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Hello! I'm Josh    

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Webster's Dictionary defines a designer as someone who removes signs. I think?

I specialize in adapting existing design methodologies and frameworks in more environmentally-sound and community-minded ways. My approach combines ideas in systems thinking, biomimicry, collaborative storytelling, and my background in visual design to create solutions that give back more than they take.

 

But if you just need a guy to take down some signs, I'm pretty positive I could handle that, too.

Most Recent Projects

Time-Shifted Forest

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How might we improve the negative environmental impact of trading card games by showing players that concepts incorporated into gameplay are feasible in real-world scenarios?

ReBear

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How might we leverage the enormous amount of textile waste using a circular or ecosystem mindset into a product or service-based business whose own downstream is considered and designed from the outset?

Aure - Designing in Deep Time

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How might we use deep time forecasting and storytelling to first examine potential impacts of current trends and patterns, then apply sustainable design frameworks to create solutions to future echoes of those issues.

Net-Positive Hospitality

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How might we create a regenerative business model for a boutique hotel that leverages it's assets to improve the community it resides within?

Image by Kelly Sikkema

Most Recent Writing

These are my own thoughts, sketches, notes, writings around a wide variety of topics. Feel free to leave comments with your own thoughts, correct things that I've gotten incorrect, and always mention connections to other cool things that you're doing or that you've seen. I love cool new things!

Water Bottle Life Cycle Assessment

Looking to understand the impacts of single-use and reusable water bottles. Are reusable bottles actually better?

February 2, 2026
Notes
Considering My Carbon Footprint

Calculating and thinking about my impact on the world and what that could mean at scale.

January 2, 2026
Notes
iSite: Greenbriar

Biomimicry iSite notes about the mechanisms used by a climbing plant

January 19, 2025
iSites, Notes
iSite: Life Along the Cypress

Observing a tree and consider the life that it supports along its vertical axis.

January 12, 2025
iSites, Notes
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