Hello. My name is Craighton Berman. I've employed fueledbycoffee.com as a personal blog that chronicles my creative inspirations and conceptual explorations since early 2003.

I'm an industrial designer and creative director based in Chicago, Ill. I work for gravitytank, an innovation consulting firm, where I collaborate with teams of designers, strategists, and researchers to define future products, interactions, and experiences. My personal design practice, Craighton Berman Design, focuses onindependent design projects both conceptual and commercial. I'm also adjunct faculty at the Designed Objects program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I collaboratively contribute Core-toons for Core77 under the pen-name 'fueledbycoffee'. In the past I wrote a few urban-design articles for Gapers Block (1, 2). You can view my résumé, if you are into that sort of thing.

I regularly post photography and drawings on Flickr. I take notes on Twitter. My music consumption is tracked on Last.fm. I've been known to put video on Vimeo. I informally post links on Del.icio.us. I keep an Amazon wishlist.

My life is full of dualities. I'm always in a delicate balance between thinking/making, plans/opportunism, idealism/realism, curating/creating, optimism/cynicism & logic/emotion. I love experiencing the nuances of life, learning about the unknown, hearing good stories, bringing ideas to life, consuming consciously, being married to a chef, living car-free, eating great food, and daydreaming.

If anything you see on this site interests you in any way, feel free to email me at the above link with any comments, ideas for collaboration, and/or lucrative proposals.