My design work varies from the poetic to the pragmatic. With self-initiated projects, I tend to design for the domestic sphere, at the scale of the individual, and often without a lot of technology. My academic projects involve greater ethnographic research and participatory methods and tend toward systems-, service-, and strategic-design. The images below represents the "making" aspect of my design practice, often in collaboration with Stephanie M. Tharp and our studio, materious.
In an age of web connectivity, viral marketing, and social networking, the Node Clock reflect this defining aspect of contemporary life. Instead of typical 1–12 numbers, the passage of time is depicted with increased nodes and complexity along the the twelve hourly markers.