i promised myself that in 2014 i will make one thing—big or small—every day.
(squarespace made me split the year, so january-june is on this page, and july and onward is here.)
israeli couscous salad (with kate).
a crustless zucchini quiche (with kate).
a camping sandwich (with chris and vida).
a campfire (with kate, chris, and vida).
a resources page for the sparktruck website.
cherry almond granola bars (with kate).
an avocado and poached egg salad (with kate).
a cucumber and cheese tower.
the first draft of a schedule for a week-long design thinking workshop.
a move across the country (with kate).
a funky box.
two more cozy houses for voyaging bikes (with kate).
an embossed moleskine.
a cozy house for a voyaging bike.
a toothpaste creature.
cheesy bread with three kinds of tomatoes.
frozen yogurt bark with craisins, almonds, and apricots (with kate).
a flyer for a design thinking workshop.
the second draft of the sparktruck lesson-planning activity.
a salad (but my mouth was faster than my camera).
the first draft of sparktruck tool cards for educators (with katie).
zucchini fritters.
steamed artichokes.
lots of craigslist postings (with kate).
a diagram (with dave).
an odyssey plan.
end-of-year awards for the d.life team (with kyle).
a cabinet cover for sparktruck.
appetizers for the "designing your life" end-of-the-year dinner.
another workweek of lunches and dinners.
the first draft of the "how to make a sparktruck" guide.
steel-cut oatmeal with craisins.
a planning calendar for this summer's sparktruck teacher workshop (with katie).
packages of "designing your stanford" t-shirts.
packages of the third edition of life design method cards.
a workweek of lunches and dinners.
grilled pineapple.
a class photo for "designing your life."
a cheese butterfly.
a tiny sandwich.
a diagram.
a paperclip brontosaurus.
words from lasercut moleskine letters.
quinoa with zucchini.
poached egg sandwiches with zucchini.
a slide deck for a "designing your stanford" presentation (with the d.life team).
ready-to-assemble salad fixin's.
printing proofs of the third edition of life design method cards.
a leaning tower of crackers.
a sticker file for the stanford triathlon team.
four new life design method cards.
waves at stanford's intramural swim meet & inner tube water polo tournament.
a summer planning calendar (with katie).
slides for "designing your life."
a micro-stonehenge out of watch screws.
couscous with roasted butternut squash and craisins.
footprints and tire marks along the course of the wildflower triathlon.
a camping sandwich.
rigging systems and miscellaneous accouterments for the stanford 2025 event (with d.school friends).
picture-hanging systems and lighting strategies for the stanford 2025 event (with d.school friends).
a vector file for this semester's "designing your stanford" shirt.
a sugru patch for a fraying power cable.
kale chips.
an index card house.
a slide deck for a "designing your stanford" event.
a salad.
a diagram for "designing your life."
a pistachio shells spiral.
a pdf of instructions for an assignment in "designing your life."
poached egg sandwiches.
a pdf of the slide deck for "designing your life."
a flyer for a "designing your stanford" event.
ephemeral table art.
a winter vegetable medley bowl.
a clementine peel turtle.
a travel plan infographic.
a pinterest board for house design ideas.
10-minute logo design for a fictitious brewing company.
sweet potato burrito bowls.
a pile of little lasercut trucks to show the laser cutter to second-graders.
worksheet for second-graders in a sparktruck workshop.
couscous with butternut squash and craisins.
photo roster of students in "designing your life."
hot glue gun certification badges for second-graders in a sparktruck workshop.
kits of supplies for an activity in "designing your life" and "designing your stanford" (with gabe).
a sparktruck presentation at silicon valley newtech.
the layout board for the sparktruck lesson-planning activity.
strawberry hand pies (with kate).
version 0.2 of the sparktruck lesson-planning activity.
a dolled-up sweet potato.
a tiny chocolate house.
a sketchup house model.
more tracks in the snow for day 2 of the vermont house-hunting trip (with kate).
tracks in the snow for day 1 of the vermont house-hunting trip (with kate).
a eugene-shaped sweaty outline on the ground by the finish line of the cal poly triathlon.
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
roasted butternut squash.
a strawberry jack-o-lantern.
a rubber band braid.
a "designing your stanford" flyer for newly-admitted stanford students.
super chunky applesauce (with kate).
maple oatmeal bread (with kate).
self-referential tofu.
self-referential almonds.
packets of newly-printed method cards for "designing your life" and "designing your stanford."
deconstructed sweet potato burritos (with kate).
a two-story chain of paper clips.
everything from barricade piles to sharpied athletes to help coordinate treeathlon.
a few more treeathlon plaques.
10-second origami.
laser-engraved award plaques for treeathlon.
worksheet for an exercise in "designing your stanford."
a four-fork mobile.
a laser-engraved iphone case for daniel.
an updated design for the triathlon team tank top.
print layout for the second edition of life design method cards.
packets of homework stickers for "designing your stanford" (with jon and kristin).
slide deck for "designing your stanford."
"designing your stanford" summary mini-handout.
t-shirt design file for "designing your stanford."
a trail of sweat along the course of the ucsd tritonman triathlon.
happy oatmeal.
evanescent grapefruit tower.
mashed potatoes and kale.
triathlon team tank top embroidery pattern.
a 5-foot-tall freestanding tower of whiteboard markers (but my phone battery died).
a tofu, carrot, and cauliflower experiment.
a quiche.
apple pecan bars.
a truck out of an almond.
roasted sweet potatoes.
logbook stickers for "designing your stanford."
rutabaga & carrot tic-tac-toe board.
a new logo for stanford's the bridge peer counseling center.
fig walnut granola bars.
event map for a sparktruck teacher workshop.
lesson template for crafting a sparktruck workshop.
a sandwich.
handouts for exercises in "designing your stanford."
nutella brownies for world nutella day.
curry roasted veggies.
flyer for this year's treeathlon.
another poached egg sandwich.
this year's club sports tank top & t-shirt.
magnetic nut sculpture.
homework stickers for "designing your stanford."
a salad (i was really hungry).
roasted red pepper and poached egg sandwich.
cranberry almond bars.
a pepitas snowman.
packets of homework stickers for students in "designing your stanford" (with jon and kristin).
handout for an exercise in "designing your stanford."
this year's treeathlon logo.
a tiny paper airplane.
cheesy poached egg sandwich.
rice crispies words.
roasted sweet potatoes and kale.
laminated signs for an activity in "designing your stanford."
a handout for an exercise in "designing your stanford."
oatmeal molasses bread (with kate).
mango macademia bars (with kate).
handout for an in-class exercise in "the designer's voice."
laser-engraved moleskines for students in "designing your stanford."
mini-handout for an exercise in "designing your stanford."
cherry almond granola.
a haiku.
instruction guide for conducting the sparktruck stamps workshop.
spiral cheesy toast.
sparktruck 3.0 napkin sketch.
a blog post for the leap year project.
this website.
