COMMISSION & CONCEPT WORK
PRODUCT DESIGN
Client Commissions, Concept Pitches, & Creative Consulting
Each of these projects posed a distinct creative challenge—some client-driven, others concept-led—spanning custom-made lighting, conservation design, and speculative product development.
ABOUT THE WORK
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COMMISSIONED BY CELERY KEMBLE
CUSTOM PENDANT LIGHTS
Commissioned by renowned interior designer Celery Kemble for a newly constructed New York penthouse, this pair of custom pendants was created to reinterpret—but not reproduce—the Animal : Mineral series. Kemble had seen the original collection and contacted me directly to create two fixtures that would reference the horsehair pendants while offering a distinct interpretation.
Working from her architectural plans, I reimagined the design—simplifying the metal form and inverting the original concept. Instead of horsehair cascading from the frame, the final pendants used taut horsehair strands as a structural element, suspending the minimal metal forms in place.
TRACKING OF THE SPECIES
HAUTE COUTURE COLLARS
THIS AIN’T NO LOCKET FROM GRANDMA—Rather, it’s a bold, beautiful way to call to arms.
Haute couture chokers that reference tracking collars that are fitted to wild tigers. Tracking gear for wildlife helps save animals in peril. The Tracking of the Species collars are engraved with a number corresponding to a tiger currently being tracked.
Intended to sell at auction for upwards of $15k—equivalent to the cost of fitting and tracking a single tiger.
PROJECT DETAILS
Working with the Midwestern Regional Director of World Wildlife Fund, the aim of this project was to raise the issue and generate funds to help protect and save these majestic animals from extinction.
Tigers fit with GPS tracking collars can be accurately located every half-hour. This helps scientist better understand tiger ecology and how the species adapt to their ever-changing environments.
Animal tracking collars have already proven successful in effectively catching poachers who trap, kill and sell tigers. Today, poaching is the number one reason that tiger populations are dying. Funding is desperately needed to help stop these rampant killings.
PRODUCT DESIGN CONSULTING
A curated selection of independently developed and client-directed product designs, focused on materiality, multi-functionality, and embedded narrative through physical design.
NOVA of California
— Brought on board to modernize existing product lines and introduce striking new designs to reinvigorate NOVA’s lighting collection.
NOVA of California
— Brought on board to modernize existing product lines and introduce striking new designs to reinvigorate NOVA’s lighting collection.
TableLamp
— A minimalist, dual-purpose design. Adjustable light and surface function independently or together — as a coffee table, side table, or ambient accent.
TableLamp
— A minimalist, dual-purpose design. Adjustable light and surface function independently or together — as a coffee table, side table, or ambient accent.
Jolie-Laide
— Dining tables that echo the silhouettes of endangered animals — a blend of art and utility, created for auction to raise funds and awareness for wildlife conservation.
Jolie-Laide
— Dining tables that echo the silhouettes of endangered animals — a blend of art and utility, created for auction to raise funds and awareness for wildlife conservation.