About me

I've always made things. I studied product design, drew engineering schematics at a shipyard, and spent time working on assistive technology and ergonomics. It was all practical, grounded work. Things had to function, fit, and hold together. But even while I was studying, I found myself pulled towards the more visual and exploratory side of things too, especially illustration, mark making, and the stranger edges of how people and systems interact. I was drawn to human-computer interaction, and to ideas around neural networks, not in a technical sense, but as frameworks for thinking about behaviour, perception, and connection.

At some point that shifted onto the screen. I moved into graphic design and then digital, and the work became less about objects and more about structure, systems, and how things are understood. Not just how something works, but how it feels to use, how it's explained, how it holds together when you look at it properly.

That thread has never gone away. Even now, most of what I do comes back to trying to make things clearer. Sometimes that's in products or websites, sometimes it's in how something is drawn, written, or put together. I'm most interested in the point where something isn't quite landing, where the idea is right but the form hasn't arrived yet, or where nobody has found the right way to say it. That gap is usually where the work starts.

I've never been that interested in keeping disciplines apart. The same instincts show up whether I'm sketching something, structuring a page, or trying to untangle a bigger piece of work. Most of the time it comes down to reducing something to what matters, and getting it into a form that holds.

Alongside that, I draw a lot. Lines, shapes, small compositions, ideas that don't need to become anything else. Writing can work the same way, and so can the small things I build on the web. Even photography, when it appears here, comes from a similar impulse. None of it feels especially separate to me. It all starts in the same place: looking carefully, then trying to make something out of what you find.

This site is where those things end up. Fragments, experiments, drawings, notes, and anything else that feels worth keeping around for a while. Some of it connects back to my work. Some of it doesn't.

If Bold Wise is the more defined, client-facing side of what I do, this is everything around it.