Thanks for stopping by my internet stoop. Here’s a snapshot of what's goin' on.
NOW
Offering visionary coaching at Choicing Down
Producing Tanaki at Lingonberry Intelligence (with Pasquale and Kristen)
Product design and packaging a musical practice system called Play Every Day (in partnership with Jason and Kristen)
RECENTLY
I’ve just come off 4+ years of applied community design research at Relational.org. Where we produced a slew of playful remote collab practices, a bunch of collective media, and a few promising prototypes.
AWHILE AGO
I co-founded and design-directed Carbonmade, a simple and fun portfolio site builder which was used by a big portion of the creative internet at one point. I've also designed lots of software, done branding and community work for bands, made some talk shows, created popular art gifs, and generally tried to live artfully.
Thoughts from the Studio
A weekly-ish vlog about the practice of living a creative life
Current Quests
Questions and intentions directing my exploration
Coaching founders and creative visionaries (reach out)
Compiling a zine as a way to codify my growth over the last year
Creating an intention system based on moon cycles
Summoning a mentor (is it you?)
Experimenting with vlogging
Practicing designing for emergence
Recent Projects
Work I’ve helped shape and ship in the last little while
Relational
WIP
A self-funded social media design lab researching novel ways of organizing, communicating, and playing
Ponder
My work from 2000-2016 lives at
℘ dave.carbonmade.com
Side Projects
Smaller works for fun or collaboration or both
2020—
2016—2020
2008—2016
This site is built with Framer. Which I have mixed feelings about. It's a lovely piece of software and their pricing makes my teeth hurt.
I aspire to tend this place like a 🪴 garden. This is my first pass.
If while reading this you have the slightest instinct to get in touch:
DO NOT HESITATE
send an email to calculator at gmail dot com before the feeling wears off!
