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Color made intentional

Color research, strategy, and design across environments, products, and brands.

NeoCon Color Award recipient.

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Professor at FIT with 20+ invited international lectures

 

Forthcoming book: Hue, Chroma, and Poison Dart Frogs

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Clients include Bulgari, Nike, Estée Lauder, The Menil Collection, The Noguchi Museum, and the Government of Japan.

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Featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and NPR.

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Color made intentional

Color research, strategy, and design across products, and brands.

NeoCon Color Award recipient.

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Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology with 20+ invited international lectures.

 

Clients include Bulgari, Nike, Estée Lauder, The Menil Collection, The Noguchi Museum, and the Government of Japan.

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Interviewed for color expertise in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, TIME, and NPR.

Speaking and Workshops

Chromatic Research

Speaking and Workshops

Book and Publications

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Environments

Color strategy for architecture and spatial experience.

Environments

Products

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Products

Color systems, materials, and product experiences.

NeoCon Color Award–winning color collection with Baresque  >

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Nike running shoe color specification  > 

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Brands

Chromatic systems shaping recognition, perception, and identity

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Bulgari color research and design  > 

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Brands

Identity built
through hue.

Bespoke murals, tile systems, and site-specific color environments.

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Select Projects

Houndstooth Tile from The Lacuna Collection  > 

Seersucker Tile for Clay Imports >

Bespoke murals, tile systems, and site-specific color environments.

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Waterfall mural in Chelsea, New York City  >

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Government of Japan work, on-the ground design fair reporting, research trips to chic cities, writing publications.  >

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Chromatic Research

Color intelligence informed by observation, global investigation, and cultural movements.

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Research and writing for The Government of Japan  >

Color intelligence informed by observation, culture, and material systems.

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Rockefeller Center Color Analysis  >

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Runway Colorblocking and the work of Josef and Anni Albers  >

Color sequences in writings of novelist A.S. Byatt >

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Speaking and Workshops

Research-driven lectures, seminars, and institutional programming.

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Seminar, Magenta: Diva or Destroyer?  for Estée Lauder  > 

Touching Color Magazine series: design, writing, and photographs > 

Forthcoming: Hue, Chroma, and Poison Dart Frogs: How Color Changes Everything.

Book and Publications

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Brands

Identity and chromatic strategy.

Select Projects

Akari Scarf for The Noguchi Museum  >

Materiality-driven jewelry, home goods, and textiles defined by tactile exploration.

Objects + Editions

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The Utopia Jewelry Collection inspired by architecture of the New York World's Fairs >

Color Analysis and Trend Reporting

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Government of Japan work, on-the ground design fair reporting, research trips to chic cities, writing publications.  >

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Research and writing for The Government of Japan  >

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