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.
The Austin children's book cover has large finger holes die-cut on the front and smal, child-sized ones on the back. The book physically connects adult and child during their sharing of a written story. This linking of readers necessitates an additional degree of cooperation—how to sit and how to turn the pages—and both reflects and enhances the emotional bonding that occurs.
AUSTIN
Children's book cover, for parent and child
Paperboard, binding cloth, stitching
1994
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