I'm Ryan, a designer and educator based in East Tennessee. Currently at Cirrus Aircraft, crafting learning experiences.

Plenty of people design and teach. What I do differently: I articulate. I find an idea's connecting points with a pencil and a conversation, until it's something you can live in.

My work is defined by a situation, not a single skill: someone has an idea they can feel but can't yet form. The work runs on scholarly imagination, careful craft, and genuine collaboration — not in sequence but as one motion.

A homepage can't do anything justice. The projects below say more; the rest needs a conversation. What's certain though: this is human work, all the way down.