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I’m a designer and musician exploring the audio-visual world: capturing the story of architecture on film; fusing cutting-edge typography with music and movement; recording music that blends experiment and tradition.

I studied architectural history and computer science at Columbia University, where I focused on telling the geographic story of architecture with interactive cartography. After college I worked as a software developer at Twitter, before co-founding Goodhertz, Inc., an audio software company, where I lead creative direction.

As part of that work, I created Coldtype, an open-source creative coding tool, now used around the world to do advanced typography in two and three dimensions. I’ve taught workshops and presented on my animated typographic work at Cooper Union and Art Center College of Design, and I wrote the foreword to The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design.

My writing has also been featured as liner notes for multiple Vulfpeck albums, in newsletters on world music, and in articles on modernist landmarks in LA on Other Modern, a site illustrated with my own architectural photography — a skill and discipline that first grabbed my attention when I assisted on a Columbia-sponsored research trip to photograph Gothic cathedrals in 2010.

When not designing or writing, I’m usually playing music — probably banjo, though I’m always learning about traditional instruments and techniques from around the world. If you’re a fan of old-time banjo, you might have come across my 2012 EP Gold Mountain, or my Instagram, which is full of my frequent experiments in pushing the boundaries of conventional banjo technique and repertoire.