And The What Happened? A card deck for design researchers, design teams or for business At the end of 2018 I embarked on a Master of Design Futures at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). I remember at the time feeling restless about my role and my future...
For those that know me well, they know I am somewhat obsessed with creating repeating patterns. There is nothing like the feeling you get when that first design actually repeats as you intended. That achievement drives you forward to more variety and complexity in...
This is my latest pattern collection called Chisai, which means small in Japanese. It started as a challenge I set for myself to create an entire collection of small prints and a thought of wouldn't it be cool to make a quilt completely out of fabrics designed by me....
My logo is a stamp I made in shodo (calligraphy) class when I was in high school in Japan. I found a couple of them recently and started stamping in my sketchbook. At the time I remember thinking this would make a cool logo with no idea where I would use it. Of course...
I have a day job as a user experience (UX) consultant for a digital agency. Mostly when I tell people what I do they look perplexed. This is understandable. As careers go UX is relatively new, although it's been around for quite some time as human factors, human...
Welcome to my new space! I would tell you to make yourself at home but there's not much here yet. I have been contemplating this move longer that should be necessary (can you say procrastinator). I loved Current Observations (my former blog) and I grew as a designer...