About
Hi, there!
My name is Richard but I go by Ricky too.
I'm a creative person who loves algorithms, plants, code, color theory, the shape of mushrooms, systems, the malleability of language, machines, EDM, and the internet. I love to learn new things.
I make artwork about humanity's relationship with the digital world, and the digital world's relationship with the physical world.
Work
- Google (Emoji Team) UX Designer / Creative Technologist (Contract) Now
- The Cooper Union Adjunct Professor Now
- The Unicode Consortium (Marketing) Frontend Engineer and Creative Developer 2023–2025
- Meso AI Frontend Engineer and Product Designer 2024
- The Cooper Union (Intra-Disciplinary Seminar) Frontend Engineer, Graphic and Motion Designer 2021–2022
Education
- The Cooper Union, School of Art BFA 2022
Practice
I teach art students how to code, and I teach engineers to conceptually think about artwork.
I spend time raytracing flowers in the browser and making generative art.
Recognition
- Cooper Union featured me in their "30 seconds in the studio" series.
- I spoke at NYCxDesign about a design project.
- An interface I designed for Emoji @ Google is a 2024 Webby Honoree.
- Adriana Farmiga talked about the emoji masks we worked on together in her BOMB Magazine interview.