Hi, I'm David.

I've spent most of my life helping people figure out what fits — and it took me an embarrassingly long time to apply that skill to myself.

For decades, I built a career around making people feel extraordinary. My designs have graced the covers of WWD and been worn by people like Kate Bosworth and Taylor Swift. I've spoken at universities like Princeton, FIT, and the University of Houston. I chair the board of Paris College of Art and serve on the board of Theatre Under the Stars. By every external measure, I had it figured out.

And then the version of me that built all of that stopped fitting.

That's the thing nobody tells you about success — it doesn't protect you from identity shifts. It just makes them more confusing, because you have more to lose and more to explain.

So I did what designers do. I didn't blow it up. I started making edits.

I restructured my business. I got honest about what I actually wanted to say and who I wanted to say it to. I launched Inside the Design Studio — not because I had answers, but because I needed a place to think out loud. And it turns out a lot of people needed to hear that process in real time.

That's what I do now. I help people stay oriented when who they're becoming doesn't quite match who they've been. Through speaking, through the podcast, and through frameworks like the ART method — Assemble, Refine, Try — I offer navigation tools for the messy, magnificent middle of becoming.

A companion for the process. Just someone a few edits ahead.

If you'd like me to speak at your event, conference, or organization, I'd love to have that conversation.

If you're ready to start somewhere, the Your Word, Your Practice guide is the best first step.

If you just want to listen first, the podcast is right here.