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“Designer Dailies” is a regular column in which we follow a designer, artist, or shop owner around for one day.
Potter Lisa Jones wasn’t always holed up in ceramics studio. The owner and creative director of Pigeon Toe Ceramics actually started her professional life in graphic design and marketing before launching her much-loved company four years ago in Portland, Oregon. In today’s Designer Dailies, Jones takes us through a day of throwing pots, plus the thereafter.
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Textile designer Nancy Mims, who works out of her backyard studio in Austin, Texas, is the founder of healthy home fabric and wallpaper company Mod Green Pod. She takes us through her color-drenched world via a day's worth of gorgeous photos.
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This month’s Designer Dailies features Anita Modha and Jonathan Nodrick of ROLLOUT, the hip custom wallpaper company from Canada. Together, this dynamic duo works with tons of designers from all over the world to create one-of-a-kind patterns to adorn your sad, stark walls.
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Scott Dergance and Jonathan Coppin of Denver-based company Elemental Living design and manufacture modern furniture guided by eco-friendly principles. They provided us with a glimpse into a typical day of two guys making it on their own.
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You know Angela Adams from her rugs, which memorialize nature’s wondrous swirls in brightly-colored wool. These days she and her husband, furniture maker Sherwood Hamill, have been busy expanding the brand to include other home accessories, including bedding, tabletop, stationery, wallcoverings, and upholstered furniture.Let’s follow her for a typical day in the studio and on the waterfront in this month’s Designer Dailies.
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Australian textile designer Heather Keiko Noonan has a line of hand-crafted felt jewelry named Heather Keiko. Keiko sent us a glimpse of a day in the life of a busy jewelry-designing mom for this month’s Designer Dailies.
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For this week’s Designer Dailies, Australian designer Brodie Neill, who we love most for his ultra-contemporary lighting and seating, brings us through a jam packed day of travel, commerce, cuisine and culture. The day begins in London and ends in Copenhagen, while we go along with his taking in meetings, museums, and two of Denmark’s best cultural contributions — food and design.
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Markos Aristides Kern, known as VJ Mar-K.os, first started experimenting with live visuals at the age of 19 in his home town of Heidelberg, Germany. Mar-K.os and his crew from Visual Drugstore arrive at Maimarkthalle in Mannheim, Germany for Time Warp 2011. Are you ready for the action?
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Ilan Dei of Ilan Dei Studio gives us a sneak peek into a day in his life as principal designer of his own studio. Based in sunny SoCal, Ilan Dei designs everything from furniture to interiors in his signature edgy style.
After seven kids, multiple home renovations, and a TV show on Bravo, Robert and Cortney and the Novogratz clan are back once again to share their latest designs. Their new show on HGTV, Home by Novogratz, premieres this Saturday, July 16th at 10/9c. They’ve also recently launched their own paint line with Stark Paint. They graciously offered to share a hectic day in their life leading up to the premiere.
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Finn Stone, artist and designer of all things extraordinary, including those LEGO shoe sculptures that were so popular earlier this year, is sharing with us his day for Designer Dailies. During this particular day, Finn will build a new sculpture based on an earlier theme called Bear Necessity.
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Dino Sanchez is a New York City-based artist and designer. His background is in Industrial Design, but his work spans a number of creative outlets.
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I am very excited that Kevin Kolanowski, owner and designer of Fuse Lighting, is sharing his day with us. I’ve always wondered what it might be like for a designer-and-business-owner gearing up to launch new pieces and still juggle clients. Phew! This is quite a jam-packed day — check it out:
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Melinda Cox is a Massachusetts native who holds degrees in art history and graphic design. She founded BALANCED DESIGN, a design company using eco-friendly materials like organic fabrics and wool for area rugs, hand printed fabrics and handmade pillows in 2002. Let’s follow her around and see what’s she’s up to...
Sayeh Pezeshki is also the founder of Sortingwithstyle.com, by The Office Stylist™ a premier online retail destination for office style featuring hand selected chic office supplies and desk accessories to transform your working world. A day-on the go with The Office Stylist…
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Sara Selepouchin is owner of Girls Can Tell, Philadelphia-based creative illustration and screenprinting business. Most of Sara’s illustrations feature everyday items dissected in diagram format, ranging from the downright silly: like a cheeseburger and unicorn to the more serious and educational, such as your lungs. Let’s follow her around, shall we?
