With backgrounds in studio arts and business development, I aspire to create work that lives
at the boundary of intellect + intuition + utility, creating holistic, brand-driven experiences across media.
I’ve spent the better part of two decades helping launch brands, build businesses, and design digital products.
I currently run Neversink, an identity + experience design studio.
We work largely with emerging brands, providing a mix of digital product design, brand identity, and strategy that over the past decade
has brought more than 50 brands to market,
launched more than 80 websites, and has even found its way into several network tv .
In Brief
I design experiences founded on systems, and systems built around experience, and have a real obsession with the question of
in product, brand,
and technological design. Over the past ten years, in addition to exploring those questions in my own branding, I've been consulting
and speaking on applied ethics in branding and product development.
Remembrance of things past
By the by, I've served on the board of ;
was the first Creative Director of Microsoft's Office of Responsible AI; a consulting design technologist with Amazon Go
developing "compositional barcode" systems; played at cryptography for US Naval Intelligence; was many months happily at sea
as an oceanographer for of all things;
ran (and took residence in) the single best
either of us have ever heard of; helped found with my eventual and decidedly
, the beloved
, which for six years I
design directed and helped bring to rapturous press and national market. It's been a journey.
Write up an email if you're up here conversation or would like to see a true
portfolio; find me at instagram here or
here if you're a picture person,
at LinkedIn if that's your bag, or at the Good Ship
Neversink to see other new work.
- Thanks, Mindy Project!↵
- Not just in the Aristotelian, let poetics be-not untruthful sense, or a Conradian mandate that a work aspiring
to lay claim in the public space carry its justification in its every pixel and promise, to "render the highest kind of justice
to the visible universe", although ... yes, but also in questions of traceability, transparency, and downwind effects.
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- Namely, chairing the Design for Democracy committee, leading the development of an interactive
Voter’s Guide and extensible toolkit; planned a region-wide Civic Service Summit; advised advocacy and community groups across the country on
voter education, registration and engagement; and worked with Seattle's Ethics and Elections Commission to design the launch of the
Democracy Voucher Program.↵
- Tracing global biogeochemical cycles and meridional overturning circulation with a focus on chromophoric
dissolved organic matter (CDOM), working toward the calibration of geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites measuring
chlorophyll levels in the Pacific Ocean, and – most importantly – chasing (and securing!) my long-sought certification as an
Honorable Shellback.
↵
- Massolit, the fourth + final bookstore I've had the honor
of managing, I serendipitously chanced upon just days after my own fateful arrival in Kraków, fresh off of a grant for a series of essays on
the semiotics of architecture. I went to sleep every night comforted by the sleep sounds of 30,000+ volumes of the best books ever put
between covers.↵
- A Sweet Spoonful isn't even the start of
her immeasurable talents as a photographer and recipe developer, nor was
Whole Grain Mornings the last of the books she has in her. Seriously.
She's amazing.↵
- ...and which we sold, in 2017. Long live Marge!
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- The portrait above was made by the great Tom DesLongchamp.
