August 2011
6 posts
Judy Nelson
Judy Nelson lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she has the luxury of walking to work and enjoying the best bagels known to humankind. Formerly a music industry publicist, Judy discovered the design PR world and hasn’t looked back in over 3 years (especially since she gets to work with a slew of interesting and creative clients). She still misses her roots and thus happily dabbles in music...
Phil Toselli
Born with a bang in New York in 1976, but was quickly moved to Southern California. Stop. Raised on a steady diet of BMX bikes and skateboards. Stop. Involvement in these cultures led to a healthy obsession with art, design, music, and a do-it-yourself ethic of getting things done. Stop. (www.philtoselli.com)
Gabe Liedman
Gabe Liedman is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer. You may have seen him onstage live, read his columns on Videogum, heard him on “This American Life” or “WTF with Marc Maron,” or seen him on TV. You should really follow him on Twitter though, to see what he thinks about while sitting in chairs (http://twitter.com/gabeliedman).
Rayman Boozer
Rayman Boozer is an interior designer living and working in NYC. He is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied fashion and interior design. Upon graduating, Rayman made the move to NYC. It was there that Rayman quickly realized he had a penchant for home furnishings. After years of working for others (Bloomingdale’s, Saks, and Conran), he opened Apartment 48 in...
Rob Cristofaro
NYC-native Rob Cristofaro is the co-creative director and founder of Alife (http://www.alifenyc.com/). He entered the world of graffiti at the tender age of 14. Rob, AKA Jest, became a recognized figure within this subversive community, and graffiti became his gateway into the art world. Rob earned a BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts and went on to work for a fashion-trade...
Arnaud Delecolle
Arnaud Delecolle is the co-creative director and founder of Alife (http://www.alifenyc.com/). He was born in Lille, France, an industrial town in the northern part of the country, to a family of artistic merchants and footwear designers and manufacturers. At the age of eight, he moved to Brazil and later attended a Quaker boarding school in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has studied theater in Paris,...
July 2011
8 posts
Wimmer Hunter
When he’s not busting down walls in an extensive home renovation (http://www.redneckmodern.com), Hunter Wimmer can be found lending his talents and insights to academia as Associate Director of Academy of Art University’s Graphic Design Program (after a few stints at IDEO, Gap/Banana Republic and Oh Boy, A Design Company). He dreams of a world without double-spaces after punctuation...
Jonah Takagi
Born in Tokyo and raised in New England, Jonah received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. For several years, Jonah designed furniture that he built in a friend’s studio while he played bass guitar, touring and recording with several indie rock bands. Needing to develop and showcase a growing body of work that was filling his house but few had seen, Jonah...
John Solomine
Spike Press is Chicago-based illustrator and designer John Solimine. After cutting his teeth on screenprinted posters, John has gone on to work for such clients as American Express, The Chicago Tribune, and Nike, while earning recognition from Communication Arts and Print Magazine. His work can be found at www.spikepress.com.
Jeffrey Osborne
Jeff Osborne is a design and marketing consultant based in New York City specializing in international marketing, product design, interior design, merchandising and exhibitions.
Eric Hildebrandt
Eric Hildebrandt has been the Studio Proprietor at the Design Within Reach Potrero Studio for the past five years. In the decade prior to his current position, Eric was a graphic designer and publisher of an award-winning Seattle magazine. In the decade prior to that decade that he just wrote about, Eric destroyed his hearing at too many clubs, drank and smoked a lot and believed (albeit very...
Kirk Dianda
Director and Storyteller, Kirk Dianda is best known for his ability to intimately capture people and their story on film. With a passion for skateboarding, his first creative pursuit straight out of high school was 411VM, a skateboard video magazine. The success of 411, launched an industry of its own, producing films and videos, video game content, commercials, music and music videos, with Kirk...
Chris Brigham
Chris Brigham spent 11 years working as a graphic designer at design magazine ONE, Google and Factor Design, but he found himself striving to make more tangible objects by hand. He then decided to turn his garage into a work shop and start building. With that, Knife & Saw was born. Not having a formal education in furniture design, he learns a lot along the way, but almost always figures it...
Jim Bastardo
I moved to New York City to pursue my career after graduating from Brooks Institute of Photography. I’ve worked in editorial to commercial and a few places in between. Over the course of my career, what I’ve photographed, has taken me in various directions—but there has always been a couple of common denominators that allow me to explore any subject with the comfort of knowing that I will always...
April 2011
2 posts
Grasie Mercedes
Grasie Mercedes is an Actress & TV Host with a passion for Style. She loves to help empower men and women feel great about themselves through Fashion; believing it doesn’t have to be intimidating or scary. YES YES IT CAN BE FUN! :) Past TV credits include Southland, Criminal Minds, NCIS and All My Children. In the hosting world: E! News Now, Maxim Online and The Style Network. To learn...
