Work

Trail running shoe concepts developed during my color, material, and finish internship: hand sketches, a spec sheet, colorway explorations, 3D-printed midsole and upper prototypes, and a feature-callout film.

Two seasonal color stories for trail footwear, each built from a mood collage, eight Pantone TCX accents and a three-color core: Jungle Gym and Arizona Desert.

Reorganizing the footwear team's materials library so designers could find a swatch by construction, supplier and season instead of digging through binders.

Gouache studies of color interaction and repeating motifs, and Boston Masonry Motifs: a repeat pattern built from lettering, signs and figures collected on Boston's weathered walls.

Ergonomic nail care for hands with limited grip: an oversized ridged cap that replaces the small factory cap on a polish bottle, and a nail file with a grip block, tested with older users.

An interactive system that turns cat scratching into a work of art: a solid wood frame with modular, refillable upholstery panels that fray on purpose to reveal the colors underneath.

A wall-mounted textile sculpture that reinterprets the animal trophy: a mold of my own face, wool stuffing, hand block-printed recycled cotton and vintage beads. Shown in the RISD Gallery.

A dress of hand-cut, layered organza scales over a black slip, built from microscope studies of shed snake skin.

An 1800s-inspired dress made from two men's button-down shirts, bedsheets and a tablecloth, whose skirt unbuttons into a picnic blanket. With a short film.