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Color made intentional

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

NeoCon Color Award recipient.

Professor at FIT with 20+ invited international lectures

 

Forthcoming book: Hue, Chroma, and Poison Dart Frogs

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

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.

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.

Interviewed for color expertise in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, 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.

Pantone Magentaverse exhibition photograph by designorange

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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