Matt Allen
Matt Allen is a young designer with a passion for pop culture. Born and raised in the south, he studied Industrial Design at Georgia Tech before beginning at Coca-Cola - designing products which create and celebrate Coca-Cola brand love. He counts the 111 Navy Chair among the most exciting and challenging projects he’s worked on at Coke. With a deep appreciation for the past, Matt loves old...
March 2011
5 posts
Lara Deam
Lara Hedberg Deam conceived of Dwell after studying design and working closely with architect Bob Hatfield to complete her home. Her studies helped her define the architectural concepts she hoped to explore during the project and led her to the discovery that the typical shelter magazines were treating modern design as another style instead of a philosophy. Believing that an idea-based discussion...
Brady Clark
M. Brady Clark is a graphic & apparel designer living in Georgetown, Texas. He is a father of 2 awesome girls and the husband to an amazing woman. He shares his design studio with a 6 ft taxidermy shark named Guillermo and always has bacon on the mind. Visit him online at mbradyclark.com
Liz Kinmark
Liz Kinnmark is a product designer and entrepreneur based in Brooklyn, NY. Fresh out of art school, she co-founded the firm Design Glut. Known for housewares, jewelry, and accessories that tell stories with unexpected twists, the partnership quickly gathered a cult following. Our objects start conversations, cause you to crack a smile, and add something meaningful to your life. More info at...
Bradford Shellhammer
Bradford Shellhammer is a New York Times-featured decorator, Parsons-trained fashion designer and an old school blogger. In addition to contributing to the Sundance Channel and Dwell, he created the gay blog Queerty, is the co-founder and chief creative officer of Fab.com, and has launched retail businesses for Blu Dot and Design Within Reach. Bradford currently lives in New York City, where he...
Konstantin Grcic
Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England and studied design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since setting up his own practice Konstantin Grcic ndustrial Design (KGID) in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting for leading design companies. Many of his products have received international design awards (a.o. Compasso d’Oro 2001) and...
February 2011
2 posts
McKayla Sullivan
McKayla Sullivan is a high school senior with aspirations of becoming a photographer. She’s on the cusp of deciding which college to attend, but hopes to land in San Francisco or New York after 17 years in Orange County, California. She’s a big fan of modern design, and the 111 Navy Chair and Louis Ghost Chair by Philippe Starck are her favorite pieces. The Smiths are her favorite...
Laura Guido Clark
Laura Guido-Clark’s passion is to make the human response to products more meaningful though color, material, finish and pattern. Her work involves distilling the collective traces of the consumer consciousness into a thesis about their needs and unfulfilled desires, and figuring out what people really want and why, often before they even know it themselves.
January 2011
11 posts
JW & Melissa Buchanan
You can easily spot The Little Friends of Printmaking in a crowd – their inky hands and clothes are a dead giveaway. Their artwork is just as distinctive. Husband-and-wife team J.W. and Melissa Buchanan first made a name for themselves by designing and printing silkscreened concert posters, but soon branched out into further fields, designing fancy junk for whoever would pay them money. In...
Michael Antonia
Hi, I’m Michael Antoina. I throw a hell of a party. I have the cutest family there has ever been. I have the most talented group of friends of anyone I have ever met. I believe in form and function, but mostly form! You can learn more about me at theflashdance.com.
Tucker Viemeister
Tucker Viemeister is lab chief of Rockwell Group, where he has been instrumental in the design of JetBlue’s Marketplace at JFK International Airport, “Hall of Fragments” at the 2008 Venice Biennale, the new Cosmopolitan casino in Las Vegas, and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution truck. Viemeister helped establish Frog Design NY, Razorfish, Springtime-USA, and Smart Design (famous for Oxo Good Grips...
Vince Voron
Vince Voron leads Coca-Cola’s strategic integrated marketing design team. Responsible for the graphics, retail and industrial design vision for North America, his work spans design from conception through commercialization. His responsibilities include creating innovative and alluring touchpoints with the greatest number of consumer interactions per day – millions and millions –including...
Jason Miller
According to Fast Company, “Jason Miller’s Roll and Hill wants to be that all-too-rare thing: an accessible maker of American design.” Wallpaper magazine called the firm “an ambitious new lighting company started by Brooklyn designer Jason Miller, who was already a kind of patron saint for young American designers.” His ceramic Superordinate Antler Collection — an...
Peter Dixon
As senior partner and creative director of Prophet, Peter Dixon brings a unique blend of perspectives as an architect, designer and brand specialist. This translates into an imaginative take on identity, branding and design, expressed in both high-level thinking, visual and experiential representations. Dixon’s award-winning programs have spanned all areas of the brand experience, ranging from...
Anna Corpron & Sean Auyeung
Anna Corpron and Sean Auyeung are two architects/designers/artists living in New York City. They collaborate together under the name Sub-Studio, providing multifaceted design solutions to clients seeking a young yet sophisticated style. In addition to client work, they also have a product line featuring screen-printed note cards, journals and prints. Anna’s jewelry line Brevity draws from...
