I’m a designer, immersive artist, and professor whose work investigates the continuum between analog and digital media while examining how technology shapes cultural narratives. My projects span weaving, letterpress, and risograph printing to augmented and mixed reality, often addressing themes from political discourse to gender bias in artificial intelligence.
My collaborative work, including Threads of Assumption (with Sofie Hodara, Maria Finkelmeier, and U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo), has been exhibited at the Goethe-Institut Boston, Installation Space in North Adams, and the East Hartford Public Library. Recent projects include What Happened? at MassArt x SoWa and The Pursuit of Happiness at Bromfield Gallery. Upcoming, my work will be featured in Ignite: Women Who Sparked the Center in 2025.
In 2006, I co-founded Cykod, an interactive design agency that built digital solutions for clients worldwide, including Google and Philips Color Kinetics. My creative research has been presented at international conferences such as ServDes, MODE: Motion Design Education Summit, and Typographics.
At Massachusetts College of Art and Design, I am a Professor of Communication Design and former Co-Director of the MFA Dynamic Media Institute. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in typography, design research, and interactive media, with a focus on experimentation, collaboration, and socially engaged design.
This site was built using strapi, next.js, react.js and is hosted on netlify.
The display typeface is Diversity, a collaborative project lead by Distillery and People of Print with the aim of building awareness by unifying communities and cultures, and celebrating the differences in people's lived experiences. With contributions from 308 creatives from 54 countries this typeface brings together letters and numbers from the Latin alphabet inspired by hundreds of individual stories.
The main typeface is PT Serif and PT Mono, Designed by Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov and released by ParaType in 2010. Both are open source typefaces that can be accessed by anyone through google fonts. They are also one of the few super families on google fonts with attributions to women designers.
The site was designed by me and coded by my husband and biggest supporter Pascal Rettig, without his endless support this application would not be possible.