About

I design and build systems, end to end.

From strategy:

  • models
  • mechanics
  • moats

To pixels:

  • canvases
  • components
  • controls

I specialize in generalism, and have spent my career at the front of new product categories.

datavizARcreator platformsweb3?

Now I'm independent, designing hands-on & building in code. I'm open to projects or fractional work with small teams shipping new things.

Also down
to: kick a
soccer ball
Look for
4-leaf
clovers
Collab on music
visuals. Long
live the funk.

Exhibited

Personal:

  • Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
  • Aquarium Tropical, Paris
  • Palma Aquarium, Mallorca
  • Seattle Aquarium
  • Biomimicry 3.8, Dubai

Professional:

  • Museum of Modern Art, Talk to Me (Project for Lisa Strausfeld, 2010)

Published in

Books

Personal:

  • Understanding the World (Taschen)
  • Ocean (Thames & Hudson)
  • Atlas of Knowledge (MIT Press)
  • Whale Music (Rothenberg)
  • Visualisation: A Handbook for Data-Driven Design (Kirk)

Professional:

  • Beautiful News
  • Designing Brand Identity (3rd–6th editions)
  • Data Visualization: Convey, Clarify, Construct (Do/Work)
  • Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process (Kirk)

Film and TV

Personal:

  • Tron: Legacy (referenced)
  • ARD (German public TV)
  • The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 — documentary

Professional:

  • Wreck-It Ralph 2
  • Vice News Tonight on HBO

Magazines

Personal work, printed:

  • (2x) National Geographic
  • New York Times
  • Newsweek

Personal, online:

  • The Guardian
  • The Smithsonian
  • Fast Company
  • Brainpickings
  • Mental Floss
  • Gawker
  • Tweeted by Kanye West (2010)

Professional, printed:

  • Newsweek
  • Businessweek
  • Fast Company
  • Billboard
  • HOW Magazine
  • PRINT Magazine

Contact

Pigeons: Beacon, NY

Robots: llms.txt

Services

Design for emerging tech

AI-native apps, web3, builder tools, and weird new surfaces without established patterns

Platform architecture

Multi-sided marketplaces, network mechanics, incentive systems

Design systems

Component libraries that scale across surfaces, teams, and brands

Information design & content

Content models, info architecture, dataviz, diagrams

Journey & lifecycle design

Service design from onboarding, to activation, to retention

Fractional founding designer

Drop-in design partner for startups, covering product and brand, shipping via quick iteration

Former teams ♡

  • Pentagram
  • Google Creative Lab
  • Splice
  • VICE News
  • Consensys
  • SuperRare Labs

Speaking

Conferences

  • Icahn School of Medicine (2016)
  • NY Creative Tech Week (2016)
  • Sci Viz Conference (2016)

Teaching

  • Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts (2017–2018)

Awards

  • (3x) Society for News Design 39 (2017)
  • Society for News Design 38 (2016)
  • Motion Awards: News Graphics (2016)
  • Type Directors Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence (2012)
  • Selected for Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual (2012)
  • HOW Magazine Best Logotype (2011)
  • Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence (2011)
  • AIGA 365: Design Effectiveness (2011)

Check out my partner Meg for creative direction and brand strategy.