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Overview
About Me
Designer, word nerd, detail sponge, stuff maker, bread breaker, thought jotter, scheme plotter. Always curious.
Grew up in Florida, got too much sun, and flew away to London for undergraduate studies. Fell in love with the city, wrangled a visa after graduation, and worked as designer at Pentagram for two years with way too many personal projects on the side. A current side-scheme is designing materials for revitalisation of endangered languages, most recently Unangum Tunuu in the Aleutian islands of Alaska.
Now en route back to the States, starting a Masters of Industrial Design at RISD in January 2018. Travelling the long way back before I'm tied to a student loan!
"Certainly there is within each of us... a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity. Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always." –Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
Staying with locals adds another dimension to the knowledge of a community and culture; people make the place, and the place imprints uniquely upon its people :)
Interests
Typography, linguistics, food and gastronomy, camping, religion and philosophy, snowboarding, product design, essay writing, sustainable systems, endangered languages, editorial and publication design, classical piano, geology, Jungian cognitive functions, translation, crossword puzzles, analogue and digital photography, Shakespeare, post-structuralism, photojournalism, tree-climbing, prose, anatomy, architecture, and all the bits in between...!
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
United Kingdom, United States