well-made

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LET ME HELP YOU MAKE SOMETHING GOOD

Design doesn't end with drawings. It ends when your product is viable, and available.

To make a good product, we need to know who we’re designing for, that the problem we’re solving is, and how we’ll know when we’ve solved it.

From concept, through ideation, iteration, and factory-specific manufacturing, design needs to address an actual user need without creating new ones. Design isn't just about shapes, finishes, and assemblies. It's also about a market niche, manufacturability, relationships, price point and fulfillment.

PRODUCt

design

The Wallaby notebook wallet

Alaska Airlines tablet shell

"The Durg" Fire Pit

Bottle openers

Ergonomic scalpel

Apocalypse knife

Luxe bath caddy

PNTHR Phone Case

Deadhorse, AK

My steel horse, Bucephalus, has seen every mile from Tijuana to Deadhorse. After I disassembled and rebuilt it, I knew it could handle the ride.

Ikebana container

Hand-hammered copper Ikebana container, featuring a liver of sulfur and a temporal patina.

A blacksmith's hammer

Forged by Brent Bailey and finished by yours truly, this hammer has shaped many irons.

Continuous steel staircase

There are a handful of ways to make this, and none of them are easy.

Welding/sanding

A joint fabricated without care in both processes does not look like this. Especially after blackening.

Table leg

When the joint is already strong enough, you can make time for an aesthetics-first weld.

Steel greeting card

Originally a statement against greeting cards. Now something different entirely.

Graypants table lamp

My first individual professional fabrication contract.

In a time where everyone is focused on trying to make a 1000-year waxed canvas sweatshirt, it is too easy to overlook the brilliance of the quarter-cent, featherweight, compostable Dixie cup.

Every product has a specific set of constraints and goals, and my joy is in elegantly marrying those forces. It begins always with an honest accounting of the problem you want to solve.

So, let's talk. Send me a message or find me on LinkedIn.