Make.do. studio, formerly TALCr, is a southern-centric design team focused on uniquely experiential and conversation-starting projects. Make.do. is formed by architect Samuel Maddox and landscape architect Braxton Tanner who met while at Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design, and Construction six years ago and have since been collaborating ever since across multiple media, including landscape design, architecture, and performance art. As their name suggests, make.do concerns itself with how the elements of design—color, form, scale, space, et al.—can reveal under-considered aspects of our world and render them anew as topics of discussion, debate, and delight through built work.

Samuel is an architect, public artist, and design educator from Dothan, Alabama by way of Atlanta. His work has been published in Green Building & Design Magazine and exhibited at Harvard University and the Museum of Design Atlanta. In addition to architectural and academic work, Samuel has worked as a public artist for the city of Jacksonville and had the honor of being an artist-in-residence at for Nature, Art, Habitat Residency in the Taleggio Valley.

Braxton is a designer and artist that has spent time all over the Southeast during his lifetime. He is a graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Auburn University and has been the principal designer, project manager, and owner of his own interdisciplinary design studio located in Austin, Texas. In his work, Braxton strives to bring new meaning and context to people’s public experiences, engaging with both human and non-human communities, and bringing new questions to every day perceptions. His works have been featured in The East Austin Studio Tour and films produced by The University of Texas at Austin MFA program.