Hi! I’m Tanner.
The Mighty Type has grown over the years from a personal blog to an expanded website featuring a shop and my portfolio.
I grew up in the small farm town of Vernon, Texas before making the move to study architecture in upstate New York. Five years and a Bachelor of Architecture later, I relocated to Michigan and received my Master of Urban Design in 2022. I'm always writing, designing, and making; this is the best outlet to do and share what I love.
The Type is proudly queer + latine owned and operated, and we appreciate all of your early and continued support. Thank you!
Design
I design, write, create and collaborate.
With training and experience in architecture, urban design, and graphic design, I’m passionate about uncovering and expanding the potential roles design can play in forming built environments of belonging.
Some of my research interests include social infrastructure, spatial justice, queer theory, design methodology, and epistemology. I’m most inspired by the uncommon, irregular, or otherwise queer practices and approaches to design thinking.
I often draw upon my intersectional identities to translate ideas and find nuance across scales or contexts. My lived experience in both urban and rural contexts, as well as my ability to work and translate across the architectural and urban scales, informs much of my work, and I’ve found it to be one of my greatest strengths.
Each of these projects imagines the future of the design disciplines as inherently capable of enacting social justice through spatial transformation and methodological transgression. My work teases the potential of design as a tangible, flexible vector.
My design obsessions aim to expand the limits of process through irregular methodologies of hopeful inquiry. Threaded through each of these efforts is my design purpose.
ALL PROJECTS
Check below for an updated version of my edited design portfolio.
Tap the links below for project pages including abstracts, drawings, booklets, videos, and more.
2022
2021
2020
2019
flexform
the urban under
phytofields
2018
eter
ephemeral waters
architile
utopia
2017
home for the ex-implosion
riverside symbol
parallellospan
2016
coexistence
digital constructs I, II, III