Designer / researcher working with visual systems, biological processes, and emerging technologies
My practice spans commercial creative direction and experimental investigation—from brand identity and spatial design to biodesign, analog photography, and AI-assisted workflows. I believe design is not about control, but about collaboration: with materials, with time, with living systems, and with the tools we’re only beginning to understand. Based in the DMV area, I work with clients who value strategic thinking, material honesty, and work that doesn’t just look good, but feels true.
This site documents both the applied work that sustains the practice and the experimental work that nourishes the soul.
This is where process becomes content. Where failure is as valuable as success. Where time, biology, light, and error shape the work.
I DODesignwithhumanfocus
Brand identity,
visual systems,
Digital experiences
& web design
Creative direction
& art direction
Spatial design
& wayfinding
AI-assisted design workflows
This is where process becomes content. Where failure is as valuable as success. Where time, biology, light, and error shape the work.
Biodesign (kombucha, mycelium)
Collaborating with living organisms as co-creators. Bacteria, fungi, and plants become photographic surfaces, structural materials, and teachers, revealing what emerges when you design with life, not against it.
Investigating bacterial cellulose, mycelial networks, and living cultures as design materials. Photography grown from kombucha SCOBY. Textiles woven by fungi. Design as symbiosis, metabolism, and patient observation of biological processes.
Cyanotype & alternative photography
19th-century photographic processes using sunlight, iron salts, and time. Each print is unrepeatable—a collaboration between chemistry, weather, and patience. Light becomes developer. Imperfection becomes signature. Process becomes meditation.
Light-sensitive chemistry meets botanical contact printing. Exposures measured in minutes, not milliseconds. Images that oxidize, shift, and age. Photography as ritual, not capture— where unpredictability is the point, not the problem.
Neuroaesthetics & design philosophy
Research at the intersection of neuroscience and visual perception. Understanding how the brain processes form, color, and rhythm— then applying those principles to create work that doesn't just look compelling, but neurologically resonates and endures.
Design informed by how the brain actually works. Biophilic patterns that reduce stress. Visual rhythms that sustain attention. Spatial principles that activate memory. Science-backed aesthetics that feel true because they respect human neurology.
AI + art investigations
Artificial intelligence as collaborator, not replacement. Treating AI as an archaeological tool that excavates images buried in language. Hybrid workflows: hand sketches become AI generations, refined back through manual craft. Technology meets intentionality.
Exploring what happens when you direct AI like a cinematographer, rigorous creative vision meets algorithmic possibility. Not automation, but amplification. Not replacement, but revelation. Investigating where human curation and machine generation create irreproducible results.
Material studies & process documentation
Experiments with pigments, substrates, oxidation, and decay. Testing what materials want to do when given time and permission. Documenting failures as carefully as successes—because process teaches, archives matter, and transparency builds knowledge.
Systematic testing of natural dyes, paper textures, chemical reactions, and aging processes. Every experiment photographed, noted, archived. Sharing technical findings publicly, recipes, exposure times, what worked, what failed, and why it matters.
