Christopher Houltberg

Visual Artist & Designer

Today, design fields demand a multidisciplinary approach to various subject matters. Designers now need to be both producers and translators of information, which makes interpretive design particularly fascinating. This area exists at the intersection of multiple disciplines. As Roberts defines it, interpretative design combines heritage interpretation and design, with variants such as scenography, narrative space, narrative environments, and environmental graphics. I am interested in the designer's role in collaboration with other fields and the diverse perspectives these fields bring. 

My creative process begins with a broad overview or mapping of the

infrastructure, examining the framework and asking question after question. I spend a lot of time considering each component and how it functions. This collection of information becomes obsessive for me, searching far, wide and everywhere in between. I am following methods of scientific observation while creating the projects. I approach the task  subject thinking spatially and then work back to the aesthetic form that each component will take. My design methodology is heavily influenced by conceptual art strategies.