Case Studies
Entrepreneurship approached as a design medium. Each venture begins as curiosity, becomes structure, then scales into enduring systems.
Yampa Valley Ice Cream Company
A farm-to-table ice cream competition designed to celebrate agriculture and community.
Chefs transformed local ingredients into original flavors, and one playful article turned the event from modest to sold-out overnight. Among the flavors, a caramel-coffee crunch — built on local beans — stood out, later evolving into a licensed product distributed beyond the valley. The company revealed how food can carry story, and story can become legacy.
Chiral Apparel
A graffiti bikini and scarf company born from photography.
Chiral transformed photographs of urban textures and tags into fabric patterns, turning walls into wearable canvases. The project won the 2010 business plan competition and grew into a sourcing and print-on-demand model that treated clothing as art in circulation. Scarves became gallery pieces, bikinis became statements, and each piece carried the imprint of place.
41North Food Supply
A prototype for sustainable agriculture at altitude.
The passive solar aquaponic greenhouse was built as both architecture and experiment, testing how food could be produced efficiently, beautifully, and locally. From chef-focused supply chains to nutrient-film retrofits, 41North was as much about design systems as farming. Its legacy: a working proof of concept in food security.
CQ Limited / TradeControl
A fintech R&D initiative turning algorithmic trading into a visual, modular design practice.
TradeControl is a strategy builder where traders construct, connect, and test ideas in real time — powered by brokerage APIs, real-time market data, and psychographic AI. It positions trading as a form of creative system-building, while incubating strategies and tools that can scale beyond individual use.
Each project represents a different approach to the same question: how do ideas become systems, and systems become legacies?