Uncorked: The Basics of Italian Wine — teaching about wine to young people
Three projects from Northeastern, each driven by wanting to understand something I didn't yet: how paper folds, how type behaves, how to make wine unstuffy.
01 – ModiPouch
A modular aid pack for displaced people, built from one idea: apply paper-folding mechanics to fabric. Four snaps on each side let the same piece become a bag, a carrier, or a pouch, so it adapts to how someone actually lives instead of forcing one standard shape that half the time gets thrown away. It carries a baby. Getting fabric to behave like folded paper took a lot of failed sewing, but the final version works.
Then I took it past the object. ModiPouch is open-source, released under its own licence, with a full sewing pattern anyone can follow and a materials guide that walks you through choosing fabric responsibly and recycling it after. I built the whole thing to teach, not just to be used, because a bag that reduces waste in a refugee camp only works if the next person can make it and mend it themselves.
In Practice
02 – Type Specimen
A booklet built to show off three typefaces: Big Caslon, Migra, and Rockwell. The work was in the discipline, holding one consistent hierarchy and structure across every spread, then letting the letters, glyphs, and punctuation loose in collage compositions. Selected for Northeastern's Art and Design senior show.
In Practice
03 – Uncorked: The Basics of Italian Wine
A booklet built to show off three typefaces: Big Caslon, Migra, and Rockwell. The work was in the discipline, holding one consistent hierarchy and structure across every spread, then letting the letters, glyphs, and punctuation loose in collage compositions. Selected for Northeastern's Art and Design senior show.
In Practice
