A landing page for smaller explorations that don't require waxing on and on about
Rock stacking, various times
I like to stack rocks, and I'm randomly kind of good at it.
Seal Rocks Beach, CA
Timber Cove, CA
Portland, ME
"Make a cake," winter 2025
A whimsical confection of beet and spinach dyed, everything-seasoned focaccia layered with cream cheese, cucumber and lox created in response to a DESIGN 365: Advanced Creative Studies prompt to make a cake. I also built a custom rotating cake stand out of plywood, dowels, and an axial bearing.
full cake
top detail
another angle
A cookbook zine for my friends, winter 2025
A zine that I designed in Figma and risograph printed of recipes that I make all the time to share with friends and loved ones. I designed my own font from my handwriting and bound it in a faux-blue book exam cover with the subject line "lunch".
finished zine
stacks of printed pages
fresh prints out of the riso
a small assembly fixture for applying a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA), spring 2019
A small mechanism I like that I designed and made at Flex.
It's a 3d-printed assembly fixture for a short-run prototype manufacturing line where small components laid on four pads of a PSA needed to be compressed against the interior of a ring-shaped plastic part. Consists of a single spring-loaded push button that pushes wedges radially outwards, and when the button is released, magnets pull the wedges back in.
mechanism
cross section - compressed state
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