Design Philosophy
Design is about the choices we make in every moment. How will we use the time and space around us? How will we shape and enhance what people see, feel, touch, smell and hear? How can each moment influence how we experience the ones that follow? How can the choices we make as designers liberate the people for whom we design?
Since childhood, I have been deeply sensitive to choices we make about what to wear, about where and what to build, about how and when to celebrate, about how to speak, and how to listen. In my family, the intentional choice was celebrated. This is the spirit that led me to design, and as a consequence my work has organically ranged across interiors, products, graphics and fashion. Design at each scale influences the available choices at every other scale. Today, as I move through the world, I notice and capture choices others have made in order to learn from them and be changed by them.
I celebrate choices that make ordinary moments beautiful: