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| I have designed a wide variety of ceramic and glass products. I bring to these projects a unique blend of experience in design, drawing, sculpture, pottery making, commercial mold & modelmaking, ceramic manufacturing, and study of historical forms. This gives me two particular strengths as a designer: As a modelmaker, I can integrate the design and modelmaking processes, resulting in savings of both time and expense. My skills and my studio facilities make it easy to sketch directly into three dimensions, making the design process more spontaneous and efficient. As a ceramist, my concern is not only to make clever, beautiful, marketable objects, but to understand and design for specific techniques of production. For example, I have designed dinnerware shapes for particular forming machines, and even for particular kiln furniture. In developing sculptural shapes, I design for efficient production by envisioning, from the start, both the shape of the product and the shape of the mold. I also benefit from having built an extensive reference library on the decorative arts. In product design, my particular areas of interest and experience include: - functional and decorative dinnerware and giftware shapes - low-relief sculpting and patterning for surface design - sculptural objects, both abstract/geometric and figurative.
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