Connecting the dots, designing for people, designing for discovery

browse my recent work below and learn more about me here

promo-ing → co-leading the nation’s largest student-run music festival (darya’s journey from adobe illustrator → notion)

designing a resilient urban water system — performance-driven and ecologically integrated

a 10-week sprint to make a multifunctional modular shelving system

all things design for a toy company for adults — research, positioning, branding, creative direction

enabling more accurate research of Queen Conch migration patterns

beyond design, my background is in neuroscience and journalism

my first video editing experience in Final Cut was a 45 minute tell-all highlighting humanities research, published as managing editor of the online peer-reviewed journal

The NURJ"SURG Tell-all”

Treatment Magazine"Chess as Therapy”

a featured article from my internship at an addiction treatment publication