I turn complex briefs into clear spatial, product and visual systems, carrying the organising idea through design decisions, collaboration and delivery.
A meditation on seeing. A colour-study instrument for painters, built from my own studio practice.
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I made PIGMENT because I wanted a better way to train colour judgement before reaching for an eyedropper.
Practice asks you to estimate a colour in context before revealing a fixed sampled patch. Studio reads colour areas, compares them with paints you own and a 72-paint catalogue, and keeps uncertainty visible rather than pretending a screen is paint.
I defined the product, interaction model and visual direction, then used AI coding tools to help implement, test and refine the browser instrument.
Studio compares what you see with the paints you own and a 72-paint catalogue. When nothing is close enough, it says so. That is a useful answer.
The method holds on a phone: the reference above, the question and your estimate below. No account, and your images stay on your device.
Try PIGMENTA portable coordination agent being developed to connect needs with offers made at different times, across the channels communities already use.
Utsa grew from OfferNet coordination research into a product question: how can a community remember useful offers and needs across time, explain a possible fit, and let people decide privately?
I lead product direction, interaction logic, naming, identity, evaluation and demonstration. Earlier prototypes ran in Discord; the current direction treats Utsa as an independent coordination agent that can integrate with Telegram, community websites and other host environments.
Early work explored a dedicated contribution interface. The product direction shifted toward an embedded agent, placing matching where people were already working.
This changed the interaction model from navigating a portal to stating a need, retrieving relevant context and explaining a connection.
Open the earlier interaction study
In the Sprint demonstration, a new need led Utsa to an offer from weeks earlier. It explained the fit and connected the participants.
The demonstration establishes retrieval and need–offer matching. Attestation, portable reputation and broader persistent coordination remain development directions.
Earlier civic matching work explored how people could find relevant ways to contribute. The AI product carries that question into conversation and memory.
The paper prototype records the earlier interaction research. It is separate from the current Discord agent.
Deployable infrastructure, from a medical-device microfactory to a modular campus.
Innovation Lab, now BuildingBloc, commissioned the studio to translate technical programmes into environments that operators, investors and partners could evaluate.
The work spans controlled production spaces, transportable modules and campus-scale arrangements. Workflow, servicing and human use guide the spatial organisation.
Raw-material and finished-device storage occupy opposite ends. Printers sit below a continuous work surface, with standing workstations through the centre. Roll-up doors support loading and setup.
The same concern for circulation and servicing carries into the larger campus studies.
View the full projectThree distinct identity projects in the BGI ecosystem, with shared attention to visual rules, applications and handoff.
A title block for a recurring series.
Dimensions, annotations, revision marks and a title block form a repeatable announcement format. Black, white and redline accents distinguish primary information from technical detail.
A quiet front. A measured back.
BGI Commons is the house; HyperSprint is the series; 01 is the edition; omega is the subject. A small front mark and a larger field of arcs and nodes carry that hierarchy across the collection.
One origin. An open edge.
Start at one node, shift from geometric to hand-drawn, and cross the edge of the frame. Three rules extend the thread across lockups, event graphics and merchandise.
Selected built homes, led through design development, permit coordination and delivery at Smallworks.
Built homes give the spatial work a direct test: circulation, storage, light and the details people use every day. These projects show the relationship between design decisions and completed rooms.
Phase 1 architectural concept and feasibility study for a surf hub, boutique hotel and public programme on a constrained coastal site.
Commissioned · Phase 1 complete · Unbuilt
The scheme places public uses above a wet-tolerant lower zone. Deep overhangs, terracotta screens and operable glazing shade the ocean elevation; a crescent stair links the levels and keeps circulation legible from the frontage.
