I am a designer with a passion for creating solutions to better living. Since going out on my own over a decade ago, I have collaborated on a variety of projects rooted in design to improve spaces, visually communicate, or set strategy. My approach to all of these projects follows a process that involves thorough discovery, collaborating with the client, providing transparency in exploration, and refining to completion. My design ethos is to view solutions through a lens of positive psychological and environmental impact, and create unique spaces that do not simply follow trends. Good design focuses on functionality and usability so that it’s intuitive and sometimes invisible. It sets the foundation to layer a beautiful scheme.

Influenced by prior experiences, I took lessons from my earlier career chapter in public relations and event planning for consumer and luxury goods in New York. It is there that I honed my abilities for pitching creative ideas and orchestrating a precise attention to detail. Later in a product design role, I co-designed an award-winning, patented application to visualize clients’ investment and savings goals. For the past few years, I have moonlighted on a start-up called Skale, a community platform to document and share the best in food. I serve on my town’s traffic committee to improve walkability and safety, and co-founded a local parent group to encourage delaying smartphone use.

I love the challenge of assignments to improve quality of life, and I am constantly inspired by travel and experiences. I grew up spending considerable time with my family in Germany and Denmark. It was after a formative trip to Stockholm in my twenties that I applied to design school. I received my BA summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Design from Carnegie Mellon University. I have also completed interior design coursework at Rhode Island School of Design.

I first found myself designing physical spaces when a client whose style guide I created asked me to apply it to their offices, resulting in a separate guidebook to provide to their architecture firm. I’ve always loved working on my own interiors and pursued formal training between back to back renovations. I am currently restoring a 100 year old colonial home, and taking on other new interior projects, from construction to final layers. I embrace work of many scopes; all contain special moments worthy of elevation for which our lives are composed.

Christina