Curated by Andrew Blauvelt at the Walker Art Center, Strangely Familiar was an multidisciplinary design exhibition that featured work that challenged use, beauty, and functionality. Wrote a catalog essay entitled, "Just Re-Do it: Tactical Formlessness and Everyday Consumption."

"The great irony, of course, is that few fields possess a shorter memory than product design. Its by-products disappear from our lives in the blink of an eye and with little ceremony. Product design is like the fast-food of our built environment. It fills us up with dubious calories and then we come right back for more, with scant awareness of what we consumed just a few hours before. While most often aspiring to transcend the present, most design gets ingloriously dragged away by fashion’s cruel undertow. What is refreshing about the work considered here is that does not fight that current but flows downstream with it. It affirms the passing of fads, the perversity of fashion, and the righteousness of decay. Flow, flux, fluidity - these are the most powerful qualities of everyday life. By evading fixed form, such work opens a productive dialogue with the user, prompting uncontrollable acts of creativity and disfiguration. It is wise to the tactical habits of the everyday. We may consume everyday, but eventually, the everyday consumes us."