Between September 2007 and October 2009, I worked as an exhibit designer at Thinc Design in New York. My projects included work with the teams that produced the Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavillion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 50,000 square foot Steinhart Aquarium at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, and the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site in Lower Manhattan. I also participated in early-phase work for a variety of corporate and institutional clients.

The Steinhart Aquarium has been awarded a 2009 IDEA Award for Environments from the IDSA as well as a 2009 Event Design Award for Best Museum Environment.

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This piece was developed as part of The Drifting Encyclopedia by Zach Morris through a grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation. In addition to fabrication, Chris developed the mechanics and interactive hardware for this piece, whose combination bird-like and flower-like form responds to a light controlled by visitors. Originally shown at the 2009 Burning Man Festival, it was also included in the Steampunk Haunted House in the Fall of 2009 (Slideshow on MSNBC.com), and will be on display as part of the Drifting Encyclopedia’s exhibit at the World Financial Center in New York in the Spring of 2010.

Coordination of Exhibit, Graphics, Lighting and AV for a 3000 square foot Exhibit and Retail Space educating the public about the progress of the Memorial and Museum being built at Ground Zero in New York.

9/11 Memorial Preview Site
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National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Tools for Sketching seeks to catalog design tools that emphasize quick, intuitive and descriptive communication of an idea—tools with little or no learning curve, low cost, small time- and brain- investment, informal output, and portability. There are three related and complementary inspirations for this site:

1. Provide designers with resources that can help them communicate their visions without becoming experts in specialized tools.

2. Examine the mantra of ‘appropriate fidelity’ in the creative process where it applies to determining what level of detail is required given the goals of the task at hand.

3. Provide designers insight into effective (or ineffective) user experience as exemplified by the tools themselves.

Tools for Sketching