A little more about me

My name is Catherine Headen-Carlucci.

I'm a designer based in Massachusetts, with twenty-five years across branding, web, UX, and accessibility. I founded Field Trip Central, I teach and speak on design as a civic act, and I serve as President of AIGA Boston.

That's the professional spine. The practice I care about most lives a little outside the client brief: generative and immersive pieces built in TouchDesigner, sound work I bring to the decks as a DJ, things I sew by hand, and a garden I'm slowly turning into a growing practice on my land. The through-line is attention. I'm interested in what happens when you slow a system down enough to watch it answer back; a circle that leaves a trail behind it, a room that shifts with the people standing in it, a plot of ground that listens to weather and animals before it listens to me.

What I keep returning to is patience as a material. A garden and a feedback loop have more in common than they look; both reward you for waiting and watching rather than forcing an outcome. I'd rather coax something into a space than install it there. The same instinct runs through the client work: I'd rather understand a problem all the way down than rush a tidy answer to the top.

If you're working on something and want a second set of eyes, I'm around.

Currently working as a design consultant and leading FieldTripCentral.com