Eric Bricker
Filmmaker Eric Bricker made his directorial debut with Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman,” the award-winning documentary film about the life and work of the acclaimed photographer, narrated by Dustin Hoffman (juliusshulmanfilm.com). Bricker is currently working on his next project, What If…? How Geeks and Gamers Will Save the World, which consists of a feature-length film...
Zach Frechette
Zach Frechette is editor in chief of the award-winning GOOD, a collaboration of individuals, businesses and nonprofits driving change in the world. He recently led the transition of GOOD from an editorially led magazine to a community-based web platform at the intersection of creativity and impact. Read more at good.is and twitter.com/ztf.
Annie Choi
Annie Choi is the author of Happy Birthday or Whatever (HarperCollins) and her work has appeared in Abitare, Pidgin, Publisher’s Weekly and Women’s Health, among others. Her open letters about design and chairs can be found on Emeco’s website. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, where she...
Visual Narcotics (20mg)
In 1997, I moved to Los Angeles. I was completely inspired by the incredible art around the city. Near the end of 1998, I found an image of a Prozac pill that I blew up on a photocopier. I originally put the word “smile” underneath. But something was different about this image. It resonated with me in a way the other images had not. The pill had the dosage “20mg” written on it. I focused on that,...
December 2010
5 posts
Peter Kallen
An Oregon native, Peter Kallen is design director for Nau (pronounced “now”), a clothing company that makes sustainable urban and outdoor apparel for the modern mobile life. Previously, Kallen worked at Nike, had his own snowboard company, was owner/creator of an urban garden store, and launched a fashion brand in Japan under his own name. Not one to sit pretty for long, Kallen also...
James Victore
James Victore is a self-taught designer known for his brilliant and innovative design work. He is currently a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has won countless design awards including the Grand Prix from the Brno Biennele (Czech Republic). He is a popular lecturer around the world and has been the subject of many exhibitions—his most recent in New York’s Museum of...
Joel Petersen
Joel Petersen lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and plays bass and guitar in The Faint (thefaint.com) since 1995. He also creates music under the name Broken Spindles, which he began doing in 2001 on a soundtrack for a friend’s film and developed further in between touring with The Faint. On the design side, he just learned of the font Univers: “Who knew one could be impressed by a font?...
Carl Alviani
Carl Alviani carlalvani.com is a writer, editor and researcher at a design consultancy in Portland, Oregon called Ziba. He has a background in industrial design, education and engineering. Carl has lived and worked in Portland since 2006, and developed an interest in bicycles, beer, urban planning and seasonal produce, as Portlanders tend to.
Jaime Derringer
Jaime Derringer is founder and editor of modern design sites Design Milk (design-milk.com) and Dog Milk (dog-milk.com). Her flagship site, Design Milk, began as a collection of her favorite internet finds, and soon branched out beyond home decor to art, architecture, and technology. Dog Milk is Design Milk’s little sister that focuses on modern dog product design.
November 2010
6 posts
Nigel Barker
Photographer, filmmaker and America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker (nigelbarker.tv) attended the 111 Navy Chair party in New York. He recently released a new book, Nigel Barker’s Beauty Equation, which is inspired by his desire to “help us all see beauty by being beautiful ourselves.” He lives in New York with his wife Crissy and their progeny, Jack and Jasmine.
Reginald Baylor
When Reginald Baylor left University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh just shy of earning a degree in fine art, he was a long way from becoming the pop art sensation he is today. In fact, his professors were encouraging him to pursue a career in commercial art. Baylor spent a few years at the Laguna Beach Art Museum and Newport Beach Art Museum installing other more famous artists’ work. Then he moved his...
Kegan Fisher
Kegan Fisher is an artist and designer based in New York. She has a hard time when asked where she’s “from” – she moved around a lot as a kid and lived in many places – but St. Louis is the answer she usually settles on. After graduating from the Pratt Institute in 2007 with a BFA in Industrial Design, Fisher founded Design Glut (designglut.com), a design and manufacturing company that produces...
Jean Aw
Based in her hometown of Los Angeles, Jean Aw is a 20-something designer and the trendspotter behind NOTCOT.com, a network of informative and collaborative websites that doubles as a design consultancy. Aw often finds the most incredible things in the most unlikely of places and loves bringing them to her readers, often leaving them wondering whether the treasure was in their existence or in...
Jarrett Reynolds
Jarrettt Reynolds (jarrettsblog.com) had two choices of careers growing up in his family: a racecar driver or a fashion designer. Since he’s a wuss behind the wheel he chose fashion design and is now design director of Nike Sportswear apparel. Outside of work, Jarrett loves his active Oregonian life, his two Bengal cats, his wife and his newfound hobby of beading.
Amber B. Dianda
Australian-born, California-based Amber B. Dianda (amberbcreate.com) sews by night and shoots by day. She is best known for her imaginary world of hand-sewn plush creatures. Soft on the outside but with sinister emotions simmering beneath the surface, Dianda’s creatures provoke thought and interaction from all ages. She is also a photographer to the outside world, with an innate ability to...