I’m a designer, immersive artist, educator, and Chair of the Communication Design Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. My work explores the intersection of analog and digital media, combining traditional making with emerging technologies to create experiences that encourage curiosity and connection.

Through exhibitions and collaborative research, I investigate how technology shapes culture and the stories we tell about ourselves. 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 exhibitions include What Happened? at MassArt x SoWa, The Pursuit of Happiness at Bromfield Gallery, and Ignite: Women Who Sparked the Center.

In 2006, I co-founded Cykod, an interactive design agency that developed digital experiences for clients around the world, including Google and Philips Color Kinetics. My research has been presented at conferences including ServDes, MODE: Motion Design Education Summit, and Typographics.

At MassArt, I previously served for five years as co-Director of the MFA Dynamic Media Institute. I currently serve as Chair and Professor of Communication Design, where I teach courses in typography, design research, and interactive media. Across my creative practice and teaching, I am interested in experimentation, play, and the ways design can help us better understand ourselves and one another.

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.