I trained as an architect and ended up working for one of the most visual brands in the world. The disciplines are closer than most people assume, both are fundamentally about what things mean and who they’re for.
I’m a Senior Art Director & Designer at Pinterest, where I’ve spend four years building the systems that let the brand show up consistently everywhere it goes, from Cannes Lions to CES, to regional activations around the world. Before that, I studied architecture at the University of Florida and brand strategy at Northwestern Medill.
What I’m building now rests on a single thesis: design and craft in overlooked places deserve attention–the sustained, serious kind of attention that asks what something is, what it was trying to be and what it could still become.
I’m based in Atlanta and sit on the board of the School of Architecture, College of Design, Consutrtion and Planning at the University of Florida. If any of this sounds like something you’d want to follow, start with Listen to the Architects.