I’m an award-winning, luxury brand designer.
Focusing on luxury retail & packaged goods, and the luxury hospitality & interior design markets, my passion is integrating sustainable and circular design practices into the notoriously wasteful beauty and luxury brand spaces. My design style mixes careful precision with beauty and grace. I’ve helped launch current industry-leading brands from their infancy and worked with high-profile companies on a national and global scale.
I maintain an active fine art practice, too. I’ve exhibited around the US and have been the recipient of multiple artist residencies (both national and international), city-wide arts fellowships, offer lectures and workshops, and have held a number of adjunct professorships, giving me a unique and human-focused leadership style. I knows how to roll up my sleeves to get a job done and I’m always kind under pressure.
I earned a BA from American University in Washington, DC, and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. I live and work here in Los Angeles, CA. The weather is always nice.
Side projects of note:
At times I teach— anything from university level classes on sustainable design (thanks ASU) to creative online courses like the one with the folks at Hestia Mount Shasta Retreat Center’s Virtual Wellness Club. Learn more about their organization or register for another of their outstanding creative workshops here.
Reject Kitty is a part charitable project and part rescue and repository for my rejected drawings.
Occasionally, I publish articles on design business and creative entrepreneurship, here, and here.