I began my engineering path in the quest for as many skills as possible to actualize my creative visions. Design therefore is not a prerequisite step in the path towards a product, but a formalization of the ideas I feel compelled to make real.
With my projects, design begins as a captivatingly out-of-reach concept or something that I think is distinct, and represents my point of view or skillset. My design is almost always reliant on an intended specific experience or invoked style, with projects that express their own design and fabrication process. Given that perfect design products are readily available, it feels like a necessary part of my individual creative process to make my creations representative of the iterative thought process that brought them into the world. In physical items, small details left by artisans are a form of communication, those details and the logic motivating them is my life’s work and how I hope to communicate my thoughts and feelings to the world around me.
While I rely heavily on CAD and rough sketching to work out some of these ideas, my design concepts are often close to complete in the initial stages. My designs lean towards an older era of materials and form factors, executed to the next degree using modern techniques and technology. Since my personal work is process oriented, I try to perfect the fabrication of these projects, while leaving the technical elements functional, human, and filled with a character that lends itself to the project as a whole.
