are things the way they are? How did they come to be and how can we design them to be otherwise?
That question continues to drive my work to this day and I remain devoted to design and its potential for our world.