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Michelle Jennings Wiebe, ASID, is the President/Founder/Principal Designer of the premier interior design firm Studio M Inc., based in Tampa, Florida.
Laura Day is a New York City-based interior designer and entrepreneur, world traveler and veteran of TLC’s Trading Spaces. Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, Vogue, and Traditional Home. Her newest project is Laura Day Living, an experimental online magazine where Laura documents what she’s learned in the hopes to inspire others.
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Paula Smail is the owner of Henry Road, a textile design company that started out small but has quickly grown into a Los Angeles-based design studio and store. In this Designer Dailies, she takes us through a day in the life of a designer/shop owner.
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Asher Dunn, lead designer at Studio Dunn, was kind enough to let us peek in on a day in his life at Studio Dunn in Rhode Island. Let’s take a peek.
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This month, we are so excited to have our very first video Designer Daily, courtesy of Objeti.
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David Scott is Director, or “the brain” behind DESU Design, a Brooklyn-based furniture design company. David sent us one of his days while working the booth at the New York International Gift Fair, earlier this year. Let’s follow David around!
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Katie Deedy owns and operates Grow House Grow, located in Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by narrative, Grow House Grow creates hand-printed wallpaper with a story to tell. Her latest line, Naturalist Collection, is based on three little known female scientists from the 1800s. All of her patterns can be found at growhousegrow.com.
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Kingston Shaw is an Interior Design practice with offices in Liverpool, London and Dubai. They specialize in contemporary design in the residential, commercial and hospitality industries. For this Designer Daily, we will be following Annmarie, one of the Kingston Shaw Project Managers, as she navigates her way through a myriad of responsibilities.
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Jenny Beorkrem is the designer behind Ork Posters, those awesome city neighborhood posters you’ve been seeing everywhere. I have Philadelphia.
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Hufft Projects is an architecture and design studio located in Kansas City, Missouri dedicated to designing modern and sustainable buildings. They also run Make Studios, which fabricates anything from buildings to furniture and sculpture. We’re excited to have Matthew Hufft, owner of Hufft Projects sharing his day here on Designer Dailies (our very first architect)!
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Samantha Hirst is the artist behind Inklore, a block printed housewares and accessories company, based in San Jose, CA. Her work is all block printed and sewn by hand so you can be sure that what you are buying is unique, well-made, and has a story. In addition to managing the Inklore website, she also writes a journal that follows her work and the lifestyle blog, Good Measure.
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MOS My Own Space is a modern home furnishings store located in La Jolla, California. I’ve only peeked into their windows when they were closed, but now I’m glad to have gotten a tour of the shop and know the staff! Special thanks to Jennifer Armour for allowing us to follow her and the staff around.
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Jenny Poon runs eeko studio, an eco design and branding boutique. It began with one little idea — do something more. She is sharing a recent Saturday during the Green Build Conference in Phoenix.
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Carolynn Giordano runs Two Brunettes, a graphic design company based in Syracuse, New York where she designs custom stationery, invitations, and greeting cards. She also manages the company’s Etsy shop and a blog.
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You may or may not already have heard of Will Bryant, but he’s definitely an up-and-comer in the world of design and illustration. Plus he’s, like, totally hilarious. Just watch him on Erin’s Dialogue series; I guarantee you will fall in love. I was so happy he agreed to share his day with us.
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Emma Henderson started Showpony in 2006 to showcase her screen-printed home and personal accessories. Showpony consists of a website, 2 Etsy shops, and a blog, all owned and operated by Emma, a woman after my own heart. Let’s follow her around, shall we?
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We followed Ashley Schönknecht, designer at Dwell Magazine, from San Francisco to LA for the 2009 Dwell on Design conference, held June 26-28, 2009 at the LA Convention Center.
Artist and designer Amy Butler, is known for her down home — but never dowdy — textiles from organic bedding and wallpaper to luggage and bags to fabrics, threads, and patterns for the DIYer. For this week’s Designer Dailies Amy, David, and their 4 cats show us through their day.
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Nina Rosenblatt I really enjoyed this post. I'm a big fan of hers, she manages to design very marketable fabrics that are still interesting (and joyful). Great repeats and colors, she's really a master of the craft.
Elizabeth Ingram: Artist, Designer WOW! I need to look her up - designs look beautiful from here.
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Fiona Gray Loving all of your Designer Dailies. So interesting to see a peek into their lives! Working my way through them all!