Play Orbit is a multi-disciplinary studio with decades of experience designing insight-driven products, services, spaces, and graphic communications for a global client base.
Led by Von Robinson, every project Play Orbit takes on goes through a design process inspired by his mentor Eva Zeisel's motto “a playful search for beauty" which brings together design research, systems thinking, and human-centered design. We call this process Deep Design.
I contribute to client discovery, design research and synthesis, and ideation activities along with keeping on top of general HR, finance, and marketing duties.
Some Play Orbit Projects
+Impact Studio for University of Michigan Ross Business School
A new space and course that teaches students how to use design thinking methods to address the wicked problems of our world. It is a space, an action-based learning course, and a campus hub for programming and events. (Poets and Quants called it “The Most Interesting New MBA Courses at Business Schools This Year,” 2019)
Fixed seating (launching soon)
This project was driven by extensive design research to understand and respond to the holistic needs of multiple stakeholders and their experience with live and communal spectator venues.
Family of lights (launching soon)
A collection of lamps that address the current needs, expressed and latent, of people in the workplace and in nomadic and work-from-home environments.