Experimental Making

Experimental making functions as a form of inquiry within my practice. Through iterative exploration with materials, tools, technologies, and systems, I use making to test ideas, uncover possibilities, and generate unexpected outcomes.

My work investigates how rules, constraints, computation, and material exploration can become methods for generating knowledge. By embracing iteration, play, and experimentation, these projects reveal new ways of thinking through design while challenging conventional processes and outcomes.

Methods of Experimentation

Projects draw from a range of experimental approaches depending on the research question and context. These may include generative systems, rule-based design, material experimentation, chance operations, and participatory forms of making that use process as a catalyst for discovery.

Teaching Kinetic Type: Prioritizing Form and Space in motion design with Analog Making Processes

Using hands-on processes in the design of Interactive Type Posters

Typequads is a Student Project Focused on Typographic Exploration of 2D Composition & Motion

Research Presented at the International Design Research Society (DRS) Conference 2020: Critical and Collaborative Making

Art, Technology, and Collaboration: A Robot Drawing Workshop with the Pitt Pirates Robotics Team

Design Inquiry’s Futurespective Exhibition Opens October 4 at MECA Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine

A Presentation at the Digitally Engaged Learning Conference in Toronto: Experimental Practices with Creative Technologies, from the Analog to the Digital

Nature as a Mediator for Making: Data Visualizations of the Wind Recordings of Horn Island, Transformed and Reinterpreted Across Media

Horn Island 34: A Personal Mindquest to Meet the Magic Hour, Let go of Distractions, and Coexist with Nature

A weekend in Michigan: Exhibitions, Robots, and MSU

Expanding the Robot Family: An update in collaborative drawing tools and speculating future design possibilities

Exploring the Wild and Weird on Vancouver Island with Design Inquiry

Elements of Typography on the Letterpress

Mapping Moments with Design Inquiry: An exhibition of experimental mapping opens January 10

“That was my Idea” debuts at Aqua Art Miami

Typographic Window Art Installations at GSU share simple everyday reminders

Designing MFA / MA Advertisements for Print Publication

Creative Loafing and The High Museum collaborate with artists to create custom designed newspaper boxes