IdentityI am a critical and artistic designer, striving to create thought-provoking experiences. After scrutinizing a complex issue to its core and from different angles, I find ways to express and present it to an audience in a unique and engaging way. By designing narratives, items, installations and spaces, I seek to shed light upon a subject matter in a way that is pleasant and inviting to the user and will make them experience and comprehend an underlying theme in a deeper way. I am an independent and hard worker, who values freedom and creativity above rules and guidelines. While I dislike being micro-managed or restrained, I excel collaborating with peers working towards a shared goal. I can often bring excitement, fresh ideas and alternate solutions to the table and am very grateful to be able to learn from and engage with people possessing other expertises. Although I am typically uninterested in leading a group, I do find myself take on managerial roles within teams like keeping track of the big picture and making sure teammates are working on tasks that motivate them. In the realization of an idea my expertise is in the visual. My whole life I have loved drawing, illustration and art. I complement this with an understanding of programming and user interaction which I can use to implement interactivity in my work. I am seeking to learn about motion and animation to further expand my skillset in communication design. |
VisionIn travel, a sense of wonder can sometimes take a hold of me. This can be for the intricate patterns found in the natural world or the collective fictions governing culture. Encounters like this can sometimes trigger a state of amazement that makes one realize, question or understand something new about themselves or how they relate to their surroundings. As a designer I aim to facilitate a similar type of experiences. In a society that seems increasingly polarized, I see great worth in exploring alternate ways of sharing ideas. Design has incredible ability to make concrete and experiential what has been, would be or could be. Through imagination and philosophy, I hope to inspire to creative thinking and considering new perspectives. By providing nuance and context, I intend to promote being critical and forming individual ideas. In storytelling and illustration, I aim to communicate more effectively and comprehensively. I believe that approaches like these can make people connect to the world and each other in a deeper way. Technology can be one of the ways to achieve this. Although technology can be used to spread an idea to the world at the blink of an eye, it can also be employed to allow new ideas to slowly sprout through carefully crafted interaction. |
