Personal Work_ Projects

I began teaching Industrial Design at the University of Cincinnati in 2012. With a new burst of creative energy brought on by the University environment, and slightly less free time, I began working on projects that I consider to be more studies than anything, often time rooted in some sort of experimentation, and with no real end. As such, a number of these projects have an open ended time in which they were designed, as I am still chipping away at them, with no true intent or long term goal other than to see where things may end up.

Something For Us, Something for Earth | 2021 _ *collaboration with Miguel Lastra*

Personal Work_ Dixon Branded

Dixon Branded was founded in 2011. Inspired by elegant assemblies, honesty of materials, and the machinery I operated day to day as a machinist, Dixon Branded was and still is an avenue by which I can explore form, materiality, function, and efficiency. While time afforded to put towards Dixon Branded ebbs and flows depending on semester, it still operates and faces design decisions, manufacturing decisions, and the like on a regular basis.

Student Work_ Section 001 | University of Cincinnati

In the spring semester of 2017, Professor Stephen Slaughter, from architecture, and I, partnered for our first co-taught course.. The mission was for students to develop a furniture brand from scratch, as well furnishings to go along with it, in one 15 week semester.

The work was ultimately to be shown at ICFF in New York, and the brand ultimately became known as Section 001 as a nod to the relatively dry naming conventions used by many mid-century designers.

At the heart of Section 001 is a course managed in the most democratic means we can muster. Students each have roles they either volunteer for or are voted into in addition to their normal design roles. While each is responsible for the design or co-design for a piece within the brand, they also have positions such as creative director, photographer, or social media head.

Section 001 has now undergone 3 iterations, each being developed by roughly 20-23 ID and 6-9 Architecture students. We are teaming back up in 2022 for a partnership with the non-profit developer 3CDC.

Section 001:  Midwest Modern | 2017 — Section 001: Midwest Modern | 2017

Student Work_ Ritual | University of Cincinnati

Ritual Studio was grown out of a search for alternative points of departure. The studio ran summers for fourth year students from 2016-2019, and started off with students adopting and documenting a new to them ritual. Students are then encouraged to design a suite of objects that solve, address, or comment on issues uncovered in their experiences. The work always proves to be varied and diverse, and conversations and critiques have been some of the most interesting I have had the privilege of being a part of.

The following pages are just a few of the multitude of highlightable projects from the four years of teaching the course.

Ritual:2019_ Lily Steiner | Kombucha Jacket

Ritual:2018_ Marnie Chang | Data Quandry

Ritual:2016_ James Gall *| AnalogDigitalAnalog*

Ritual:2019_ Dianna Meek | Virtual Vacation

Ritiual:2016_ Paul Dufour | Konso Bonsai

Student Work_ Big Box vernacular | Rhode Island School of Design

While working towards my graduate degree in furniture design at the Rhode Island School of Design my good friend and peer Eric Loucks and I had the opportunity to submit a course proposal for a winter session course. While our description was written pre-Covid, we discovered during the summer of 2020 that all 2021 winter session courses were to held virtually, and that students would be permitted to stay at home rather than return to Providence. By no small coincidence, the DIY nature of Big Box Vernacular meant that it was perfectly suited to this odd and trying set of circumstances.