I’m an experienced strategic designer, currently working as strategy director at Paper Giant, my favourite (actually) strategic design agency in Asia-Pacific.
I research , synthesise , ideate and design using a variety of tools to make sure the innovation does what it needs to do.
I’ve worked with some great people on some really interesting projects around the world.
I’ve had an unusual path which means I draw from and am influenced by a broad range of references. This makes me good at navigating problems and opportunities on both a micro and macro scale.
I’m a short-term pessimist and a long-term optimist. I turn my personal research towards speculative dystopia’s so that my work work can focus on designing a future that is more equitable and sustainable.
I'm proud to say my first book, How To Be a Creative Thinker, is out now. Think of it as the evidence-based pep-talk follow-up to The Artist's Way.
And if you’re interested to hear me chat to Gerry Scullion from This is HCD about design justice, you can check out the conversation here.
Get in touch to talk social innovation, speaking opportunities, project collaboration, or anything really. I'd love to hear from you.
You can see my linkedin here, instagram here and waste five minutes here.
As a gift, here is a public link to an online collective bookshelf of PDF’s, wiki pages, websites and articles that were sufficiently influential or unusual. I invite you to both give and take.