PROJECTS


2025


OPEN
Thesis Publication Design
BU MFA 2025 ExhibitionVisual Identity
Scroll(s)
Exhibition Design
Index—Open / Index—ClosedExperimental Book Design
111 FT
Participatory Design
Linear Loop
Experimental Book Design


2024


BU MFA 2024 ExhibitionVisual Identity
Tara Donovan: HyperobjectsPublication Design
Typographic Constraints
Participatory Design
Museum Wayfinding Proposal
Signage Design
Shifting Perspectives
Publication Design
BU GD Studio Website
Website Design
REACT
Experimental Book Design
Craquelure
Typeface Design
What If / Then
Generative Design
Research & PublishPublication Design

Angular AntiquaTypeface Design
Angular Antiqua, specimenExperimental Design

AI__&&__MEZine

Meet Me in MontgomeryInstallation, Publication

A Designer’s Guide to Pricing 
Risograph WorkPublication Design
Ashley James Keynote LecturePoster

Enclosed Conversations: Levels of Exchange Between FriendsPublication Design

StorefrontsPoster, Risograph

Words In Translation: My Life in FrancePublication Design

Multiple WorkshopsPoster

Selected Voices from Native America
and Syllabics TypographyPublication Design
Prem Krishnamurthy LecturePoster

2023


Script & ScreenPublication Design

Designing ProgressPublication Design

Animal BooksOrigami Books

APhotography Book

Graphic Design is Serious, 
Not Solemn Publication Design, Risograph

2022


Family TreePoster
Jewelry CollectionPoster


OPEN
Thesis Publication Design
2025

SIZE: 7 ½ x 10 in.
BINDING: Perfect

Draw Down Award for Outstanding Achievement in Publication Design

My thesis explores the idea of open design: how systems, rules, and predetermined frameworks can create flexibility, invite participation, and lead to outcomes that are not fixed in advance. Instead of treating design as a closed process with a single solution, I investigated how constraints can actually open things up, producing new possibilities and shifting interpretation from designer to audience. This research took shape through both my own design experiments and participatory workshops, where others engaged with structured limitations and revealed insights I couldn’t have predicted.

The book itself translates this argument into form through a system anchored in the number four. Across cultural, philosophical, and structural contexts, four represents stability, wholeness, and a framework to build within. I applied this logic at every level of the design: the grid is built on a 4 × 4 structure, margins and image buffers follow increments of ¼ or ⅛ inch, typography alternates in four-paragraph rhythms, and type sizes shift in 4-point intervals. Every design decision follows the same numerical logic, not as decoration, but as a rule-based strategy to generate variation.

By using four as a structural anchor, the book embodies its central proposition: openness is not the absence of structure, but something made possible by it. The design mirrors the thesis itself, turning constraints into a source of freedom.

Includes interviews with Angela Torchio, gideon-jamie, Ben Denzer, and Experimental Jetset




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