1. Cultural projects in public – usually emerging from long-term collaborations with communities and the histories and ecologies of the site.

2. Publications, environments, interfaces, and other forms of media for clients (usually people involved in community education or political organizing.)

Examples below. The “art/culture” work is towards the top, the “design” work is lower down – but honestly it’s messier than that.

UI/UX for an expansive datavisualization of health, equity, and human services data for NYC (Measure of America, Social Science Research Council, 2025)

The story of Youth Organizing on Incarceration in LA County (the YDD Coalition, 2023)

Public awareness campaign on COVID safety, worker rights and protections in LA County (Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2023)

Maps and wayfinding for a tricky spiral space (the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, 2021)

Youth Justice Working Group - reimagining diversion for Youth in LA County (Haywood Burns Institute, 2022)

A guide for sidewalk vendors navigating their new rights and restrictions post-legalization. (City of Santa Monica, 2020)

A comprehensive reimagining of the Youth Justice System (Los Angeles County Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group, 2022)

Youth and Family activity guide about community and isolation in a modernist paradise (Exhibit Columbus, 2022)

Popular education materials about Building Decarbonization and Just Transition (for SCOPE, LAANE, and the NRDC, 2022)

A website to hold placekeeping practices across AAPI-America (The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development, 2021)

Farm Bill Explainer (GOOD magazine, 2013)

A guide to Predatory crisis and lending
(with CUP and MTWTF, 2008)

A book about race and retail space (Princeton Architectural Press, In-Fo-Co, 2009)

An Illustrated map for Alex Tarr’s essay “Los Angeles, the Garden City” explores the agricultural landscape of Los Angeles before the freeway era. (Food: An Atlas, 2012)

One thing Leads to Another, a vinyl wall graphic megamix of a decade of work for an exhibition at Pomona college with frequent collaborator, Tiffanie Tran (2018)

A history of the Farm Bill with Dan Imhoff (GOOD magazine, 2014)

Graphics about coerced labor (UCLA School of Law, 2015)

Graphic design and facilitation for Theresa Hwang’s multi-year community organizing and planning initiative in Skid Row (Skid Row Housing Trust, 2014)

Wage theft diagrams (Human Impact Partners, 2014)

Sculpy animations about redistricting with Colleen Corcoran and Tiffanie Tran (the Advancement Project, 2012)

Guides on how to create, run, and end your artspace by the much-loved and missed Machine Project (2018)

Machine Project posters (2013)

A poster about race and public works investment (Black Workers Center, 2012)

Identity system for a radical translation and interpretation collective. (antena, 2012)

Visuals for Hotel Worker campaigns (Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2016)

Guides to the Building Trades (UCLA Labor Center, 2016)

Website, publication, and identity for Participatory Action Research education project (the Urban Justice Center, 2010)

The Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House (Machine Project, 2014)

Schematic model and teaching tool of NYC’s Combined Sewer Overflow system (the Center for Urban Pedagogy, 2006)

Curation and exhibition of 12 community-artist collaborations (The Music Center, 2016)

A Guide to Machine Project’s Temporary Arts activations for the LA Department of Cultural Affairs (Machine Project, 2016)

Guide to Public Housing Organizing (Social Science Research Council, 2009)

Research Justice Explainer for The DataCenter, an organization that utilizes research to help move the knowledge and solutions of communities of color and the poor from the margins to the center of decision-making (DataCenter, 2011)

Poster for The Fol Chen (Machine Project, 2012)

Our Skid Row Urban Design Sourcebook (Skid Row Housing Trust, with Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects, 2016)

How Machine Project makes the sausage - explainer diagram (Machine Project, 2015)

Graphics in pursuit of alternatives to the school-to-prison pipeline. (Human Impact Partners, 2014)

A short poem-song performed exactly once - with Daniel Tucker and Cassie Thornton at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2011)

Visualization of Harvard library system’s circulation data and the Library of Congress’s complete Subject Headings (Harvard Library Innovation Lab, 2013)

Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice (justice4Families, 2012)

A tiny pocket-guide to the Building Trades for Los Angeles Alliane for a New Economy (2013)

A website about the Housing Element - an important tool for creating density across California (Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department, 2023).

Illustrations and design for a parent’s guide to Positive Behavior Interventions & Support/Restorative Practices and reforms at LAUSD (CADRE, 2018)

A boardgame, partygame, and videogame about zoning and displacement with Gilda Haas. Used as a training and teambuilding exercise for promotoras (and later an indie videogame viral hit). (Esperanza Community Housing Corporation & Dr. Pop, 2010)

Graphics for Undocumented students and worker education (UCLA’s DREAM Resource Center, 2016)

Detroit Do Your Thing, winner of the German Federal Cultural Foundation‘s Shrinking Cities Design Competition (the Center for Urban Pedagogy, 2004)

Identity for Los Angeles Alternative Art and Culture Space (Public Address, 2010)

Cover graphics, data visualization of arts spending in Los Angeles (X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, 2012)