Tyler Paige¶

Design Roadkill is what Jess Kuronen and I call mid-progress moments of "wow that's cool, but the client will never go for it." I've been collecting them and they usually end up developing into full-fledged design concepts, even if it takes years.

Jess Kuronen and I built a site for Todd Oldham’s return to fashion. The site features Todd’s signature whimsy and love for color. There’s also a ton of weird videos for practically every product, which to us feels novel for an e-commerce website.

Jess and I are happy with the site’s color scheme picker, like it’s 2005. We think about it like the poetics of getting dressed up.

Recently I have been teaching at Pratt and at Rutgers. I’ve been collecting my teaching materials—sometimes tutorials, sometimes emotional workshops, sometimes art assignment—to a portal I’m calling “The Center for Dizziness and Balance.”

The throughline between my teaching and my creative practice is to find useful disorientations: misheard phrases that spark interest; quick glances at the clock when a second feels strangely longer; sudden vividness when a truism feels deep. Therefore, the name here is taken from a rehabilitation center seen driving 65mph down the Garden State Parkway—the center between dizziness and balance.

I’ve lost the original file for this one, and all I have left is this low-res JPG. But in a way, that feels pretty right!

When the Mueller Report was released to the public, Joel Eastwood, Dylan Moriarty, and I pumped out this one-day project looking the categorization of redactions. Of it all, I’m most proud of this solitaire-type animation, which is totally responsive!