Tom Adolphs
I am an educator, designer, photographer, and philosopher working across classrooms, design systems, and the responsible integration of AI into creative practices.
Fragmentation, digital photo manipulation, 2023
A connected practice
Welcome to my portfolio, a place where design, teaching, photography, philosophy, and systems thinking meet.
My work moves between questioning, planning, and creating, whether this be within visual systems, photographic series, classroom structures, and emerging tools that reshape creative practice. My hope is that this site displays those threads as one connected body of work.
Teaching
My courses, assignments, outcomes, and methods.
My teaching centers on step-by-step structure, guidance, experimentation, critique, and refinement.
I build assignments that help students connect concept, research, craft, audience, and storytelling.
Open Teaching
About + CV
My story and record.
The About page introduces who I am, how I work, what I teach, and how to connect with me. The CV holds the formal record of my academic history, exhibitions, publications, and professional work.
