Interior Motives

In my professional career, I’ve had the privilege of serving as artistic and creative director for hundreds of digital projects, from interactive media to user interface design to web projects. Over time, I realized that physical design shares much in common with digital design: texture, color, and human interaction.

During my creative career, I’ve worked with talented commercial, residential, and landscape architects as an interior designer. Ultimately, I studied interior design more formally and subsequently joined IIDA and SEGD. I’ve been fortunate enough to work on referral only ever since.

I designed the hardscape and layout for this garden, which won San Diego Home/GardenGarden of the Year in 2019. Christiana Holmquist did an amazing job of choosing the plants and I consider her my mentor in all things plants. I designed the hardscape to explore the idea of patina and aging, I wanted to create something that incorporated weathering and change over time. Just as plants change during their lifetimes, so will the materials I choose. Steel becomes rust; copper becomes verdigris and wood becomes hewn and weathered.

When we needed a larger office for our company, NewBlue, I set out to create a space that would invite collaboration and reflect the company’s creative energy. Teaming up with architect Don Vanderpool, I designed and created the space from the ground up, making nearly everything by hand from the colorful ceiling tiles to the wood slat wall to the custom desks. I chronicled the adventure in a series of blog entries I call “Champagne Space on a Beer Budget”.