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Jack Cian Boland

Designer. Engineer. Explorer.

During my undergraduate, while reflecting on an application for a cross-disciplinary fellowship, I tried to reconcile how I could find myself so equally interested in science and the arts, two seemingly competing disciplines. But what I ultimately realized was that they both satisfied my innate desire to explore. As science is the quest to understand the natural world around us, art is similar in its attempts to explore internally and understand the complexity of the human experience. What bound me to both of them was a insatiable curiosity and desire to explore.

You can read more about my process as a product designer here.

 
 
 

Other Adventures…

Mobile gardening. [Link to the video in my profile]
Heck of a year. From skiing in Japan, exploring Colombia and climbing in Mexico to backpacking in the Winds, Yosemite and High Sierra and mountain biking around the country, definitely did my best to live it to the fullest. Much to be thankful for. N
EPC really delivering on all the tacos, Tecates and bolted multi pitch routes that I was promised. Hard to beat that crew either.
Discovered lift access mountain biking today. Not sure I can go back to the pedal game.
I reckon there are worse places for the bus to breakdown.
A handful of the places we woke up in this week out on the east side of the Sierra. Heck of a week in the mountains with friends made perfect by an early summit of Mt. Whitney before heading back through Yosemite — It almost feels like cheatin
Mountain biking Saturday. Skiing Sunday. Climbing Monday. California living is good living.
Colombia.
Now offering amateur eye exams.
A good reminder of how quickly the backcountry can get real while attempting the traverse from Mt. Lincoln to Squaw in a white out this weekend.
The A Squad got called in to pitch at NASA today so we made sure we came prepared.
Ski, soak, sushi. Repeat.
They weren’t lying.
En piste ski chalet.
What’s less practical than owning a 40+ year old vehicle? Owning two... Aiming to start San Francisco’s largest collection of antique vehicles exclusively parked on the street. (Side note: still profoundly bad at surfing)
The Suffer Beer // A practice I have adopted of bringing an unnecessary can of beer out on a objective as a symbolic reminder to not take things too seriously (though that’s rarely at risk). Very much in that spirit, I finally ticked off the Gr
Last ride before the tapering begins.
Nothing better than backyard paella when you have a backyard like @linares_alvr