Conor has been building momentum in the design community since his admittance to College for Creative Studies. Having gained the knowledge and skill sets taught at CCS and applied them with his natural sense of curiosity and desire to improve through design, recent design works have shown success within the industrial design industry. Conor's design for MAT gained recognition from the Industrial Designer's Society of America, having been selected to be a finalist for the IDEA award. The Mechanical Advantage Tool is a gardening utensil that aims to help the disabled and elderly continue their hobby even when arthritis strikes. Designing to solve a large scale problem is always Conor's intention when putting pen to paper. 

To be able to put himself in these empathetic situations for design projects, Conor set forth a effort to begin the exploration and interaction with different cultures around the world in order to better understand the people around him. Living aboard provided new problems that design could solve. Whether it the interacted problem be a social, geographic, or living problem, they all provide great first hand information to pull and learn from.