Design Portfolio
Sustainability, Craftsmanship, and Ethical material choices
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Bureau Bag {2026}
New Year Table Set {2026}
Paper Waste Lamp {2026}
Gelatin Mold Castings {2025}
Sand dollar Pitchers {2025}
Leaf Critters {2026}
Scribble Bag {2025}
Guqin {2024}
Fishing Lamp {2024}
Lint Book {2025}
Laptop Case {2025}
Bureau Bag
Creative Reuse Artist Residency [2026]
Luxury bags are representative of extractive and environmentally harmful practices in the fashion industry. The Bureau bag challenges the norm with repurposed fabrics and hardware. Functional drawer handles are refashioned into decorative details. I wanted to demonstrate through a simple construction and hand stitched details, that beautiful and functional objects can be made from salvaged materials.
Leaf Critter Puzzle
Abraseedabra [2026]
Age Group: 8+
Pieces: 100
Concept-
Pieces: 100
Concept-
- Once completed the puzzles don’t have to be disposed of and can be planted in a pot or garden to grow wild flowers.
What can be learned-
- They teach about natural cycles such as decomposition, plant life cycles, and different habitats.
- Leaf Critters teaches about the importance of fallen leaves and seeds as a habitat and food source for decomposers. The leaves provide protection for seeds to hibernate over the winter and emerge as seedlings in the spring.
New Year Table Set (Something Old & Fresh)
Designed Gatherings [2026] Group Project with Lara Tekindur and Jina Chung
A tabletop collection designed to celebrate the transition into a new year, creating moments of sharing, ritual, and celebration through mezze-style food, candlelight, and champagne.
Mezze is a social, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern style of dining featuring a variety of small hot and cold dishes shared among guests. Often serving as a full meal rather than just an appetizer, it includes staples like hummus, baba ganoush, falafel, olives, pita bread, feta, and grilled meats.
Created with Cherry wood stained in pomegranate and beets, tin plates, wax candles, and upcycled wine bottle glasses.
Serving dishes, candles, serving platter, wine glasses, wooden plates
Paper Waste Lamp
Designed Gatherings [2026]
Moodboard
flaxseeds, sawdust, tumeric, weaving, laminations, sculpting, paper fabrics
Final Materials:
Materials:
- Bent laminated wood
- Recycled Paper
- Methyl Cellulose
- Cornstarch
- Xanthum Gum
- Recycled Paper
- Methyl Cellulose
- Cornstarch
- Xanthum Gum
Sand Dollar Pitchers
Design Principles II [Spring 2025]
Sketch models
Oil and Vinegar dispensers inspired by the keyhole sand dollar. This project focused on form. After many sketch model iterations I was able to create unique ergonomic shapes and holds.
Made entirely of second hand materials, the exterior is formed with discarded clay, and the interior with old corks and foam stress balls.
Multiples.
As a continuation of my Sand dollar project, I wanted to continue being intentional with my material choices and methods. Although risky, I decided to explore gelatin mold making as an alternative to synthetic molds. The reusability and flexibility of gelatin proved to be advantageous and a sustainable option.
Gelatin Mold Casting
Design Principles II [Spring 2025]
Orthographic
Gelatin Mold Materials:
- Knox Gelatin Packets
- Glycerin
- Water
- Reused Plasticine
- Scrap Foamcore
- Pottery Plaster
Fishing Lamp
[Re]purpose Wintersession [2024]
Inspired by Solar punk and apocalyptic creations, this functional fishing lamp is entirely made from salvaged materials.
Materials:
- Cigar box
- Sifter
- Pulley wheel
- Lamp shade
- Rice Paper
- Wire
- Beaded trim
- Fishing line
- Tree branch
Lint Book- Material Exploration
NCSS Seminar
[Fall 2025]
Can lint, the very end product of textiles, be revived as another form of textiles?
How can we utilize this form of waste to keep it out of our air and waters?
Using a variety of methods, I sheetformed, felted, and sewed lint together. Since lint is mostly made of short fibers, it needs to be combined with longer fibers to cling together, so I combined it with some other fiber waste such as paper pulp and wool. The final results were these marbled sheets of felt. Each page tells a story of the clothing it came from and the person who wore it through small details like a sequin to a feather and even human hair.
My conclusions so far of this ongoing experiment is that lint can be used as a filler material for textile composites. It is incredibly soft but due to its harmful contents it would best serve as an insulation or packaging material that is sealed away and unexposed to the environment, as it can still shed microfibers. Many solutions for preventing microfiber pollution already exist but we need to spread and promote these alternative methods. Some safer methods of drying laundry would be by line-drying, heat pump dryers, and the use of proper filters and ventilation. In tandem, more regulations need to be put into place for reducing microfiber pollution.
This speculative experiment is meant to bring attention to the dangers of microfiber emissions, by presenting a physical representation of a microscopic pollutant.