I’m honored to be featured in this year’s New City Design 50 — an issue that celebrates fifty changemakers in Chicago building meaningful impact through their disciplines, their skills, and their communities.
Over the last six years I’ve been building — tirelessly, sometimes blindly yet always honestly — a community in Chicago through the Chicago Graphic Design Club. That community led to Underscore, our podcast, which now spans over a hundred episodes across discipline, practice, and thought. It led to Faculty, our publication, printed in close collaboration with some of Chicago’s most important voices in design.
Together we’re building something special. Something that celebrates our collective individuality, our voice, and functions as a time capsule that asks more questions than it provides answers.
Over these six years I’ve built meaningful relationships and I’ve learned that the way to move things forward is through curiosity, obsession, drive, and authenticity — and most importantly a commitment to always, something more.
Most recently I’m excited to share news of OP/AL — a design lab — in Oak Park. A space introducing itself as being more than design. Because if there’s anything these six years have taught me it’s that design never ends. There’s always an echo. There’s always a ripple. There’s always a consequence to everything we make and every choice we take. And each decision we make carries a responsibility.
To all my collaborators, friends, and community over the last six years — you know who you are.
Thank you.
Thrilled for what is to come.
